Until California’s legislature provides clearer guardrails, companies should expect continued class action activity under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), targeting common website tracking technologies. Plaintiffs’ firms are actively testing how far this decades-old statute extends in the modern web environment, and courts have not reached a consensus. That uncertainty creates real litigation risk…

In January, the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Office of the Chief Information Security Officer issued a new procedural guide, CIO-IT Security-21-112 Rev. 1, that sets expectations for protecting Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) when it resides in nonfederal contractor systems. Although the document is internal guidance, it creates an approval framework that may soon determine…

California resident Nathaniel Bee filed a lawsuit this week alleging that the ATP Tour’s website used third-party tracking technology that captured details on how visitors interacted with the site, including what content they viewed; how they navigated the website; and what type of device they used, without user consent in violation of the California Invasion…

Security researchers at Huntress Labs have identified a vulnerability in SolarWinds’s Web Help Desk that threat actors are exploiting to allow them to execute code remotely.

The vulnerability was listed on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s known exploited vulnerabilities last week, and SolarWinds issued a warning, classifying it as a “critical severity” for users…

On January 27, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) signaled the agency’s reduced appetite for regulating artificial intelligence. At the Privacy State of the Union Conference in Washington, DC, FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection Director Chris Mufarrige stated there is “no appetite for anything AI-related” in the FTC’s rulemaking pipeline, while adding that the agency…

It’s that time of the year when W2s and 1099s pile up in preparation for that dreaded tax return filing deadline. Now that everyone is using AI tools to assist with complicated tasks,  as they seem to make any task, even the most dreaded, more efficient, it is tempting to use one to assist with…

In a strongly worded order, Judge Julie A. Robinson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas publicly admonished and sanctioned four lawyers representing a plaintiff company in a patent infringement case for using ChatGPT to find caselaw to support a response to a motion to exclude an expert witness, and a response…