23andMe’s bankruptcy sale can proceed despite privacy-related objections from California, a federal judge ruled Thursday (see 2506100051).
A New Hampshire state court on Tuesday allowed a consumer protection case against social media platform TikTok to continue, ruling the state has jurisdiction to bring the suit, and that the First Amendment does not bar it from bringing the claims. One claim involving the Consumer Protection Act was dropped, however.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday dismissed claims that shoe company Converse aided and abetted violations of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) when it used a Salesforce chat function. While the three-judge panel affirmed summary justice of the district court, one judge went a step further, and said the wiretapping clause of the Act should not apply to internet communications.
Google said it reached a settlement on Monday with plaintiffs involved in a case about a health-tracking app that allegedly unlawfully shared sensitive health information with third parties without user consent.
A federal judge granted class action certification on Monday in a 2021 case alleging Amazon unlawfully recorded and collected private conversations through its virtual assistant Alexa, without notice or consent. Case 21-00750 alleges violation of six states’ wiretap laws and Washington state’s Consumer Protection Act.
Adult website ICF Technology asked a federal court on Thursday to drop a suit against it for lack of jurisdiction. ICF Technology was one of four adult websites sued in the U.S. District Court for Kansas on May 12 for allegedly violating Kansas law when they failed to implement age-verification tools on their sites (see 2505130023).
Responding to a suit against New York over a state law requiring that retailers disclose when they are using algorithmic pricing, privacy lawyer Heidi Saas argued that the First Amendment does not protect surveillance pricing.
Federal court Judge Halil Ozerden granted a stay of proceedings in a Mississippi social media age-verification law case while an appeal to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is pending. The parties in the case, NetChoice and Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R), jointly moved for the stay on Wednesday (see 2507020027).
Trade association NetChoice and Mississippi AG Lynn Fitch (R) jointly moved for a stay of proceedings of a social media age-verification law case while Fitch's appeal to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is pending.
Following a joint stipulation of voluntary dismissal Friday from data scraper Bright Data and social media platform X, U.S. District Court for Northern California Judge William Alsup ordered the copyright case dismissed on Tuesday.