Facebook knows that your business may be experiencing disruptions resulting from the global outbreak of COVID-19. They are offering $100M in cash grants and ad credits to help during this challenging time. This program can help keep your workforce going strong, help with your rent costs, connect with...

SAN FRANCISCO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a petition in the San Francisco Superior Court Wednesday requesting the court order Facebook Inc. to comply with an outstanding subpoena and investigative interrogatories issued by the AG on behalf of the People of California on June...

SACRAMENTO – A landmark California law that will alter the way internet giants like Google and Facebook collect and deploy user data has survived heavy lobbying from industry groups and is set to take effect in January with most of its major consumer privacy protections intact. In the final days of...

The California Consumer Privacy Act takes effect Jan. 1, 2020, with major implications for a raft of businesses who collect, store, trade and sell personal information. Three data privacy lawyers discussed the nuances and myths associated with the landmark new law during a comprehensive discussion Wednesday...

By Dan McCue (CN) — Facebook’s stock shed $119 billion in market value Thursday, the company’s worst trading day since going public in 2012, and among the biggest one-day losses of market value by any company in U.S. stock market history. The loss came a day after Facebook revealed that its user...

By Derek Fleming SACRAMENTO – With little time to spare before a Friday deadline, California lawmakers passed and Gov. Jerry Brown signed on Thursday the strongest protections of consumer data in the nation. Assembly Bill 375, or the California Consumer Privacy Act, passed both sides of the statehouse...

A bipartisan coalition of 37 Attorneys General, including Xavier Becerra of California, sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today calling for answers to reports that millions of Facebook users’ personal data was provided to third parties without their knowledge or informed consent. In the...

Washington D.C. – Business leaders, artists and entertainers, elected officials representing 32 states, and more than 250 companies and nonprofit partners (to date) are teaming up with “I Am An Immigrant” to honor Immigrant Heritage Month. The nationwide effort to gather and share the inspirational...

Animal-loving Facebook groups are rallying to help save a homeless woman’s gravely injured cat by donating toward the cost of her surgery. Read the full story [here].

[KHTS] – A student from Placerita Junior High School who was arrested in March for allegedly making threats on Facebook will be going to trial, according to the District Attorney’s office. The 13-year-old student allegedly threatened to bring guns to the school, a sheriff’s spokesman said. He...