Software marketing firm Cierant Corporation failed to safeguard customers' personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI), which allowed their exposure in a 2024 breach, alleged a class-action lawsuit filed Thursday. Plaintiff Melissa Gifford brought the suit in the U.S. District Court for Connecticut on behalf of her minor child, whose health information was leaked.
California and Maryland parents on Monday appealed a child privacy case against an education technology platform to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The U.S. District Court for Central California ruled in favor of Instructure earlier this month, saying the parents failed to plausibly allege specific facts about the taking or use of data (see 2508050033).
The plaintiff in a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) case against satirical news site The Onion voluntarily dropped the complaint in a court document Friday. No reason for the dismissal was given.
A New York state law requiring retailers to disclose when they're using algorithmic pricing is content- and viewpoint-based and a violation of the First Amendment, said a Thursday amicus brief by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The group filed in support of the National Retail Federation (NRF), which filed suit in early July against New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), alleging that the state is inappropriately compelling speech through the Algorithmic Disclosure Act.
The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) fails to establish how federal law preempts a state social media law that would prohibit kids 13 and younger from creating social media accounts, Florida argued Thursday in asking a federal court to dismiss some of the organization's amended complaint in case 4:24-cv-00438.
A federal court dismissed a case against several data brokers accused of violating West Virginia's Daniel's Law. Judge Michael Urbanski ruled the 2021 statutory provision the plaintiff relied on -- which allows certain public servants to request data brokers delete their personal information from their public websites -- is unconstitutional.
A Florida social media law that would prohibit children 13 and younger from creating social media accounts is content-neutral and furthers governmental interests in protecting them from online harms, said a bipartisan coalition of 27 states and Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
NetChoice lacks standing to challenge the Ohio Social Media Parental Notification Act, nor does the law violate the First Amendment, said Attorney General Dave Yost (R) in a brief filed Tuesday. He asked the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse an April decision by the U.S. District Court for Southern Ohio to enjoin the law (see 2504180031).
Google and YouTube will pay a combined $30 million to resolve a children's privacy lawsuit that alleged the companies collected personal data and information without consent and used it to deliver targeted ads in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), California privacy laws and other similar state laws (see 2505120037)
A federal court on Tuesday dismissed a workplace privacy suit that DOJ brought against Illinois, ruling that federal immigration law isn't always absolute. The suit started in May, when DOJ alleged an amendment to Illinois’ Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act violated the Immigration Reform and Control Act (ICRA) of 1986 and other federal laws (see 2505050065).