A federal court shouldn’t force Google to share users’ personal data in DOJ’s monopoly lawsuit against the company, the Competitive Enterprise Institute said Thursday.
A court ruled on Wednesday that the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure, applies to information stored online, and that people can have a reasonable expectation of privacy concerning information stored in files on the internet.
The New York Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the state Attorney General's lawsuit against TikTok will continue, the AG office announced. AG Letitia James (D) sued the social media platform last October for alleged violations of consumer protection and product-liability laws (see 2501230015).
President Donald Trump on Tuesday filed an appeal seeking a stay against a federal court’s ruling reinstating fired members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (see 2505210073).
District Judge Jeannette Vargas denied President Donald Trump and the Treasury Department’s motion to dissolve a preliminary injunction (PI) against the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) access to sensitive Treasury data on Tuesday. The judge ruled that the PI order should be modified so that the department and department secretary cannot provide access to payment information or systems containing sensitive information unless DOGE personnel handling it have undergone specific training and vetting.
NetChoice filed a brief on Tuesday asking the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to side with a district court’s previous ruling and block the Utah attorney general from enforcing a law regulating social media and minors on First Amendment and privacy grounds.
A New York-led coalition of states filed an amended complaint against President Donald Trump and the Treasury Department on Friday, re-emphasizing the need to stop those without proper training and vetting from accessing personally identifiable information (PII) in Treasury data systems. This second complaint alleges violations of the Take Care Clause, the separation of powers doctrine and violations of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).
Mississippi’s age-verification law violates the First Amendment in part because it requires the collection of personally identifying information and in turn “chills speech,” NetChoice argued Friday in a reply brief seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction (see 2505200017).
A recent decision by a California federal court that granted collective action certification in an age-discrimination case about using AI in the hiring process has larger implications for AI-driven recruiting technology, said Davis Wright attorneys Jeremy Merkelson and Erik Mass in a blog post Wednesday.
President Donald Trump and the Treasury Department again pushed a federal court to dissolve a preliminary injunction halting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to Treasury's sensitive information. The injunction is no longer needed, the government argued Wednesday.