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Reddit Fights Proskauer's 'Hot Potato' AI Client Bid In IP Suit
Reddit Inc. has urged a New York federal judge to block its former law firm Proskauer Rose from defending Perplexity AI in Reddit's suit over alleged data scraping used to train artificial intelligence models, arguing the firm can't represent Perplexity after dropping Reddit as a client like a "hot potato."
Data Sale In Spirit Bankruptcy Raises Novel Privacy Risks
Spirit Airlines' planned sale of deidentified business data to Google for artificial intelligence training exposes gaps in the Bankruptcy Code's privacy guardrails, particularly for employee information, say attorneys at Patterson Belknap.
GOP Texts Not Intrusive Enough For Privacy Suit
A Pennsylvania federal judge has permanently tossed a man's proposed class action accusing the National Republican Congressional Committee of spamming him with texts asking for donations, saying he could have taken several FCC-approved steps to stop them himself.
High Court Won't Review Student's Suit Over Phone Search
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied certiorari to a teenager who alleges his constitutional rights were violated when his school principal searched his phone on suspicion that he had nude photos of another student.
Anthropic Says Claude Gave False Murder Tip To Philly Cops
Anthropic on Friday disclosed a series of incidents in which its Claude artificial intelligence tool went rogue, particularly in interactions with federal and local government websites, including an incident in which it submitted a false tip about an unsolved homicide to the Philadelphia Police Department.
FBI Portal Hack Sharpens Focus On Cyber Regulation Path
The recent hack of the FBI's jobs portal underscores mounting cyberthreats to government agencies and critical infrastructure, fueling the debate over whether internal fixes or formal regulation can best address the growing cyber risks powered by artificial intelligence.
DOJ Seeks To Pause Order Blocking Demand For Driver Data
The Justice Department is asking a Virginia federal judge to pause his injunction barring the Trump administration from obtaining millions of commercial driver's license records from a nationwide database while it appeals the ruling, claiming that the district court likely lacked jurisdiction to hear the lawsuit in the first place.
DOJ Aims To 'Attack Fraud From All Angles' Via New Division
The U.S. Department of Justice's new fraud division has issued fresh guidance on its prosecution methodology, with the division's head directing prosecutors to seize assets before indictments and pursue upward variances in sentencing guidelines in some cases as part of a stated push to use the division's "full arsenal of criminal statutes" in combating fraud.
College Students' Data Privacy Suit Mostly Survives Toss Bid
A Pennsylvania federal judge has trimmed a New Jersey state claim from community college students' privacy lawsuit alleging a business software company failed to safeguard personal information from a data breach, allowing the bulk of the suit to proceed.
DOJ Policy Checking Voters' Immigration Status Banned
A D.C. federal judge has struck down the U.S. Department of Justice's new policy of collecting states' unredacted voter information to cross-check voter rolls against immigration databases, saying federal voting laws the agency relied on were meant to protect the right to vote and not take it away.
9th Circ. Says AmeriBen Data Breach Enough To Allege Injury
The Ninth Circuit on Friday revived a proposed data breach class action alleging health plan administrator AmeriBen unlawfully revealed patients' information, ruling the disclosures were enough to sustain a lawsuit even if the underlying information might seem "mundane."
FCC Aims To Boost Mexico, Canada Telecom Border Security
The Federal Communications Commission will vote on proposed new rules that would strengthen border security by improving transparency and disclosures for communications across the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada borders.
Apple Faces Trimmed Down BIPA Trial Over Faceprint Claims
An Illinois federal judge has ruled Apple must face a jury over claims its Photos app unlawfully collects Illinois users' faceprints, rejecting the company's argument that encryption shields it from liability under the state's biometric privacy law but scrapping claims over cropped facial images.
Squire Patton, Holland & Knight Report Data Breaches
Squire Patton Boggs LLP and Holland & Knight LLP were hit with cyberattacks exposing sensitive information, according to disclosures filed this week.
Fighting Class Cert. In Wash. False Email Promo Cases
Retailers facing a recent wave of class actions alleging their email promotions violated the Washington Commercial Electronic Mail Act may be able to demonstrate that sending individualized, customer-specific messages produced experiences too diverse to be adjudicated on a classwide basis, say attorneys at Benesch.
Up Next At High Court: Criminal Sentences & Video Privacy
The U.S. Supreme Court will close out its October sitting by hearing oral arguments in two cases that ask what level of deference federal district courts should give to commentary interpreting the federal sentencing guidelines, and what purchases are protected under a video consumer privacy statute.
Cybercrime Laundering Leader Pleads Guilty In $10M Scheme
A Ukrainian-Russian dual citizen pleaded guilty in North Carolina federal court to helping run an international money laundering organization that recruited more than 15,000 U.S. residents to transfer money stolen by hackers, federal prosecutors said.
Pa. Odd Fellows Lodge Can't Take Over Philly Charity
The Pennsylvania leaders of the International Order of Odd Fellows can't take over a Philadelphia charity that a local lodge had organized 140 years ago, since amendments to the charity's charter and bylaws giving the "Grand Lodge" control had not followed the original charter or state law, an appellate panel has ruled.
Calif. Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q3
California's financial regulators spent the third quarter of 2026 focusing on consumer protection enforcement at home while resisting federal efforts to displace state oversight — reinforcing the state's intention to shape the compliance landscape for institutions operating within its borders despite federal deregulatory trends, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
SpaceXAI's Grok Sued For Breaking Ill. Law With Face Scans
The Grok chatbot operated by Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is illegally collecting and storing the biometric data of users who upload photos of their faces to generate edited images, according to a proposed class action filed in Illinois federal court.
Wash. Justices Say Privacy Act Doesn't Bar Hospital Pixel Use
The Washington State Supreme Court said Thursday the state's privacy act does not prohibit Seattle Children's Hospital from using web analytics tool Meta Pixel on its public-facing website, rejecting a group of parents' allegations that their browsing and search activity was illegally intercepted and sent to the Facebook parent company.
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