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Trump to Impose Metal Tariffs on Monday, Followed by Broader Levies
The president said he planned sweeping tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports on Monday and would take other action to even out tariff rates with the rest of the world later this week.
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36 Hours After Russell Vought Took Over Consumer Bureau, He Shut Its Operations
The agency had been one of Wall Street’s most feared regulators, with the power to issue rules on mortgages, credit cards, student loans and other areas affecting Americans’ financial lives.
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Trump’s Blueprint for Bending the Media Has Nixon Written All Over It
The president’s heavy-handed approach to traditional journalists has the hallmarks of an attempted crackdown 50 years ago.
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Sharing Bank Accounts Can Deepen a Couple’s Relationship
Fewer couples are combining their bank accounts. But that trend may not promote partners’ overall financial health, experts say.
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How GoFundMe Became a $250 Million Lifeline After the L.A. Fires
Donations on the crowdfunding site to people and fire relief efforts have exceeded those for all natural disasters worldwide last year.
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Privacy Tip #430 – GrubHub Confirms Security Incident Through Third Party Vendor
If you are a GrubHub customer, read carefully. The app has confirmed a security incident involving a third-party vendor that allowed an unauthorized threat actor to access user contact information, including some customer names, email addresses, telephone numbers, and partial payment information for a subset of campus diners….By: Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider
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It’s Been Two Weeks and We Have a 2025 Crypto Compendium
The volume of news coming out from regulatory Washington, spurred by Executive Orders and new agency heads has been impressive since Trump took office on January 20. But, the amount of movement regarding regulation of crypto and crypto-related activities has truly been substantial. And so, in this week’s Cabinet News & Views, we have multiple…
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The SEC’s Crypto Task Force: Mapping the Road Ahead
In a statement entitled “The Journey Begins,” on February 4, 2025, US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or the “Commission”) Commissioner Hester Peirce provided new details regarding her thoughts on the agency’s evolving position on crypto. Commissioner Peirce is leading the SEC’s new Crypto Task Force (the “Task Force”), which she described as “want[ing] to…
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Nation State Backed Groups Using AI for Malicious Purposes
The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) recently published a new report “Adversarial Misuse of Generative AI,” which is well worth the read. The report shares findings on how government-backed threat actors use and misuse the Gemini web application….By: Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider
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DeepSeek AI’s Security Woes + Impersonations: What You Need to Know
Soon after the Chinese generative artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek emerged to compete with ChatGPT and Gemini, it was forced offline when “large-scale malicious attacks” targeted its servers. Speculation points to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack….By: Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider
