Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by Katarina Overberg
Will Hackers Use Your Own AI Against You?
Most businesses now have artificial intelligence (AI) inside their systems whether or not they ever decided to adopt it. It arrived with a software update. It sits in your email, your document library, your chat platform and your customer records, waiting to be asked a question. Businesses have spent years asking what AI can do for their employees. Fewer have asked what it would do for an intruder inside an employee’s account.
Know the Law: What are the risks of using AI with business data?
By Katarina Overberg QUESTION: Can my business safely use AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, or Claude with customer or employee information? ANSWER: Not without guardrails. These tools can boost efficiency, but using them with business data — especially personal or confidential information — creates significant legal risk and requires appropriate safeguards. Once information is entered into an AI tool, data disclosure risk is immediate.
$2.75 Million Record Settlement With Disney And California DOJ
Katarina C. Overberg’s articles from McLane Middleton, Professional Association are most popular: within Privacy topic(s) in United States McLane Middleton, Professional Association are most popular: with readers working within the Environment & Waste Management industries Published: New Hampshire Business Review March 2, 2026 Disney found out you can't just wish upon a star and make compliance obligations disappear.
$2.75M record settlement with Disney and California DOJ
Disney found out you can't just wish upon a star and make compliance obligations disappear. On February 11, 2026, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the largest enforcement settlement under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), resolving claims that The Walt Disney Company failed to adequately honor consumers' opt-out rights - a core tenet of modern privacy law.
From Roombas To Regulators: Privacy Consequences In The Wake Of IRobot's Bankruptcy
McLane Middleton, Professional Association are most popular: with readers working within the Environment & Waste Management industries Published: New Hampshire Bar News February 18, 2026 In mid-December 2025, iRobot announced it was filing a prepackaged Chapter 11 petition in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
A Hole in the Net: Massachusetts’s Six-Figure Penalty for Failure to Spot Phish | JD Supra
Massachusetts recently joined a growing number of states pursuing data privacy enforcement actions, announcing a $795,000 settlement with Peabody Properties, Inc., a Massachusetts-based firm. The property company oversees more than 200 residential properties, including housing for veterans and seniors. The Attorney General’s Office accused Peabody Properties of multiple data security failures that compromised the personal information of nearly 14,000 residents.
Follow the Breadcrumbs: Where Does Consumer Data Go as 23andMe Goes Bankrupt? | JD Supra
23andMe, a pioneer in the DNA testing kit industry, announced that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and recently asked to select an independent customer data representative regarding any sale of user data. Its bankruptcy raises issues about data privacy and what companies must do to protect that data for the benefit of their customers and to protect themselves from litigation or violations of US and international privacy laws.
Season of Enforcement: OCR Announces Its Sixth Enforcement Action of 2025 | JD Supra
With apologies to Santa: You better mind risk (analysis). You shouldn’t deny (access). You better keep out those baddies who spy (with ransomware). OCR is going to town! With 2025 barely three weeks old, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has already announced six enforcement actions for the new year.
President Biden’s Executive Order on AI: Bringing Law to the New Frontier | JD Supra
After considerable anticipation and speculation, President Biden recently issued an Executive Order (EO) on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.
President Biden’s Executive Order on AI: Bringing Law to the New Frontier
After considerable anticipation and speculation, President Biden recently issued an Executive Order (EO) on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.
Coming Soon? The American Data Privacy and Protection Act (SPOILERS) | JD Supra
January 26, 2023 To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Sure, America has the Grand Canyon, baseball, and apple pie, but you know what it doesn’t have? A nationwide data protection law. Instead, data protection has been left up to a pastiche of state laws, regulations, and enforcement actions that demand many companies choose one state law to rule them all.
Coming Soon? The American Data Privacy and Protection Act (SPOILERS)
Sure, America has the Grand Canyon, baseball, and apple pie, but you know what it doesn’t have? A nationwide data protection law. Instead, data protection has been left up to a pastiche of state laws, regulations, and enforcement actions that demand many companies choose one state law to rule them all. California led the pack, being the first to pass a data protection law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, going into effect January 1, 2020.
Coming Soon? The American Data Privacy and Protection Act (SPOILERS)
Sure, America has the Grand Canyon, baseball, and apple pie, but you know what it doesn’t have? A nationwide data protection law. Instead, data protection has been left up to a pastiche of state laws, regulations, and enforcement actions that demand many companies choose one state law to rule them all. California led the pack, being the first to pass a data protection law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, going into effect January 1, 2020.
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with Katarina
Contact Katarina, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack