A coalition of attorneys general and solicitors general from 20 red states filed an amicus brief Thursday supporting the Trump administration in a case where the president fired a pair of Democratic members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB).
Google was hit with a class-action complaint Monday alleging the company's education products secretly harvest mass amounts of student information and data without their or their parents’ knowledge or consent.
A federal bankruptcy court should deny 23andMe’s attempt to appoint a “customer data representative” in its bankruptcy sale and instead allow DOJ to appoint a consumer privacy ombudsman, the Office of the U.S. Trustee said in a filing Thursday (see 2504090048).
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard oral argument Wednesday on the National Treasury Employees Union’s pursuit of an emergency stay of President Donald Trump's executive order slashing staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The challenge is one of several that NTEU, which represents FCC employees, has against recent efforts by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the Trump administration (see 2503310047).
TikTok doubled down on a dismissal motion in a case against it that alleges the social media platform violated consumer protection and product-liability laws.
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon filed a motion to dismiss a case about the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)'s access to sensitive information in the department Tuesday, saying that the California Student Association -- plaintiff in the case -- lack standing and haven't shown irreparable harm.
In a split decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday granted a motion from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Education Department to stay a pending appeal in a case about the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) access to sensitive personal information. The U.S. District Court for Maryland previously denied the stay on the grounds that the plaintiffs would suffer irreparable harm without the preliminary injunction (see 2503280058).
Yahoo was sued Thursday in the U.S. Court of Southern New York for violating user privacy after allegedly deploying tracking technology that compiled profiles of users based on data and information obtained without their knowledge or consent.
Adobe's use of tracking tools embedded in websites to collect and then monetize vast amounts of users' personal information violates the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) and other privacy laws, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for Northern California.
The U.S. District Court for Northern California on Wednesday threw out a privacy suit against video game publisher Ubisoft on the grounds that the display of a cookie banner and creating an account that required accepting the terms of use and privacy policy meant that Ubisoft was granted consent to use pixel tracking and collect data on users.