The Federal Trade Commission’s decision to tackle online privacy opens a new area of conflict for Chair Lina Khan, bringing the agency under fresh fire from conservatives who argue that Congress is better-suited to draft data-security rules.

The town of Cicero, Ill., and two paramedics escaped a lawsuit by a man who claims that they posted pictures of his severed arm without permission, after a federal judge in Illinois ruled Thursday that although the man wants to keep his amputation secret, it’s not private medical information.

A Wendy’s Co. shareholder lost his bid to appeal a district court’s approval of a settlement with the fast-food giant over claims that the board and executives didn’t uphold their fiduciary duties following a 2015 data breach of its payment card system.

Financial technology companies could face unfair practices claims from the CFPB for failing to adequately to guard consumers’ personal financial data, the agency said.

California’s first Latina state Supreme Court justice could be the next chief justice with Gov. Gavin Newsom announcing Wednesday he was nominating Associate Justice Patricia Guerrero to the post.

Old Navy LLC secretly deployed “keystroke monitoring” software to intercept and monitor the keystrokes and mouse clicks of all visitors to its website, according to a proposed class action filed in federal court in California.