A federal judge granted class action certification on Monday in a 2021 case alleging Amazon unlawfully recorded and collected private conversations through its virtual assistant Alexa, without notice or consent. Case 21-00750 alleges violation of six states’ wiretap laws and Washington state’s Consumer Protection Act.
Adult website ICF Technology asked a federal court on Thursday to drop a suit against it for lack of jurisdiction. ICF Technology was one of four adult websites sued in the U.S. District Court for Kansas on May 12 for allegedly violating Kansas law when they failed to implement age-verification tools on their sites (see 2505130023).
Responding to a suit against New York over a state law requiring that retailers disclose when they are using algorithmic pricing, privacy lawyer Heidi Saas argued that the First Amendment does not protect surveillance pricing.
Federal court Judge Halil Ozerden granted a stay of proceedings in a Mississippi social media age-verification law case while an appeal to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is pending. The parties in the case, NetChoice and Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R), jointly moved for the stay on Wednesday (see 2507020027).
Trade association NetChoice and Mississippi AG Lynn Fitch (R) jointly moved for a stay of proceedings of a social media age-verification law case while Fitch's appeal to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is pending.
Following a joint stipulation of voluntary dismissal Friday from data scraper Bright Data and social media platform X, U.S. District Court for Northern California Judge William Alsup ordered the copyright case dismissed on Tuesday.
A bipartisan group of eleven states, led by New Hampshire and Vermont, filed an amicus brief Monday in support of California's litigation against Meta in an online safety case concerning addicting children. The brief highlights other state litigation that has found the Communications Decency Act (CDA) doesn't immunize the social media platform against claims that it employs coercive design features that addict minors. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) also filed a brief Monday supporting California.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday granted a stay, halting a district court’s decision that found President Donald Trump’s recent firings at the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to be illegal.
Plaintiff Michael Salazar opposed the NBA’s request for the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the basketball league said unfairly expanded the scope of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA). Salazar, a consumer, argued that the complaint in the writ for certiorari is not the one in question anymore.
A consolidated case involving a New Jersey statute protecting certain public servants’ personal information can continue, Judge Harvey Bartle ruled on Friday, denying various motions to dismiss. The plaintiff, Atlas Privacy, has brought suits against data brokers -- the defendants -- under Daniel’s Law, which the brokers argue is unconstitutional in a case at the U.S. District Court for New Jersey.