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A Collection of Moves in the Cybersecurity and Privacy Practice Areas

Anthem Inc., the nation's second largest health insurer, has taken its first swing at narrowing litigation stemming from a major data breach affecting about 80 million customers.

Facebook Inc. won an appeal on Oct. 30 over the company's use of minors' names and likenesses in its "social ads" program.

Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. will pay up to $8 million, including $3.5 million in attorney fees, to settle claims tied to the infamous 2014 hacking scandal, according to proposed terms filed last month in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Be ready and act fast. That's the advice a panel on cybersecurity attacks at the Association of Corporate Counsel's annual meeting last month told in-house lawyers.

Last month, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a crucial law with groundbreaking implications for privacy, the Internet and free speech. Sacramento's adoption of the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act, also known as CalECPA, makes California the largest state to adopt digital privacy protections including both the content of messages and location data.

As digital natives, millennials have a major stake in how information is stored and protected by the organizations they share it with. But despite having contributed a vast amount of data to the global ecosystem (in some cases since before they could walk), it turns out that members of Gen Y feel that businesses and government organizations fail to meet their expectations when is comes cybersecurity.

Known around the world as as 'crypto-currency,' Bitcoin officially has a justice group behind it that hopes to turn around the digital currency's conflicted reputation in the market ' and ultimately ward off criminals from making off with digital ransom.