Tesla was hit with a class-action suit Thursday alleging California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) violations through the car company's use of tracking pixels on its website without the knowledge or consent of visitors. Plaintiff Peter Dawidzik alleged that the company uses the trackers to collect detailed user information like IP addresses, pages visited, mouse movements and even geolocation based on IP, and then shares the data with third parties such as Twitter and Google.
Health app Flo Health reached a settlement Thursday in a case involving allegations that sensitive health information was shared with third parties without user consent. Earlier in July, Google, also a defendant in case 21-00757, said it reached a settlement with the plaintiffs (see 2507090063). No details were released in either settlement.
Facebook must confront a consumer protection lawsuit after the District of Columbia Court of Appeals revived it Thursday. A lower court applied the wrong legal standard when it dismissed the case in 2022, the appeals court said.
Movie theater operators don't qualify as “video tape service providers” under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), a district court judge ruled Tuesday. Judge Daniel Crabtree dismissed a VPPA suit against AMC after deciding that watching a movie in a theater doesn't mean the theater "delivered" the movie to audience members.
In another attempt to support the state's 2023 social media safety law, Arkansas AG Tim Griffin (R) asked the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday to toss a district court ruling that blocked the measure.
A bipartisan group of nearly 30 state attorneys general voluntarily dropped a lawsuit challenging the sale of 23andMe and its genetic data on Wednesday, saying "the issues raised in this adversary complaint are rendered moot." The biotechnology company was officially sold to nonprofit TTAM Research Institute on July 11 (see 2507150083).
Porn site Multi Media renewed its call for a district court to dismiss a lawsuit against it, arguing that when a user agreed to the platform's Terms & Services, he accepted an arbitration clause. Multi Media is one of four adult websites sued in the U.S. District Court for Kansas in May for allegedly failing to implement age-verification (see 2505130023).
New York AG Letitia James (D) asked a district court Tuesday to drop a challenge against a law requiring retailers to disclose when they're using algorithmic pricing. James argued the plaintiff -- the National Retail Federation (NRF) -- didn't state a claim in case 25-05500 and that the law doesn't violate the First Amendment.
President Donald Trump and the Treasury Department argued Thursday that a judge's modification of a preliminary injunction against the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) signals a state-led lawsuit against the federal government's access to private information is deficient and should be dismissed.
The U.S. Supreme Court should block a Mississippi age-verification statute as it violates the First Amendment, a coalition of advocacy organizations said in an amicus brief supporting NetChoice.