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April 21, 2026
Kemper Sued Over Hack Of More Than 13M Records
Kemper Corp. was hit with at least three proposed class actions Monday in Illinois federal court by former employees who alleged that the insurance giant failed to stop a preventable cyberattack led by the hacking group known as ShinyHunters last week that released more than 13 million records and their sensitive information on the dark web.
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April 21, 2026
Calif. Privacy Agency Seeks Input On Rules Over Worker Data
The California Privacy Protection Agency is seeking feedback on a range of topics to inform potential future regulations, including whether new rules are needed to regulate the use of employee and job applicants' personal data, and whether existing rules need to be updated to simplify potentially confusing privacy policies.
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April 21, 2026
Mass. Man Says Coinbase, Kraken Failed To Stop $500K Scam
Cryptocurrency platforms Coinbase and Kraken failed to adequately protect a Boston man from a sophisticated "support" scam that led to the loss of $500,000, according to a lawsuit filed in Massachusetts state court on Tuesday.
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April 20, 2026
Northwestern Escapes Event-Photos Biometric Suit, For Now
An Illinois federal judge tossed a proposed class action alleging Northwestern University's photographers capture and collect without permission the biometrics of people attending its events and then share the sensitive data with the SpotMyPhotos platform, but will allow the plaintiff to rework his complaint to provide more detailed allegations.
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April 20, 2026
Video Privacy Law Covers All Consumers, Supreme Court Told
A Paramount Global newsletter subscriber is pushing the U.S. Supreme Court to refrain from limiting the reach of the Video Privacy Protection Act to only consumers that directly subscribe to audiovisual goods and services, arguing that such a narrow application would require a rewrite of the decades-old statute.
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April 20, 2026
Google Privacy Intervention Attempt 'Too Late,' 9th Circ. Says
The Ninth Circuit on Monday upheld a California federal judge's decision refusing to let a group of 185 Chrome users intervene in a privacy class action accusing Google of improperly collecting and misusing data from users browsing in Incognito mode, saying the proposed intervenors were "too little, too late."
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April 20, 2026
Gov't Hopes Court Rescues FCC Fines. Here's What Amici Say
A rare U.S. Supreme Court showdown between the Big Three wireless carriers and their regulator takes place Tuesday, when the justices will put the Federal Communications Commission's authority to issue fines under a microscope.
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April 20, 2026
Reddit Defends Data-Scraping Claims Against Perplexity
Reddit Inc. is defending its case accusing Perplexity AI Inc. and three data-scraping companies of circumventing security measures to access copyrighted content in order to train the artificial intelligence startup's "answer engine."
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April 20, 2026
NFT Buyer Says Ex-Software Biz Orchestrated Token Rug Pull
A purported blockchain technology platform faces proposed class action allegations it made millions off a so-called rug pull, introducing a series of nonfungible tokens and teasing a cryptocurrency offering that never materialized, then selling those tokens into the artificial market it created and abandoning the platform.
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April 20, 2026
9th Circ. Open To Reviving FCRA Suit Against Wells Fargo
A Ninth Circuit panel appeared open Monday to reviving a proposed class action alleging Wells Fargo violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by pulling credit reports after fraudsters opened illegitimate accounts, with one judge expressing concerns the dismissal was "jumping the gun" and another judge criticizing the ruling as ambiguous.
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April 20, 2026
Legal Tech Co. Sued Over Immigration Software Breach
Legal professional services software firm 8am LLC, owner of MyCase and formerly known as AffiniPay, has been sued in Texas federal court over a data breach exposing sensitive data of more than 100,000 people in the DocketWise immigration case management platform.
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April 17, 2026
State Privacy & AI Watch: 4 Legislative Developments To Know
The state data privacy law landscape continues to grow, with Alabama becoming the latest to join the fray and Kentucky moving to expand the types of sensitive data covered by its existing statute, although one state's legislature that had been pushing to enact what would have been one of the strictest frameworks in the nation adjourned for the year without finishing.
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April 17, 2026
Security Camera Co. Tracks, Shares Website Activity, Suit Says
Home security camera company Wyze has been sued in Washington federal court for allegedly tracking and sharing the activity of people who visit its website with social media companies like TikTok and Meta, even if they reject all nonessential cookies.
