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.
LinkedIn was hit with a class-action lawsuit Monday in the U.S. District Court for Northern California for allegedly disclosing personally identifiable information (PII) and video viewing activity to Facebook without users’ consent, in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA).
The U.S. District Court for Massachusetts ruled Friday that it will dismiss a class-action lawsuit against TJX Companies, parent of retailer Marshalls, for lack of jurisdiction and since the plaintiff failed to allege a concrete harm. The plaintiff alleged that a “spy pixel” was embedded in TJX's promotional emails, which collected information from the receivers without their consent, violating the Arizona Telephone, Utility and Communication Service Records Act.
BrightData opposed X Corp’s motion to dismiss the data-scraping company's counterclaims in a copyright case Tuesday at the U.S. District Court of Northern California. BrightData alleged that the social media platform’s attempts to remove rights of the public to access and scrape public portions of the web are anticompetitive conduct.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday denied Apple’s motion to stay proceedings in a case about Google’s search dominance, swiftly shutting down the company’s ability to participate in the future remedies phase of the case.
The U.S. District Court of Idaho on Monday denied data broker Kochava's motion to dismiss a case alleging that the broker's data sales are unfair acts or practices likely to cause substantial injury to consumers in violation of Section 5(a) of the FTC Act. Kochava moved to dismiss on the basis that Section 5(a) requires tangible consumer injury and a violation of well-established legal policy, the order said. The court said the "FTC is authorized to seek injunctive relief if it has 'reason to believe' that a business is violating, or is about to violate, a law enforced by the FTC," denying Kochava's motion.
NetChoice fired back at the Mississippi Attorney General Friday for attempting to reverse a preliminary injunction on a children’s online safety law, arguing that the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in NetChoice v. Paxton has no bearing on an ongoing case in the state. AG Lynn Fitch (R) on Wednesday filed a letter to the 5th U.S. Circuit urging that it rule against an injunction, as it did in the Paxton case.
Amazon was hit with a class-action lawsuit Wednesday for allegedly tracking and selling sensitive movement and location data of California residents.