The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Friday opposed a motion from federal employees asking a court to stop OPM from disclosing records containing sensitive personal information to DOGE. The American Federation of Government Employees requested the injunction at the end of April, claiming that disclosing this data is a violation of the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Administrative Procedures Act (see 2504280027).
President Donald Trump and the Treasury Department doubled down Friday on their request that a court dissolve a preliminary injunction (PI) that's preventing Treasury employees from accessing systems containing citizens' sensitive information.
New York led a coalition of states that asked a federal court Wednesday to ignore a motion from President Donald Trump and the Treasury Department to dissolve a preliminary injunction. The injunction bars Treasury employees from accessing systems that contain personally identifiable information (PII) or financial information of payees.
Four porn sites were sued Monday for allegedly failing to implement age verification on their websites as Kansas law requires, announced the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) Law Center, co-counsel for the suits. Filed on behalf of a 14-year-old minor in the U.S. District Court for Kansas, the suits are the first in the U.S. that challenge violations of age-verification laws, NCOSE said.
A Tennessee public school system sued software provider PowerSchool over a breach in December 2024 where hackers stole student and teacher data. The complaint alleges breach of contract, false advertising and negligence as a result of personal information being accessed by bad actors.
A proposed settlement has been reached in a case involving Google's alleged violation of children's privacy, according to a joint court document filed Friday.
A fourth amended class action complaint was filed Friday in a case alleging NBCUniversal Media (NBCU) violated the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) through its use of the Meta tracking pixel. The case, Golden v. NBCUniversal Media, was previously dismissed when the U.S. District Court for Southern New York ruled that the plaintiff did not count as a "consumer" under the Act, but changed its mind following the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling in a VPPA case in October (see 2501100009).
Court cases on Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to people’s sensitive information are developing precedents that will shape privacy protections in government data sharing, said an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) official at a partly virtual University of Illinois privacy conference Thursday.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) renewed its call for a court to require that the Social Security Administration (SSA) promptly process its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents related to possible privacy violations.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sought a preliminary injunction against an Illinois workplace privacy law on Wednesday, alleging that certain sections of it infringe on the federal government's ability to conduct immigration enforcement.