According to statements by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the People’s Republic of China-backed (PRC) hacking group Salt Typhoon, which attacked telecommunications providers last month, is still infiltrating the providers and it is “impossible for us to predict
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Public Urged to Encrypt Mobile Phone Messaging and Calls
On December 4, 2024, four of the five members of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing group (the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand) law enforcement and cyber security agencies (Agencies) published a joint guide for network engineers, defenders of communications
FTC Settles with Companies Over Sale of Sensitive Data
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been on a mission to communicate its seriousness about companies collecting, using, and selling consumers’ sensitive location data and that it is closely watching these practices.
On December 3, 2024, the FTC announced that
Second FTC AI Facial Recognition Case Against Company for Making False and Misleading Statements about Software
This week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a proposed consent order to settle allegations against IntelliVision Technologies Corp. (IntelliVision) for making false, misleading, and unsubstantiated claims that its artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition software, was free of gender and
CFPB Issues Proposed Rule to Restrict Data Brokers’ Use of Data
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced this week that it intends to increase the scrutiny on data brokers to better protect service members, law enforcement officials, domestic violence victims, senior citizens, and other populations from surveillance, doxing, fraud, and
Predicting Date of Death with Artificial Intelligence
*This post was authored by Daniel Lass, law clerk at Robinson+Cole. Daniel is not admitted to practice law.
Launched in July 2024, Death Clock is an application that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to predict when its users will die.
Privacy Tip #423 – FTC Files Complaint Against Mobilewalla for Selling Consumers’ Precise Location Data
Many people do not understand how their geolocation data can be collected and used about them, or how massive the amount of precise location data collected from our devices.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently filed a complaint against Mobilewalla
EPA Releases PFAS Strategic Roadmap Third Annual Report
As the Biden-Harris administration draws to a close, EPA has issued its third annual report touting the progress made under the PFAS Strategic Roadmap.
In the report, EPA notes the major legal, technical, and policy developments it has enacted
OIG Audit Scrutinizes Hospital Compliance with Price Transparency Rule
*This post was co-authored by Paul Palma, legal intern at Robinson+Cole. Paul is not admitted to practice law.
In November 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published the results of its audit assessing
CMS Finalizes Standard for Identifying Overpayments and Grace Period for Investigations of Related Overpayments
As part of its 2025 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule (PFS Rule), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized two crucial updates to federal Medicare overpayments regulations (sometimes referred to as the “60-Day Rule”) that (1)