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Plaid agrees to pay $58M in data privacy class action lawsuit

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Plaid Inc agreed to settle a class action lawsuit for $58 million on Thursday after six months of negotiation and mediation between the parties’ representatives. ” The company will also ensure that users of apps like Venmo understand that Plaid will receive their data.

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SCOTUS unanimously backs NRA on First Amendment ruling

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The Supreme Court decided Thursday that government officials cannot indirectly suppress free speech through coercion, reinforcing their previous decision in Bantam Books, Inc. Justice Sotomayor expanded on the decision in Bantam Books, Inc., Justice Sotomayor expanded on the decision in Bantam Books, Inc.,

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Former Apple engineer pleads guilty to stealing self-driving car trade secrets

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Former Apple Inc. engineer Xiaolang Zhang pleaded guilty Monday to theft of trade secrets from the company’s self-driving vehicle program. According to an affidavit that Apple filed, the company learned that Zhang went to work for XPeng Motors, a startup at the time involved in electric vehicles and autonomous vehicle technology.

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Australia finds Uber violated privacy laws, rewarded cyber criminals

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The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has found that Uber Technologies, Inc. Australians need assurance that they are protected by the Privacy Act when they provide personal information to a company, even if it is transferred overseas within the corporate group. violated the privacy of an estimated 1.2

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Shadow IT: A Serious Threat to Law Firms

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Leading research company Gartner defines shadow IT as IT devices, software and services (including cloud services) outside the ownership or control of the IT department of a business. In a June 2021 study by security company Hysolate, the authors stressed what seems inevitable from the data cited above. So let’s start there.

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Protect Your Electronic Contact List From Prying Eyes

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then the lawyer may not consent to share contacts with a smartphone app unless the lawyer concludes that no human being will view that confidential information, and that the information will not be sold or transferred to additional third parties, without the client’s consent.”. So, if companies can get your data, they will. Our advice?

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Three Noteworthy Trends from SEC’s Latest Enforcement Push

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By announcing a slew of charges for the same violations all at once (or in quick succession), the agency communicates to companies that the allegations of misconduct aren’t isolated incidents. For example, in announcing charges of accounting fraud against a former executive at CIRCOR International Inc. , Only time will tell.

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