TikTok submitted a motion to dismiss a lawsuit that New York state brought against it in a memorandum on Wednesday in a case alleging violation of consumer protection and product-liability laws. TikTok based its motion to dismiss on the grounds that the plaintiff’s claims are legally defective, and because New York failed “to state a cause of action,” according to the court document.
Education software company PowerSchool is working on resolving issues stemming from a December data breach that impacted millions of students and educators (see 2501220057), it said in an emailed statement Wednesday evening.
LinkedIn was sued Tuesday after allegedly disclosing Premium customers' private messages to third parties without their permission so it could train generative AI models.
Video telematics and fleet management products provider Lytx denied violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) in an email Wednesday following settlement of a class-action lawsuit over the company's driver-monitoring technologies (see 2501210054).
Software company PowerSchool was sued Friday in U.S. District Court for Eastern California over allegations that the company’s negligence led to a data breach that compromised the data of 60 million students, educators, administrators and others, law firm Bradley/Grombacher announced Tuesday in a news release.
Responding to an opposition order Tuesday on an injunction against a California law regulating addictive social media feeds for minors, NetChoice said it's entitled to a preliminary injunction.
Video telematics and fleet management products provider Lytx must pay $4.25 million as part of a settlement with truck drivers over its alleged violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), according to last week’s ruling (case 22-00046) in U.S. District Court for Southern Illinois.
The 15th Texas Court of Appeals ruled last week that Google is allowed to question Texas officials in a lawsuit alleging that the corporation unlawfully collected biometric privacy data of millions of Texas residents without their consent.
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) on Friday announced a lawsuit against TikTok and its parent company ByteData for allegations that the social media app is harmful to children and has misrepresented the potential for the Chinese government to access Virginia residents’ data.
NetChoice submitted a renewed motion for a preliminary injunction Friday on a Tennessee law about kids' access to social media, and requested the court issue a temporary restraining order to take effect as soon as possible.