The U.S. Supreme Court affords the best way of resolving a circuit split concerning the scope of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), the NBA said Wednesday in a reply to plaintiff Michael Salazar, who opposed the league's request for the high court to review a 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision.
When the terms and conditions of a website violate the law, it doesn't matter that a person agreed to them, a plaintiff argued in a case against adult website Multi Media.
Roku asked a federal court Monday to dismiss several counts in a case where Michigan alleged the company collected minors' personal information without parental consent or knowledge.
Google renewed its call for a federal court to dismiss a class-action case against it that alleges the company's education products secretly harvest mass amounts of student information and data without their or their parents’ knowledge or consent. In its motion to dismiss, Google claims the plaintiffs -- parents of minor schoolchildren -- haven't alleged invasion of privacy.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) doubled down on its request to a federal court to block an Illinois workplace privacy law that it alleges impedes federal immigration authorities. The amended Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act violates the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution and the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, among other laws, according to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi (see 2505050065).
Technology service provider Capgemini America asked a federal court Thursday to dismiss a privacy suit from MoneyGram Payment Systems that alleges Capgemini is responsible for a recent data breach. In the motion to dismiss, Capgemini said it lacked access to "the personal data of MoneyGram’s customers."
NetChoice asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to continue to block a Mississippi age-verification law that a district court enjoined in June (see 2506180051) while the case is pending. Yet Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R) noted in a July 2 court document that the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton affirms age-verification measures. Fitch has vowed to fight for the "commonsense" law (see 2506200009).
23andMe’s bankruptcy sale can proceed despite privacy-related objections from California, a federal judge ruled Thursday (see 2506100051).
A New Hampshire state court on Tuesday allowed a consumer protection case against social media platform TikTok to continue, ruling the state has jurisdiction to bring the suit, and that the First Amendment does not bar it from bringing the claims. One claim involving the Consumer Protection Act was dropped, however.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday dismissed claims that shoe company Converse aided and abetted violations of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) when it used a Salesforce chat function. While the three-judge panel affirmed summary justice of the district court, one judge went a step further, and said the wiretapping clause of the Act should not apply to internet communications.