Erin Moore and Matthew Verdin of Covington and Burling write: Plaintiffs’ lawyers have continued to bring privacy claims targeting businesses that use vendors to help provide beneficial chat features on their website, as we last reported here. Late last year, a Southern District of California judge dismissed another set of privacy claims challenging the routine use…
DOJ Announces 90-Day Grace Period for Companies to Comply with New Data Security Rules on Foreign Adversary Access to U.S. Sensitive Data
Townsend L. Bourne of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP writes: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)’s new data security rule went into effect April 8, 2025. The rule creates what are effectively export controls and requires companies to take measures to prevent U.S. sensitive personal and government-related data from falling into the hands of…
FCC Asked to Eliminate Cyber, Privacy Rules in ‘Delete, Delete, Delete’ Proceeding, (Apr 15, 2025)
Lynn Stanton reports: Stakeholders are seeking the elimination of a broad swath of FCC rules they argue are unnecessary and harmful to competition, deployment, and innovation, including some related to cybersecurity, privacy, and data breach reporting. Parties were responding to a public notice in GN docket 25-133, the FCC’s broad “delete, delete, delete” deregulatory proceeding…
Judge Blocks Cities From Defending HHS Abortion Privacy Rule
Ian Lopez reports: A federal judge in Texas shot down a request from two liberal cities and a physician group to defend a Biden administration abortion rule in a lawsuit should the Trump administration drop out of the case. Doctors for America and the cities of Madison, Wis., and Columbus, Ohio, “fail to demonstrate a…