Upholding the firing of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter “destroys the independence” of the agency and hinders its ability to conduct its mission, U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan ruled in a filing Thursday.
A federal judge's recent decision in a privacy case involving GoodRx is relevant to one concerning children's privacy violations by an EdTech company, parents alleged in a court document filed Thursday.
House of Dior didn't properly secure customers' sensitive personal information, prompting a data breach in Jan. 2025, a class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges. The suit also claims Dior was too slow to inform customers that their personal data was potentially exposed.
A federal court should continue blocking FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter from returning to the commission because the “balance of harms” favors the Trump administration, DOJ argued Wednesday in a reply brief.
A federal judge will not change or amend an earlier ruling that permanently enjoined an Arkansas social media safety act, according to a court document filed Wednesday.
Amazon said a district court wrongly granted class certification in a 2021 case against that alleged the online retail giant unlawfully recorded and collected private conversations through its virtual assistant Alexa. The company appealed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday.
A case alleging discount prescription drug platform GoodRx unlawfully shared patients' protected health information with Google and Meta will continue, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) urged a court to deny a request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) that would prevent it from collecting personal data about millions of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients. The plaintiffs -- a coalition of stakeholders led by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) -- haven't proven harm, injury, standing or the likelihood of success of their claims, USDA said.
A class-action complaint alleging a software company created and sold consumer profiles without their consent will continue, the U.S. District Court for Northern California ruled on Friday.
Google continued to claim it acted lawfully in a reply Monday about a case alleging the company intentionally captured communications between health providers and patients containing identifiable private health information (PHI). Google has fought the privacy case since 2023.