California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) filed an answering brief in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday, reiterating that the bill regulating kids’ social media feeds at the center of the case is constitutional, and that plaintiff NetChoice failed to compile a record showing how the legislation would impact platforms -- including those of NetChoice members -- across the internet.
Department store Bloomingdale's was hit with a class-action complaint Monday over violations of the California Invasion of Privacy Act for allegedly sharing personal information and data with social media platform TikTok without user consent.
TikTok moved to dismiss a case that New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin (D) brought for alleged violations of the state's consumer-protection law. The AG lacks jurisdiction to bring the case, and federal law bars many of its counts, the social media platform's motion said.
Gambling platform DraftKings asked the U.S. District Court for Southern New York to dismiss a case against it Friday, arguing the complaint in case 24-05997 oversteps the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA).
Recently fired Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board members Travis LeBlanc and Ed Felten should be reinstated because President Donald Trump removed them without “good cause,” attorneys argued in a lawsuit filed Monday.
The U.S. District Court for Maryland partially granted a motion Monday for a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) access to sensitive personal information at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Education Department. The plaintiffs clearly showed that they would suffer irreparable harm without injunctive relief, the court said.
Amazon and plaintiff Dominic Mayhall announced on Wednesday that they reached a confidential settlement in a case alleging violation of the Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). As part of the settlement, both parties agreed to a dismissal with prejudice of the plaintiff’s claims.
A federal judge for the U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia on Thursday granted class-action status to a plaintiff who alleged that health and medical corporation WebMD violated the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by disclosing video-viewing information to Meta Platforms. WebMD had argued that class certification should not be granted because the proposed class is not adequately defined or ascertainable and that individual privacy settings impede the commonality requirement.
A U.S. District Court of Southern New York judge granted a preliminary injunction Friday prohibiting Treasury Department employees who are not in a Senate-confirmed position from accessing department systems that contain personally identifiable information (PII) or financial information of payees.
The U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia on Friday denied a motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Treasury Department by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)’s access to sensitive information.