On Monday, a judge for the U.S. District Court of Western Pennsylvania ruled that website privacy statements that disclose third-party data collection do not violate the state's wiretapping laws, throwing out a case against clothing boutique company Harriet Carter, which faced a class action lawsuit for wiretapping claims.
New York University (NYU) was hit with a class action lawsuit on Monday over allegations that it failed to secure the personally identifiable information (PII) of its students, which was accessed in a data breach earlier in March. Data thieves have used the PII to commit identity theft and fraud, said the plaintiffs, who are current and former NYU students.
A judge for the U.S. District for Northern Illinois on Monday scrapped a previous ruling in a case about a company collecting biometrics of its employees, claiming instead that the amendment to the Biometric Information Privacy Act does not apply retroactively, reopening case 24-01925.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti (R) asked the U.S. District Court of Middle Tennessee on Monday again to deny NetChoice's preliminary injunction against a law requiring age verification to access social media accounts. Skrmetti argued the association's notice of supplemental authority concerns an unrelated data privacy law.
Current and former federal employees -- plaintiffs in a case alleging the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) accessed sensitive personal data in violation of the 1974 Privacy Act -- filed a motion opposing the government's motion to dismiss Monday, alleging DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) failed to protect the security of records loaded with sensitive personal information.
U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman granted the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)'s motion for preliminary injunction Monday against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Education Department over the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) access to sensitive personal information at the departments. "No matter how important or urgent the President’s DOGE agenda may be, federal agencies must execute it in accordance with the law," she said. "That likely did not happen in this case."
A recent decision in a Florida privacy class action lawsuit shows how older wiretapping statutes could be applied to modern pixel tracking cases, Sidley Austin attorneys said Wednesday.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday denied the California Student Association’s motion for expedited discovery in a case about the Department of Government Efficiency's access to sensitive information. Judge Randolph Moss ruled the students failed to show expedited discovery is needed in case 25-00354.
Oral argument is scheduled for April 2 at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in NetChoice, LLC v. Bonta. Case 25-146 concerns California’s 2024 law (SB-976) that places restrictions on social media feeds for minors. These restrictions pose privacy and security risks, consumer privacy advocates say (see 2502070019).
The NBA filed a petition for a writ of certiorari on Friday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision from the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals that the basketball league said unfairly expanded the scope of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) of 1988.