person

Brett A. Shumate

American lawyer who is Assistant Attorney General for the US Justice Department's Civil Division.

Current clusters

security5 publishers

TikTok's $400M settlement puts a price on the parental deletion request nobody actioned

The DoJ split the payment, holding a quarter of it against the removal of a legacy consent decree, and credited TikTok's later fixes without discounting the bill for the earlier ones.

Publishers:bleepingcomputer.comscworld.comsecurityaffairs.comsecurityweek.comthehackernews.com

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers

Builder: Builder 23%
Operator: Operator 55%
Investor: Investor 22%

Reality

Evidence66
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+15
Incentives55
Confidence70

invest2 publishers

US asks the EU's General Court to let it fight X's 120 million euro fine on corporate-veil grounds

Washington has applied to join X's and Elon Musk's EU court challenges to their 120 million euro Digital Services Act fine. Its case turns on whose turnover the Commission may count, a question the Justice Department says reaches large platforms with US parents.

Publishers:justice.govmorningstar.com

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+30
Incentives80
Confidence60