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Apple Seeks to Drop Its Lawsuit Against Spyware Maker NSO
Apple wants its three-year-old lawsuit against spyware maker NSO to be dismissed, citing the surveillance software maker's declining dominance of the expanding market and fears that its own threat intelligence could be ...
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Google, Microsoft, Others Support U.S.-Based Spyware Lawsuits
Microsoft and Google were joined by LinkedIn, GitHub, and Trend Micro in a supporting an appeal of a lawsuit against spyware maker NSO Group that was tossed by a U.S. judge who ...
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Citizen Lab vs. NSO Group, Apple AI and Privacy
Tom Eston | | AI, Apple, Apple AI, Apple Intelligence, canada, Citizen Lab, court, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Human Rights, Information Security, Infosec, lawsuit, NSO Group, Pegasus, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, security, spyware, technology, Weekly Edition
In episode 334, hosts Tom Eston, Scott Wright, and Kevin Johnson discuss two major topics. First, they explore the ongoing legal battle between Citizen Lab and the Israeli spyware company NSO Group ...

Lawsuits After Ransomware on the Rise, Comparitech Says
More ransomware cases are getting settled out of court. That should speed up the process and lower the settlement costs ...
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Apple Suit Underscores Privacy Regulation Pressure
A lawsuit recently filed against Apple for violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act underscores not only that regulators are serious about holding companies to privacy strictures but also that companies that ...
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Dunkin’ Donuts Will Pay Over Half a Million Dollar Fine After Data Breach Lawsuit
Alina Bizga | | credential stuffing, cyberattack, Data breach, Digital Privacy, Dunkin Donuts, Industry News, lawsuit
Dunkin Donuts has agreed to pay $650,000 as penalty settlement costs for the lawsuit over its failure to respond to credential stuffing attacks that compromised customer accounts between 2015 and 2019. What ...

No Trespassing: Facebook Sues for Data Scraping
On June 18, Facebook filed a civil lawsuit in a federal court in San Francisco against online mobile platform Massroot8 for “scraping” data about Facebook users in violation of both Facebook’s Terms ...
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Facebook Privacy Tracking Lawsuit Can Continue, Court Says
Everyone knows that when you use a social media site such as Facebook, the website is collecting information about you. I’m not sure whether, even with privacy settings set, that people know ...
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Maine Suit Challenges Privacy Regulation on First Amendment Grounds
Mark Rasch | | browser hisory, first amendment, lawsuit, Marketing, personal data, privacy laws, Supreme Court
When it comes to First Amendment free speech rights, the Supreme Court has sided mostly with consumers. Will that change with a Maine case? In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down ...
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SIM Swap Crypto Lawsuit Goes Forward in Los Angeles
Mark Rasch | | Fraud, Identity Theft, lawsuit, Mobile Security, Privacy Policy, SIM swapping, Terms of Service
Can AT&T be held liable for identity theft resulting from SIM swapping? In June 2017, Michael Terpin, a prominent cryptocurrency trader from Puerto Rico, turned on his cell phone and found it ...
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