The Commercial Electronic Mail Act (CEMA) is a Washington State law that prohibits sending state residents a commercial email misrepresenting the sender’s identity. A commercial email promotes real property, goods, or services…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection
Identity theft will continue to rise in 2025. According to the Better Business Bureau of Missouri (BBB), it received over 16,000 identity theft complaints in the past three years. Scammers are “increasingly using advanced…
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/ Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Becker’s Hospital Review reports that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) “has access to sensitive information in 19 HHS databases and systems,” according to a court filing obtained by Wired. HHS provided the…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, Privacy
Unfortunately, identity theft continues to increase, and according to Identitytheft.org, the statistics are going to get worse in 2025. Some of the statistics cited by Identitytheft.org include:
1.4 million complaints of…
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/ Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on April 22, 2025, that it has approved a settlement entered into a Final Order with accessiBe, which claimed its plug-in product, accessWidget, “can make any website compliant with…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Consumer Protection, Science, Computers, & Technology
I have been getting a lot of texts that are clearly scams, and those around me have confirmed an increase in spammy texts.
According to an FTC Consumer Protection Data Spotlight, individuals lost over $470 million resulting…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy
SentinelOne researchers have discovered AkiraBot, which is used to target small- to medium-sized company websites with generative AI, and drafted outreach messages for website chats, comments, and contact forms. SentinelOne…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced on April 10, 2025, that it has settled alleged HIPAA Security Rule violations with Northeast Radiology for $350,000…
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/ Health, Privacy
Video game developer Ubisoft, Inc. came out on top earlier this month in the Northern District of California when a judge dismissed, with prejudice, a class action claiming that the company’s use of third-party website pixels…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
In a big win for businesses, a California federal court just held that a “tester” plaintiff—someone who visits websites to initiate litigation—cannot bring a claim under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). Rodriguez…
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/ Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
BleepingComputer has confirmed the rumor that Oracle has suffered a compromise affecting its legacy environment, including the compromise of old customer credentials (originally denied by Oracle). Oracle notified some affected…
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/ Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
On March 31, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO 14254) titled “Combating Unfair Practices in the Live Entertainment Market.” EO 14254 directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to, amongst other provisions,…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Consumer Protection
Yahoo’s ConnectID is a cookieless identity solution that allows advertisers and publishers to personalize, measure, and perform ad campaigns by leveraging first-party data and 1-to-1 consumer relationships. ConnectID uses…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy
Wired has reported that several government officials involved in the Signal chat exposing sensitive national security plans have also exposed their Venmo accounts by not adjusting their account privacy settings to prohibit the…
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/ Elections & Politics, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
WhatsApp users should update the application for vulnerability CVE-2025-30401, which Meta recently patched when WhatsApp was released for Windows version 2.2450.6…
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