Video telematics and fleet management products provider Lytx denied violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) in an email Wednesday following settlement of a class-action lawsuit over the company's driver-monitoring technologies (see 2501210054).
Software company PowerSchool was sued Friday in U.S. District Court for Eastern California over allegations that the company’s negligence led to a data breach that compromised the data of 60 million students, educators, administrators and others, law firm Bradley/Grombacher announced Tuesday in a news release.
Responding to an opposition order Tuesday on an injunction against a California law regulating addictive social media feeds for minors, NetChoice said it's entitled to a preliminary injunction.
Video telematics and fleet management products provider Lytx must pay $4.25 million as part of a settlement with truck drivers over its alleged violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), according to last week’s ruling (case 22-00046) in U.S. District Court for Southern Illinois.
The 15th Texas Court of Appeals ruled last week that Google is allowed to question Texas officials in a lawsuit alleging that the corporation unlawfully collected biometric privacy data of millions of Texas residents without their consent.
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) on Friday announced a lawsuit against TikTok and its parent company ByteData for allegations that the social media app is harmful to children and has misrepresented the potential for the Chinese government to access Virginia residents’ data.
NetChoice submitted a renewed motion for a preliminary injunction Friday on a Tennessee law about kids' access to social media, and requested the court issue a temporary restraining order to take effect as soon as possible.
Allstate defended the practices of subsidiary data analytics company Arity after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) sued the insurer for the alleged unlawful collection, use and sale of location data from Texans’ cellphones.
A federal judge in California ruled Monday that a case against Google will continue, and the search engine must face claims that it tracked children’s YouTube activity to show them targeted ads, in violation of their privacy.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) opposed an injunction on a state law that would regulate addictive social media feeds for minors, arguing the organization didn't prove that the challenged provisions in the law are unconstitutional. In November, NetChoice sued Bonta over SB-976, alleging it undermines free speech and privacy principles.