The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) demand for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) applicant and recipient data from the states "display[s] the height of contempt" for the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), said a coalition of stakeholders in a court document Friday.

Though two cases involving the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) of 1988 have petitions for writ of certiorari pending at the U.S. Supreme Court, the high court should review the cases separately, said plaintiff Michael Salazar in a court document Tuesday. In Salazar v. NBA, the basketball league wants a decision from the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals reviewed, arguing that the court unfairly expanded the scope of the VPPA in its decision (see 2503190047).

A federal judge dismissed several claims against Chinese technology company ByteDance, including that it violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). But in the Friday ruling, U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois Judge Georgia Alexakis allowed a claim ByteDance violated the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), as well as the restitution and unjust enrichment claim against the company, to continue in the privacy case.

A case alleging the NHL violated the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by using Facebook's Meta tracking pixel on its website without user knowledge or consent should be dismissed, U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Moses said Friday. Moses argued that the plaintiffs failed to state a claim under the statute in case 1:23-cv-02083, Zachary Joiner vs. NHL.

The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals scheduled oral argument on NetChoice's challenge of a Utah age-verification law for Nov. 20 at 9 a.m. MT.

A coalition of states fired back against the federal government's request that a court dismiss a privacy case against it Thursday, arguing that the lawsuit remains necessary to protect against the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) accessing sensitive state data.

Parents who allege Google's education products secretly harvest mass amounts of student information and data without knowledge or consent continued hurling accusations at the technology giant.

Attorney General Letitia James (D) and the National Retail Federation (NRF) continue to fight over whether a New York law requiring that retailers disclose when they are using algorithmic pricing is a violation of the First Amendment. In court documents filed Thursday, James emphasized the Algorithmic Disclosure Act doesn't halt algorithmic pricing, but requires that companies post a clear notice informing consumers if a price was set by an algorithm using personal data.

The as-applied challenges and vagueness challenge in NetChoice's amended complaint in a case against a Tennessee age-verification law should be dismissed, argued Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti Tuesday. In case 3:24-cv-01191, NetChoice argued the statute violates the First Amendment and other privacy measures (see 2501170070), but the U.S. District Court for Middle Tennessee declined to preliminarily enjoin HB-1891 in June (see 2506200017).

An Ohio law requiring websites targeting children younger than 18 to obtain parental consent before engaging in contracts with minors is not a violation of the First Amendment, said a bipartisan coalition of 31 states plus the District of Columbia in a joint amicus brief to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday. Later that day, South Carolina filed a document joining the coalition in asking the court to reverse a district court's 2024 decision to block the law (see 2402130041).