X asked the court to deny Bright Data's request to turn over additional evidence as part of a copyright case. In a letter Monday, X claimed it has provided "voluminous information," and Bright, a data scraper, is attempting to distract and stall the court despite withholding its scraping activity logs.
As the litigation landscape continues shifting under privacy laws, “search bars have quietly become a Trojan horse in online data collection,” said lawyers Vivian Isaboke and Anthony Isola from Fisher Phillips in a blog Friday.
The U.S. District Court for Northern California on Thursday ordered that social media platform X submit server logs and other evidence in its copyright case against a data-scraping company by Monday, April 14 at noon PT. The evidence was supposed to be presented to data scraper Bright Data -- the defendant -- but X has yet to do so, the court said.
A coalition of attorneys general and solicitors general from 20 red states filed an amicus brief Thursday supporting the Trump administration in a case where the president fired a pair of Democratic members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB).
Google was hit with a class-action complaint Monday alleging the company's education products secretly harvest mass amounts of student information and data without their or their parents’ knowledge or consent.
A federal bankruptcy court should deny 23andMe’s attempt to appoint a “customer data representative” in its bankruptcy sale and instead allow DOJ to appoint a consumer privacy ombudsman, the Office of the U.S. Trustee said in a filing Thursday (see 2504090048).
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard oral argument Wednesday on the National Treasury Employees Union’s pursuit of an emergency stay of President Donald Trump's executive order slashing staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The challenge is one of several that NTEU, which represents FCC employees, has against recent efforts by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the Trump administration (see 2503310047).
TikTok doubled down on a dismissal motion in a case against it that alleges the social media platform violated consumer protection and product-liability laws.
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon filed a motion to dismiss a case about the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)'s access to sensitive information in the department Tuesday, saying that the California Student Association -- plaintiff in the case -- lack standing and haven't shown irreparable harm.
In a split decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday granted a motion from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Education Department to stay a pending appeal in a case about the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) access to sensitive personal information. The U.S. District Court for Maryland previously denied the stay on the grounds that the plaintiffs would suffer irreparable harm without the preliminary injunction (see 2503280058).