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A member of Kaiser Permanente, an integrated managed care consortium headquartered in Oakland, California, has asked a federal judge in Seattle to certify nationwide classes and California subclasses in a privacy lawsuit against Microsoft and Qualtrics over tracking technologies allegedly embedded in Kaiser’s website and patient portal. The plaintiff, identified as Jane Doe, claims that…

A federal judge has ruled that CNN must face a proposed class action alleging that its website shared consumers’ personal information with Microsoft and adtech firms without consent, in alleged violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). The lawsuit challenges CNN’s alleged use of online tracking tools and the downstream sharing of data in the digital advertising ecosystem. 

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A class action complaint filed in the Northern District of California on October 17, 2025, alleges that entertainment and arcade franchise Dave & Buster’s Entertainment Inc., misled website visitors about users’ ability to reject cookies and tracking technologies. The lawsuit, brought by two California residents, claims that the Dave & Buster’s website continued to place…

On October 9, 2025, the Northern District of California denied Mashable, Inc.’s motion to dismiss a class action alleging violations of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). Mashable operates a digital news and entertainment website that publishes articles and multimedia content online. The plaintiff alleged that Mashable disclosed the IP addresses and device identifiers…

Microsoft has confirmed that vulnerabilities in its on-premises SharePoint Server installations, a network spoofing vulnerability (CVE-202549706), and a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-49704) are being actively exploited despite releasing an emergency patch on July 20, 2025. The vulnerabilities allow threat actors to “execute code remotely, bypass identity protections such as multi-factor authentication and access system…

A Microsoft blog post reported that incident response researchers uncovered a remote access trojan in November 2024 (dubbed StilachiRAT) that “demonstrates sophisticated techniques to evade detection, persist in the target environment, and exfiltrate sensitive data.” 

According to Microsoft, the StilachiRAT threat actors use different methods to steal information from the victim, including credentials stored in…

Thomson Reuters scored a major victory in one of the first cases dealing with the legality of using copyrighted data to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. In 2020, Thomson Reuters sued the now-defunct AI start-up Ross Intelligence for alleged improper use of Thomson Reuters materials, including case headnotes in its Westlaw search engine, to train…