DOJ will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse “unconstitutional” protections preventing the president from firing members of commissions like the FTC, acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris wrote Congress on Wednesday.
Acting Secretary of Education Denise Carter filed Thursday in opposition to a motion for a temporary restraining order on employee access to Education Department systems from the University of California Student Association. The government cited a conflict with the separation of powers and the unlikeliness that plaintiffs will succeed on the merits of their claim.
The first class-action complaint under Washington’s 2024 My Health My Data Act was filed Monday against Amazon for allegedly harvesting the location data of users without their consent.
President Donald Trump asked the U.S. District Court of Southern New York to deny 19 states' motion for a preliminary injunction to block Elon Musk’s data-collection efforts at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
X Corp. filed a reply on Tuesday that supports an earlier motion to dismiss data-scraping company Bright Data's counterclaims in a copyright case at the U.S. District Court of Northern California.
Members of the advocacy group Oakland Privacy traveled to Chicago on Jan. 30 to tell a federal court in person that the proposed class action settlement resolving claims against Clearview AI for allegedly scraping facial images off the internet and then selling them to law enforcement is inadequate, the coalition said in a press release Tuesday.
Meta defended a $725 million class action settlement Friday at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, with the Facebook parent urging a rejection of the opponents' arguments that the deal is inadequate.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau violated federal privacy law by allowing Elon Musk and his associates access to sensitive data, and the Trump administration is violating the law by halting work at the agency, a federal employee union said in two lawsuits filed Sunday.
The University of California Student Association on Friday sued the U.S. Department of Education for the unlawful and continuous disclosure of sensitive information in department records to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals should direct a lower court to enjoin California’s 2024 law (SB-976) restricting social media feeds for minors, consumer privacy advocates and free-market groups said in amicus briefs filed Thursday (case 25-146). As it urged the appeals court to reverse the U.S. District Court for Northern California, the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) raised privacy concerns about requiring companies to conduct age verification.