The U.S. Supreme Court late Friday ruled that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) may have unfettered access to Social Security Administration data "to do their work." Some opponents of the decision said it decimated citizens' privacy rights.
NBCUniversal Media (NBCU) cited a May 1 appeals court ruling that the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) applied only to the disclosure of information that would allow an ordinary person to learn a specific individual's video-watching history as reasoning for a district court to dismiss a VPPA case against it (see 2505010046).
A court dismissed claims of privacy violations against Google Thursday that have dogged the company since 2023, ruling that an update on its help pages with instructions about preventing Google from receiving private health information (PHI) proved the tech giant wasn't intentionally obtaining the data.
A federal judge tossed a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) suit against Amazon on Tuesday, ruling that the plaintiffs didn't state claims alleging true violations of the statute. Judge James Robart granted Amazon's motion to dismiss, agreeing that there were no plausible allegations that Prime members' personally identifiable information (PII) was actually disclosed to company affiliates.
A pair of amicus briefs were filed Tuesday at the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, urging the court to side with a district court’s previous ruling that blocked the Utah attorney general from enforcing an age-verification law regulating social media and minors. The briefs argue against the law on First Amendment and privacy grounds.
Defendants in a case about the constitutionality of New Jersey's Daniel's Law asked the U.S. District Court for New Jersey to halt the proceedings because plaintiff Atlas Data Privacy hasn't stated a claim.
A recent district court decision blocking enforcement of a Florida social media law requiring age verification (see 2506030057) should serve as a reason to grant a preliminary injunction against similar measures in Tennessee and Mississippi, NetChoice said in court documents Wednesday.
Florida AG James Uthmeier (R) on Tuesday appealed a district court decision that would block enforcement of a state social media law that would prohibit kids 13 and younger from creating social media accounts, as expected. The law also requires parental consent for 14- and 15-year-olds before creating social posts and employs age-verification to implement these restrictions (see 2506030057).
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)'s claim that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is committing "the largest data breach in history" lacks supporting facts, according to DOGE, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). As such, dismissing EPIC's case against DOGE is the best choice, the three federal entities said in a filing Tuesday.
Instructure, an educational technology firm, asked a federal court to dismiss a privacy suit against it, alleging it has federal and state authorization for its actions. The suit comes from a group of parents who claim their school-aged children’s data was collected and sold without their knowledge or consent.