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April 17, 2026
Up Next At High Court: SEC And FCC Enforcement Authority
The U.S. Supreme Court's final argument session of this term kicks off Monday, when the justices will consider the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's authority to seek disgorgement orders against alleged wrongdoers without proving investors were harmed. Here, Law360 breaks down the week's oral arguments.
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April 17, 2026
HyperSphere Beats Tech IP Suit, Falters On Sanctions Bid
Georgia-based cybersecurity firm HyperSphere Technologies Inc. on Friday escaped a suit alleging infringement of a developer's copyrighted software code but was denied a request for sanctions for having to defend itself from what it called a "frivolous" lawsuit.
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April 17, 2026
Property Manager Hit With OT, Face Scan Privacy Class Action
A proposed class action filed in Illinois federal court accuses a multifamily property management company of deliberately paying its employees less overtime by making them work off the clock and of using technology to collect their face scans without written consent.
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April 17, 2026
AI Health Co. Illegally Shared Genetic Data, Patients Say
A healthcare company powered by artificial intelligence violated Illinois' genetic privacy law and other consumer protection laws by compelling a genetic testing business it acquired to disclose patients' genetic information, which it then shared through data agreements with pharmaceutical giants such as Eli Lilly and AbbVie, a lawsuit in Illinois federal court says.
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April 17, 2026
EU, South Korea Officials Endorse Digital Trade Agreement
Trade officials from the European Union and South Korea agreed to the final text of an "ambitious" digital trade agreement between the countries Friday, setting the stage for it to be signed at a summit later this year, the European Commission said.
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April 16, 2026
Citizens Group Says 25 States Are Eyeing AI Chatbot Laws
Twenty-five U.S. states are looking at passing laws to make artificial intelligence companies face liability claims in civil suits if they fail to protect consumers who interact with chatbots, while another three states have already enacted protections, according to a citizens group's new legislative tracker.
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April 16, 2026
Yelp Seeks To Bind Google To DOJ's Search Monopoly Win
Yelp urged a California federal judge Wednesday to preclude Google from arguing in defense of antitrust claims that it is not a monopolist in the general search services market, saying the issue was already determined in the U.S. Department of Justice's landmark antitrust win over the search engine company.
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April 16, 2026
Ex-ByteDance Exec Fights Perjury Sanction At 9th Circ.
A former ByteDance executive urged the Ninth Circuit Thursday to revive a suit he filed against the TikTok owner after he was fired, saying the case should've been heard in state court and a federal judge had no jurisdiction to order terminating sanctions after finding he perjured himself.
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April 16, 2026
MoneyLion Hit With Wash. Class Action Over Referral Texts
A program from fintech platform MoneyLion encouraging users to refer friends to the service has flooded Washington residents with unsolicited text messages in violation of the state's Commercial Electronic Mail Act, alleges a putative class action removed to Seattle federal court Wednesday.
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April 16, 2026
OpenAI, Musk OK With Bifurcated Trial And Advisory Jury
Elon Musk, OpenAI and Microsoft agreed Thursday to a California federal judge's proposal to bifurcate the trial's liability phase from the remedies phase in a case challenging the artificial intelligence company's conversion to a for-profit entity, and that the jury for the liability phase should serve on an advisory basis.
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April 16, 2026
Meta, Uber Verdicts Top Product Liability Trials
This year has brought major courtroom setbacks for tech platforms and app companies. Juries issued headline-making verdicts against Meta and Google over claims their platforms harm young users, while Uber lost its first federal bellwether trial over driver assaults and now faces a second sexual assault case.
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April 16, 2026
Lemonade To Pay $10.5M In Driver's License Data Breach Suit
Lemonade will pay $10.5 million to settle with a proposed class of over 190,000 individuals who said the tech-forward insurer's online quote platform negligently disclosed their drivers' license numbers to cybercriminals, according to a preliminary approval motion filed Wednesday in New York federal court.
Expert Analysis
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Steps To Maintain War Insurance Amid Middle East Conflict
To ensure they are adequately protected from war-related risk, companies affected by the escalating conflict in the Persian Gulf should consider how their war insurance coverage interacts with financing structures, lease obligations and commercial risk allocation, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Recent Bank Resolution Filings Stress Readiness Over Docs
Against the backdrop of banking regulators' recent emphasis on institutional readiness in the event of a bank failure, a review of more than a dozen public resolution plan submissions points to an immediate future in which regulators and banks alike prioritize operational preparedness over extensive documentation, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen.
