The Consumer Privacy Ombudsman (CPO)'s report on the 23andMe bankruptcy case recommends requiring separate, affirmative consent from consumers for the sale of genetic data before a sale of the company occurs. Neil Richards, appointed CPO on May 6, also recommended posthumous data safeguards and guaranteed duty of loyalty, among other suggestions, in the 211-page document filed Wednesday at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Eastern Missouri.
A district judge on Monday denied class certification in a privacy case that centers on whether Google violated users' privacy rights by allegedly appropriating personal information the company previously said it wouldn't touch.
FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya on Monday announced his resignation but said he will remain a plaintiff in a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s recent firings of himself and Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter (see 2505230044).
A federal judge granted an injunction against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Monday, ruling that DOGE employees violated the rights of federal employees when they gained access to their legally-protected sensitive information stored in OPM's systems. The judge, Denise Cote, said she would outline the injunction's scope at a later date.
The U.S. Supreme Court late Friday ruled that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) may have unfettered access to Social Security Administration data "to do their work." Some opponents of the decision said it decimated citizens' privacy rights.
NBCUniversal Media (NBCU) cited a May 1 appeals court ruling that the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) applied only to the disclosure of information that would allow an ordinary person to learn a specific individual's video-watching history as reasoning for a district court to dismiss a VPPA case against it (see 2505010046).
A court dismissed claims of privacy violations against Google Thursday that have dogged the company since 2023, ruling that an update on its help pages with instructions about preventing Google from receiving private health information (PHI) proved the tech giant wasn't intentionally obtaining the data.
A federal judge tossed a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) suit against Amazon on Tuesday, ruling that the plaintiffs didn't state claims alleging true violations of the statute. Judge James Robart granted Amazon's motion to dismiss, agreeing that there were no plausible allegations that Prime members' personally identifiable information (PII) was actually disclosed to company affiliates.
A pair of amicus briefs were filed Tuesday at the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, urging the court to side with a district court’s previous ruling that blocked the Utah attorney general from enforcing an age-verification law regulating social media and minors. The briefs argue against the law on First Amendment and privacy grounds.
Defendants in a case about the constitutionality of New Jersey's Daniel's Law asked the U.S. District Court for New Jersey to halt the proceedings because plaintiff Atlas Data Privacy hasn't stated a claim.