legal

Common legal phrase. Lawful action, such as an agreement consciously agreed to by two or more entities, establishing lawful accountability. For example, an apartment lease legally binds the lessor and the lessee.

Full Steam Ahead for Massachusetts Data Privacy Bill
Full Steam Ahead for Massachusetts Data Privacy Bill
February 15, 2022  |  Regulation

Massachusetts residents are closer to having their privacy protected. This month, Beacon Hill lawmakers advanced an amended comprehensive data privacy bill, The National Law Review...

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Judge Orders Man Detained Until Trial in NY Crypto Laundering Case
Judge Orders Man Detained Until Trial in NY Crypto Laundering Case
February 14, 2022  |  Legal

A federal judge, Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, has ordered the pretrial detention for a defendant, Ilya Lichtenstein, arrested on conspiring to launder billions...

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Colorado Eyes Requiring Personal Data for Third-Party Sellers to Curb Fraud
Colorado Eyes Requiring Personal Data for Third-Party Sellers to Curb Fraud
February 14, 2022  |  Security & Fraud

Online shoppers are likely to find ‘mystery packages’ on Facebook Marketplace that are actually situations where the shopper pays for a box of unknown goods...

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Texas AG: Facebook Facial Recognition Violated State Law
Texas AG: Facebook Facial Recognition Violated State Law
February 14, 2022  |  Biometrics

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton on Monday (Feb. 14) filed a lawsuit against Facebook parent company Meta Platforms, saying the company’s now-discontinued use of facial...

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FinCEN Recovers $1.1B For Crime Victims
FinCEN Recovers $1.1B For Crime Victims
February 14, 2022  |  Fraud Attack

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has helped recover more than $1.1 billion over the last seven years for the victims of...

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Criminal Charges Against Deutsche Bank, Citigroup Dropped in Australian Banking Cartel Case
Criminal Charges Against Deutsche Bank, Citigroup Dropped in Australian Banking Cartel Case
February 11, 2022  |  Legal

Federal prosecutors on Friday (Feb. 11) dropped criminal charges against Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and four senior bankers related to a “significant cartel case” by the...

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Google Sues South Korea’s Regulator to Reverse Antitrust Fine
Google Sues South Korea’s Regulator to Reverse Antitrust Fine
February 11, 2022  |  ANTITRUST

Google is asking a judge to reverse the fine it received last year from South Korea’s competition regulator after the tech giant tried to force...

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Elevate Credit Ordered to Pay $3.3M for Predatory Lending Practices
Elevate Credit Ordered to Pay $3.3M for Predatory Lending Practices
February 10, 2022  |  Legal

Elevate Credit agreed to pay a minimum of $3.3 million for charging people interest rates above the 24% maximum allowed by Washington, D.C for loans...

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Meta Pledges to Remain in Europe
Meta Pledges to Remain in Europe
February 09, 2022  |  Meta

Meta says it’s “absolutely not” leaving Europe over European Union-U.S. data transfers, refuting reports in the press, according to a company blog post published Tuesday...

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