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Alpine Skiing Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Skiing has shaped habits I rely on daily as an attorney — focus, resilience and the ability to remain steady when circumstances shift rapidly — and influences the way I approach legal strategy, client counseling and teamwork, says Isaku Begert at Marshall Gerstein.
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Weighing The Practical Implications Of SC Kids' Privacy Law
South Carolina's recently enacted Age-Appropriate Code Design Act includes a unique provision: a private right of action for certain violations, but its practical effect remains uncertain, as courts and litigants grapple with complex questions of standing, causation and the definition of actionable harm, say attorneys at K&L Gates.
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AG Watch: Minn. Enters New Era Of Data Privacy Enforcement
Now that the Minnesota Attorney General's Office can bring enforcement actions for data privacy violations without providing 30-day notice, businesses operating in Minnesota, or those collecting data from Minnesota residents, should treat this moment as a call to action, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.
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Justices' Geofence Ruling May Test 4th Amendment's Future
When the U.S. Supreme Court decides in Chatrie v. U.S. whether law enforcement may use geofence warrants to compel Google to disclose location history data, the ruling is likely to become an important statement about the future of Fourth Amendment law in data-driven investigations, says Duncan Levin at Levin & Associates.
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Legal Theories In Social Media Verdicts Hold Clues On Impact
Although the two verdicts in cases in New Mexico and California involving Meta and Google are being lumped together, they rest on fundamentally different legal theories, and that distinction determines how their effects may be felt in other jurisdictions, says Mark Morgan at Day Pitney.
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AI Recruiting Suit Shows Old Laws May Implicate New Tools
The Fair Credit Reporting Act allegations recently filed in Kistler v. Eightfold AI, are the latest example of broad definitional language in legacy statutes proving far more dangerous to companies deploying artificial intelligence – particularly in hiring – than any purpose-built artificial intelligence regulation, say attorneys at Ogletree.
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A Check-Up On HHS' Push To Implement AI Infrastructure
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has made some headway in its efforts to implement artificial intelligence across its agencies, but will have to overcome a number of near-term tests in order to be successful, says Theodore Thompson at Stinson.
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What A Court Doc Audit Reveals About Erroneous Filings
My audit of 1,522 court documents from last month found that over 95% contained at least one verifiable error, with fewer than 1% showing clear indicators of artificial intelligence use — highlighting above all else that lawyers may want to focus most on strengthening their review processes, says Elliott Ash at ETH Zurich.
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How Cos. Can Navigate The Patchwork Of AI Safety Bills
In the first few months of 2026, state and federal lawmakers introduced hundreds of bills to address the perceived safety risks of artificial intelligence, so companies should assess whether existing or planned services could be scoped into AI safety legislation across jurisdictions, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.
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Unpacking FCC's Proposed Rules For Offshore Call Centers
The Federal Communications Commission recently proposed rules that would restrict the use of offshore customer service operations, citing consumer frustration, data security risks and fraud as core reasons for the sweeping regulatory move, say attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland.
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Ultramarathons Make Me A Better Lawyer
Completing a 100-mile ultramarathon was tougher, more humbling and more rewarding than I ever imagined, and the experience highlighted how long-distance running has sharpened my ability to adapt to the evolving nature of antitrust law and strengthened my resolve to handle demanding, unforeseen challenges, says Dan Oakes at Axinn.
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When AI Puffery Becomes Actionable Securities Fraud
Though courts usually hold that vague but optimistic corporate statements don’t constitute securities fraud, signs suggest that investors may give enough economic weight to references to artificial intelligence in public company disclosures that broad feel-good statements could cross into actionable misrepresentation, says Christine Polek at Keystone Strategy.
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In First For DOJ, Action Signals New CFIUS Enforcement Era
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking judicial enforcement of a divestment order, an unprecedented action for the agency that ushers in a new phase for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, one in which judicial proceedings complement administrative oversight and presidential divestment orders may be enforced through litigation, says attorney Sohan Dasgupta.