Allstate defended the practices of subsidiary data analytics company Arity after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) sued the insurer for the alleged unlawful collection, use and sale of location data from Texans’ cellphones.
A federal judge in California ruled Monday that a case against Google will continue, and the search engine must face claims that it tracked children’s YouTube activity to show them targeted ads, in violation of their privacy.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) opposed an injunction on a state law that would regulate addictive social media feeds for minors, arguing the organization didn't prove that the challenged provisions in the law are unconstitutional. In November, NetChoice sued Bonta over SB-976, alleging it undermines free speech and privacy principles.
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R) on Monday asked to dismiss the Computer and Communications Industry Association's (CCIA) complaint against a kids social media bill. Also, Florida opposed the plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction.
X's copyright case against a data-scraping company is worth watching closely this year, McCarthy Law Group founder Kieran McCarthy said in a blog post Monday.
A Nebraska state court ruled Friday that it has jurisdiction over TikTok, dismissing the platform's motion to dismiss a child safety case. At the Nebraska District Court of Lancaster County, the state alleged that TikTok misrepresented its safety and suitability for minors, and that its data security and privacy practices violate Nebraska’s consumer protection laws.
Speculative national security concerns about the Chinese government abusing Americans’ data privacy aren’t enough to justify an unconstitutional law forcing ByteDance to divest TikTok, Sens. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., said Thursday in an amicus brief they filed along with Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif.
Digital assistant Siri was engineered to protect user privacy and audio recordings of its interactions have never been sold or stored without consent, Apple said Tuesday after agreeing to a $95 million settlement in a lawsuit that alleged Siri routinely recorded private conversations.
Twenty-five privacy decisions from October to December show a significant uptick in the number of pixel-based court rulings on wiretapping issued nationwide, according to Husch Blackwell’s Dustin Taylor and Owen Davis in their monthly data privacy litigation report Monday. Ten of the decisions cited in the report were about pixel-wiretapping decisions: four on chat-wiretapping decisions, four on secure reliable transport-wiretapping, five on pen registry/tap and trace decisions and two on Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) decisions.
GameStop and the plaintiffs in a class-action suit alleging violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) agreed to dismiss the lawsuit, the parties announced in a joint stipulation of dismissal at U.S. District Court of New York Monday.