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.
The U.S. District Court of Tennessee will hold a telephone status conference on Wednesday to discuss the status of a state age-verification law that took effect Jan. 1, said Judge William Campbell.