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A team from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips rebuffed a would-be class action by people who got unwanted dirty text messages from a phone sex provider.

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California's utility regulators last month fined Uber Technologies Inc. subsidiary Rasier-CA LLC $7.6 million for failing to submit operations records on time last year.

The lead singer of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven has filed a proposed class action against Spotify that accuses the music streaming service of an 'egregious, continuous and ongoing campaign of deliberate copyright infringement.'

In 2011, a 23-year-old student of data privacy law wondered how private his data was. Max ?Schrems of the University of Vienna asked Facebook for everything they had on him. Schrems sent two emails and got no response. A letter. No response. A phone call. No response. Then, as his lawyer, Wolfram Proksch of PFR in Austria, tells the story, ?Schrems received a mystery package in the mail with the data he had requested, perhaps from a secret privacy sympathizer at Facebook.

A casino operator's recent lawsuit against an IT security firm it hired to investigate a data breach could pave the way for similar lawsuits to be brought by clients dissatisfied with the quality of IT security contractors' work.

Cybersecurity and an increase in data breaches isn't merely a U.S. problem. On Dec. 21, the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC), a self-regulatory organization that helps oversee the country's trading industry, released two guides to help investment dealers protect themselves and their clients against cyber attack.

In 2016, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will remain focused on assessing cybersecurity efforts by investment adviseors and broker-dealers.

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A recent ruling from the United States District Court for the Western District of New York applied New York law in rejecting an insurer's attempt to deny coverage. Here's an analysis of the case.