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On February 27, 2026, the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CalPrivacy”) issued an order (the “Order”) requiring a sports-focused media and technology company (the “Company”) to pay a $1.10 million administrative fine for violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). The action continues California regulators’ scrutiny of how companies deploy cookies, softw...


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On February 25, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued an enforcement policy statement announcing that the Commission will not bring enforcement actions under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) Rule against operators of general audience sites and services and mixed audience sites and services that collect, use, or disclose personal information f...


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Two months after the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) updated its Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”), which we wrote about here, NYDFS has released updated FAQs on multifactor authentication (“MFA”) that further clarify 23 NYCRR § 500.12.  As we previously reported, the FAQs from December 2025 provided prescriptive guidance, including clarifications o...


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Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) recently reported that cybercriminals—in particular, state-sponsored threat actors from North Korea, Iran, China, and Russia—are misusing Gemini, Google’s large language model (LLM), to support all stages of their attack lifecycle. Specifically, GTIG observed threat actors using Gemini to code and script tasks, accelerate reconnaissance...


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Almost two years after seeking stakeholder input about a final rule under the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced that it will hold virtual town hall meetings for certain industry sectors in March and April 2026 to solicit additional input on the Notice […]

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