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TikTok Sale-or-Ban Law Spurs Promise of Legal Fight: Explained

President Joe Biden signed into law a bill this week that requires Chinese ByteDance Ltd., TikTok Inc.‘s parent company, to sell the app in less than a year or face a ban in the US. The action sets up a likely legal battle between the app—which has vowed to fight the policy in court—and the US government.

IRS Leak Leaves Rich Taxpayers Frustrated With Few Legal Options

Wealthy taxpayers who learned in recent weeks that their data was stolen in a widespread breach years ago are hesitating to sue the IRS because the damages they’d get in a win are so small.

GM, LexisNexis Sued for Sharing Drivers’ Data With Insurers

General Motors LLC, OnStar LLC, and LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc. collected and shared data about the driving behavior of consumers with insurance companies without their consent in violation of federal and state privacy laws, a proposed federal class action said Friday.

Zimmerman Reed Loses Mass-Arbitration Effort Against L’Occitane

Zimmerman Reed LLP won a battle but lost the war in its effort to force L’Occitane Inc. to arbitrate 3,144 individual privacy claims brought by the law firm’s clients over the cosmetics firm’s alleged sharing of their information with Google Inc. and other third parties.

UnitedHealth CEO Faces Congress Scrutiny Over Ransomware Hack

UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s top executive this week will defend his company’s response to a cyberattack that held up payments across the US health care system, testifying before Congress as lawmakers push for new industry cybersecurity standards and more scrutiny of consolidation among insurers.

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Billion-Dollar Hack Places UnitedHealth Under the Microscope

When a cyberattack on Change Healthcare paralyzed much of the US health-care system, some lawmakers saw it as proof its parent company, <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/UNH%20US%20Equity","_id":"0000018f-2984-d583-afbf-ebdc1ee30001","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">UnitedHealth Group Inc., was too big.

UnitedHealth CEO Faces Congress Scrutiny Over Ransomware Hack

UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s top executive this week will defend his company’s response to a cyberattack that held up payments across the US health care system, testifying before Congress as lawmakers push for new industry cybersecurity standards and more scrutiny of consolidation among insurers.

Canada’s London Drugs Shuts Pharmacies After Cyber Incident

Pharmacy chain <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/7578660Z%20CN%20Equity","_id":"0000018f-295c-d583-afbf-ebdc9daf0000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">London Drugs Ltd. shut dozens of stores in western Canada on Sunday following a cyber incident.

TikTok, ByteDance US General Counsel Andersen to Exit Role

<-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-219c-d583-afbf-e3dcacb50000","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Erich Andersen, the US-based general counsel for TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance Ltd., is stepping down from that role, the social media app said.

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