Maria Dinzeo
Senior Data Privacy and Security Reporter at MLex Market Insight
Data privacy and security reporter @mlexclusive. Previously @lawdotcom @CourthouseNews
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mlex.com | Maria Dinzeo
By Maria Dinzeo ( June 26, 2025, 00:39 GMT | Insight) -- Google is seeking to bar jurors from hearing what it calls irrelevant or highly prejudicial evidence and testimony — and to split an upcoming privacy trial into two phases — in a high-stakes case that could expose the company to billions in damages and reshape how it tracks user activity through apps.
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mlex.com | Maria Dinzeo
By Maria Dinzeo ( June 24, 2025, 22:28 GMT | Insight) -- A US federal judge suppressed statements made by a former Google engineer accused of stealing AI trade secrets after finding that FBI agents violated his Miranda rights during a pre-dawn interrogation.
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mlex.com | Maria Dinzeo
By Maria Dinzeo ( June 21, 2025, 01:03 GMT | Insight) -- A US judge is weighing whether 23andMe can sell its trove of consumer genetic data to a nonprofit led by its former chief executive, after a marathon hearing in which lawyers for Texas and California argued the deal would flout state privacy laws requiring explicit consent.The fate of 23andMe’s bankruptcy sale to a nonprofit led by its former CEO now rests with a US federal judge following the close of a multi-day hearing where...
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mlex.com | Maria Dinzeo
By Maria Dinzeo ( June 17, 2025, 21:16 GMT | Insight) -- TikTok must face claims it misled users about specific safety features on its app, an Oregon state court judge ruled, though he dismissed broader allegations targeting the company’s content moderation practices.TikTok’s content moderation practices are shielded by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, an Oregon state court judge ruled, but it will have to face state consumer protection claims that it misled users about specific...
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2 weeks ago |
mlex.com | Maria Dinzeo
By Maria Dinzeo ( June 11, 2025, 22:24 GMT | Insight) -- At a hearing today, a federal appeals court weighed whether it was fair for Google to settle a major location-tracking privacy lawsuit by sending $42 million to digital rights organizations and universities instead of compensating the 247 million mobile users whose movements were allegedly tracked without consent — even if those users would have received no more than 25 cents apiece.If Google were to distribute $42 million set aside for...
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