Skye Witley

Digital education company edX LLC didn’t receive consent before sharing students’ private video data with Meta Platforms Inc. in violation of federal privacy law, according to a proposed class action filed in federal Massachusetts court.

US companies can start using a new mechanism to digitally transfer consumers’ personal data from the United Kingdom without taking extra protective steps as a revamped compliance framework takes effect on Thursday.

A federal judge appeared unconvinced and at points confused by the Montana government’s reasonfor a statewide ban of TikTok Inc., during a Thursday hearing addressing the company’s request to stop the ban from coming into effect.

A widely employed online tracking tool is creating headaches for in-house counsel, with decades-old laws being revived to litigate individual privacy battles and regulators homing in on new commercial surveillance norms.

Publicly traded companies are adjusting their cybersecurity posture in response to a financial sector regulatory update that casts general counsels in a crucial role when responding to data breaches and other system attacks.

Michigan Supreme Court justices pressed a local government to justify using warrentless drone surveillance to enforce its zoning code as it grapples with contentions from residents that officials violated their constitutional privacy rights.

Personal Touch Holding Corp., a home health and hospice services provider, was ordered to pay $350,000 in penalties to New York for their lax security standards resulting in two data breaches of personal and health information, state Attorney General Letitia James announced Wednesday.

A new US notification requirement for victims of malicious hacks could push in-house counsel to disclose cyberattacks when faced with ransomware and other network compromises.

More than 100 survivors of sexual abuse by clergy of the Catholic Church asked a Connecticut federal judge for final approval of their $6.5 million settlement with a bankruptcy services firm that mistakenly revealed their identities online.

The title-by-title framework reveals more detail about how House Agriculture Chairman GT Thompson (R-Pa.) plans to fund key nutrition and conservation programs that have divided political parties.