A bipartisan group of eleven states, led by New Hampshire and Vermont, filed an amicus brief Monday in support of California's litigation against Meta in an online safety case concerning addicting children. The brief highlights other state litigation that has found the Communications Decency Act (CDA) doesn't immunize the social media platform against claims that it employs coercive design features that addict minors. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) also filed a brief Monday supporting California.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday granted a stay, halting a district court’s decision that found President Donald Trump’s recent firings at the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to be illegal.
Plaintiff Michael Salazar opposed the NBA’s request for the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the basketball league said unfairly expanded the scope of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA). Salazar, a consumer, argued that the complaint in the writ for certiorari is not the one in question anymore.
A consolidated case involving a New Jersey statute protecting certain public servants’ personal information can continue, Judge Harvey Bartle ruled on Friday, denying various motions to dismiss. The plaintiff, Atlas Privacy, has brought suits against data brokers -- the defendants -- under Daniel’s Law, which the brokers argue is unconstitutional in a case at the U.S. District Court for New Jersey.
NetChoice asked a federal court on Monday to consider blocking a Utah age-verification law due to its similarity to a Mississippi age-verification law that was preliminarily enjoined.
NetChoice filed an additional lawsuit against Arkansas late Friday as it attempted to block a pair of measures that would amend the state’s 2023 Social Media Safety Act, which a court ruled unconstitutional in late March following a NetChoice challenge (see 2504010044).
TikTok on Thursday appealed a New York Supreme Court judge's May ruling that allowed a suit from the Attorney General's office against the social media platform to continue (see 2505280056). TikTok appealed to the Appellate Division of New York's Supreme Court, arguing the judge erred when it ruled the state's claims were not barred by the First Amendment and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Medical device company Abbott Laboratories was hit with a suit Tuesday when a former employee alleged genetic information he was required to submit as a condition of employment violated the Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA).
In a reversal, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently decided a privacy case against Bloomingdale's, ruling that the retailer violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) when it tracked an online shopper's movement without consent. The decision indicates the court's favorable sentiment concerning protecting citizens' privacy and a shift in its approach to the wiretapping statute, Loeb & Loeb privacy lawyer Allison Cohen blogged.
Education technology vendor Instructure renewed its request that a district court dismiss a privacy suit against it, arguing that the plaintiffs failed to allege constitutional violations or invasion of privacy, and didn't prove violations of California law.