LA Assistant DA Charged With Using Confidential Police Files
A Los Angeles County Assistant District Attorney was charged on Wednesday with 11 felony counts alleging she repeatedly accessed confidential sheriff’s deputy files without permission.
The 10 biggest lobbying entities this year, including the US Chamber of Commerce and Meta Platforms Inc., spent a combined $90 million to influence the federal government on tax, technology, and health care policy.
For TikTok, the clock has started running in its existential fight to avoid a US ban. Legislation requiring the social media app’s Chinese owners to divest sailed through Congress, capped by Senate passage late Tuesday as part of a larger foreign-aid package. President Joe Biden plans to sign it Wednesday — beginning a 270-day countdown for a sale or a US prohibition of the popular video-sharing platform.
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Google delayed its plan to phase out cookies, software that lets marketers track users, in its Chrome browser this year, pushing to 2025 a move that will ultimately transform how advertisements are targeted on websites.
Georgia teens under 16 will need a parent or guardian’s permission to use social media under a law signed Tuesday by Gov. Brian Kemp (R).
A Los Angeles County Assistant District Attorney was charged on Wednesday with 11 felony counts alleging she repeatedly accessed confidential sheriff’s deputy files without permission.
Connecticut is closer to becoming the first state to make private companies consider the risks of the artificial intelligence products they sell to customers.
Lawyers are seeking $217 million in fees for their work crafting a settlement this month in a class action lawsuit alleging Alphabet Inc.'s Google improperly retained users’ web data while they used a private browsing setting.
Ameritas Mutual Holding Co. would pay up to $850,000 to settle a proposed class action alleging it failed to protect the personal information of 95,644 current and former policy holders during a May 2019 data breach, under a deal given initial approval by a federal court.
New abortion protections from the Biden administration are likely to draw lawsuits from state attorneys general and physicians as the Justice Department continues to face legal fights over reproductive services.
Threats of data breaches and cyber-attacks keep chief legal officers and general counsels up at night—even if they don’t directly oversee security at their companies.
Lawyers are seeking $217 million in fees for their work crafting a settlement this month in a class action lawsuit alleging Alphabet Inc.'s Google improperly retained users’ web data while they used a private browsing setting.
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Derek Smith Law Group PLLC was properly sanctioned with an order to pay an opposing party’s $81,439 in attorneys’ fees, a federal appeals court said Wednesday.
General Motors Co.'s legal chief, Craig Glidden, earned $11.3 million in 2023, according to a GM proxy statement released by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Morris Nichols Arsht Tunnell, a boutique firm based in Wilmington, Delaware, is boosting salaries for first-year associates to $210,000 as it seeks to better compete for talent.
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