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June 15, 2026
Over a dozen parents and their daughters sued a Pennsylvania private school and several unnamed artificial intelligence companies in federal court Monday, alleging the school sat by as male students used artificial intelligence to generate hundreds of sexually explicit "deepfake" images of at least 59 minor female students.
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June 15, 2026
TikTok is violating Florida's restrictions on social media use and engaging in deceptive business practices by allowing young users unfettered access to the platform and failing to inform consumers about the short-form video app's allegedly addictive nature and "large amounts" of inappropriate content, the state's attorney general alleged in a lawsuit announced Monday.
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June 15, 2026
Investor Amy Griffin hit back Monday at accusations lodged by a childhood acquaintance that the author "lifted" memories of a middle school sexual assault and used them in her bestselling memoir, "The Tell," telling a California state judge the privacy claims fail under the state's anti-SLAPP law.
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June 15, 2026
The Ninth Circuit must undo a lower court's ruling that killed an antitrust suit brought by Facebook users after the district court judge found the novel theory propping up the suit held no water, the users have said, and that Facebook's parent company cannot defend the lower court's "usurpation of the jury's role."
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June 15, 2026
A California federal judge on Monday tossed a proposed class action alleging Disney and YouTube allowed advertisers to illegally collect minors' personal information, saying the plaintiffs failed to list any specific videos they viewed that led to the improper collection of their data, but allowed them leave to amend the complaint.
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June 15, 2026
Genetic testing company Invitae Corp. has been hit with proposed class privacy claims by an Illinois parent who says the company unlawfully disclosed its patients' genetic information to LabCorp after the laboratory testing giant bought Invitae out of bankruptcy.
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June 15, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Monday asked the Texas attorney general to respond to a bid by a tech industry group and a student advocacy group seeking to reinstate an order blocking a Texas law that requires app store owners to verify users' ages and block minors from downloading apps without parental consent.
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June 15, 2026
The U.S. Treasury Department's financial crime unit is moving to encourage greater industry collaboration against scams and fraud, issuing new guidance that clarifies banks can share real-time alerts and other, broader data with one another under a key liability safe harbor.
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June 15, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a petition from former Trump 2016 campaign associate Carter Page to revive his lawsuit against former top FBI officials for allegedly violating his privacy rights as part of the agency's investigation into potential Russian election interference.
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June 15, 2026
President Donald Trump pushed back on a group of former federal judges' claim that the settlement closing his $10 billion suit against the IRS was a result of fraud against a Florida federal court, attacking their motion to reopen the suit as "baseless" and legally dubious.
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June 12, 2026
States are continuing to keep the heat on how companies are using a wide range of consumer data and artificial intelligence models, with Connecticut enacting new laws in both arenas and one Midwest locale eyeing what could become the nation's most stringent AI auditing rules.
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June 12, 2026
Google sued a Chinese cybercrime operation in New York federal court Friday, alleging the group has created "plug-and-play" phishing software that uses Google's Gemini and other artificial intelligence tools to help scammers quickly build scam websites, which have already been used to defraud over 100,000 victims.
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June 12, 2026
A Washington resident accused insurer Wellpoint Washington Inc. and health services provider Independent Clinics of Washington of failing to adequately protect patient information from a June 2025 cyberattack, claiming in a proposed nationwide class action Thursday that Wellpoint also neglected to inform subscribers until nearly a year after the breach.
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June 12, 2026
All providers downstream of SK Teleco will be required to block its traffic after the telecom failed to convince the FCC that it shouldn't be stripped of its right to operate on U.S. networks following the transmission of millions of scam calls impersonating Walmart employees.
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June 12, 2026
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has again found that a Centripetal Networks cybersecurity patent that was part of a since-vacated multibillion-dollar judgment against Cisco Systems is invalid as obvious, after the Federal Circuit ordered the board to rethink an earlier invalidity ruling.
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June 12, 2026
A Chinese national was sentenced in California federal court Friday to one year and one day in prison for conspiring to unlawfully export to China computer chips used in artificial intelligence applications, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.
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June 12, 2026
The Second Circuit on Friday upheld Sam Bankman-Fried's conviction and an $11 billion forfeiture order in an opinion that found the ex-CEO's claims that he could have made FTX customers whole didn't matter in the face of the government's "robust" evidence of his role in the fraud that felled the cryptocurrency exchange.
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June 12, 2026
AutoNation permanently beat a proposed class action on Thursday, alleging it used third-party software to illegally record and transcribe customer service phone calls, after a California federal judge found he lacked personal jurisdiction over the automotive retailer, since its activities were not directed to California customers or tailored to the California market.
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June 12, 2026
A Florida federal judge has shut down an Orlando firm's bid to get a cut of a pending settlement in a suit alleging Google LLC and a chatbot company caused a teen's suicide, rejecting the firm's "demonstrably untrue" statement supporting its bid.
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June 12, 2026
As The Washington Post's print subscriptions declined and many readers moved online, the company has betrayed readers' loyalty by harvesting their personal information to determine how much more they might tolerate paying to renew their subscriptions, according to a proposed class action filed in Washington, D.C.
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June 12, 2026
The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania sued U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Pennsylvania federal court on Friday, saying they failed to respond to a records request seeking copies of subpoenas for the identities of anonymous social media users who criticized the agencies.
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June 12, 2026
Google and OpenAI employees told a California federal court that autonomous lethal weapons systems used without human oversight pose several risks, backing rival artificial intelligence company Anthropic's bid to show the government acted arbitrarily in determining Anthropic posed national security risks.
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June 12, 2026
After enlisting a crew of experienced attorneys, defendants charged in an insider trading case allegedly involving deal information stolen from huge law firms are preparing to use a strategy that could take some cues from the "Varsity Blues" case in the same Boston courthouse.
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June 12, 2026
A putative class action filed Thursday in Illinois federal court claims that Motorola Solutions operates a nationwide network of license plate recognition cameras and surveillance software that allows law enforcement agencies to track drivers' movements without their consent and in violation of their privacy rights.
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June 12, 2026
A Virginia federal court judge ordered the federal government Friday to submit in writing that it won't create a $1.8 billion payment fund to settle President Donald Trump's tax leak suit against the Internal Revenue Service.