The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed an amended complaint Tuesday renewing allegations that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is committing the "largest and most consequential data breach" through its access to private information at federal agencies.
Washington University School of Law professor Neil Richards will serve as consumer privacy ombudsman in 23andMe’s bankruptcy sale, DOJ’s Office of the U.S. Trustee told the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Eastern Missouri in a filing Tuesday (see 2504290056). The U.S. Trustee office appointed Richards after reaching an agreement with the company.
Former FTC Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya pushed back on the president’s claims that he has the constitutional right to fire them. In a reply brief Monday, the two again asked a district court to grant summary judgment in their favor.
Florida and 18 other state enforcers, plus the Arizona state legislature, supported Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in asking a federal appeals court to remove a preliminary injunction on his state's age-verification law.
Data removal service Atlas Data Privacy fired back Monday against a motion to dismiss a case about the constitutionality of a New Jersey statute aimed at protecting the personal information of certain public servants, including judges, law enforcement and their families.
Oracle Health was sued for allegedly sharing the private health information of two patients with Google via the corporation’s marketing systems without patient knowledge or consent. Filed last week, the class-action lawsuit argued Oracle violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule.
The U.S. District Court for Southern Mississippi granted NetChoice’s unopposed motion Friday and lifted the stay of proceedings in a case over a Mississippi age-verification law for social media.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday sued Illinois over a workplace privacy law that allegedly disrupts federal immigration authority.
NetChoice filed an amended complaint Friday against Mississippi over an age-verification law in a case that was recently remanded to the district court by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Two amicus briefs were filed in the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday in support of the NBA in a Video Privacy Protection Act case, including one from the NFL and the other a joint amicus brief from the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). The briefs asked the Supreme Court to grant cert in NBA v. Salazar and reverse the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling.