A federal court erred when it declined to block a Tennessee age-verification law, NetChoice said Wednesday. The trade association asked the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse the district court decision and issue a preliminary injunction against HB-1891, which requires that social media companies verify the age of account holders and gain parental consent from users younger than 18 before they can open accounts
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this week asked the New Jersey Supreme Court to weigh in on whether the state’s Daniel’s Law imposes strict liability on data brokers for posting private information online, or if proof of intent is required.
PowerSchool "intends to vigorously defend itself" against the lawsuit that the Texas attorney general filed Wednesday, a spokesperson for the education software company told Privacy Daily in an email. AG Ken Paxton's (R) lawsuit charged that PowerSchool’s failure to protect the personal information of almost 900,000 Texas schoolchildren and educators in a data breach late last year was a violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act (see 2509030059).
A federal court dropped a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) case against NBCUniversal Media (NBCU) Wednesday, ruling that the complaint did not adequately allege the disclosure of personally identifiable information (PII) within the meaning of the statute.
As conflict over the scope of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) continues, some plaintiffs are becoming more creative in how they can apply the videotape-focused statute from 1988. Recently, that's centered on video games. But as Perkins Cole lawyers blogged about an Aug. 7 ruling of the U.S. District Court for Central California, “simply purchasing a game doesn’t unlock the door to a VPPA claim.”
HIPAA and other privacy regulations often don't help consumers make a monetary argument in court against health care firms that have experienced a data breach, said attorney Nick Palmieri in a blog post Tuesday. Unlike the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), however, "consumer-fraud statutes can keep a case alive," he said.
The federal government urged a court to reject a claim from a coalition of states that's seeking to block the collection of personally identifiable information (PII) about millions of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients while litigation regarding the legality of the data demand is pending. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) made the request in a court document Tuesday, claiming the states' case is unlikely to succeed on its claims.
The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) asked a federal court Tuesday to permanently block a Florida social media law that would prohibit kids 13 and younger from creating social media accounts through required age verification.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) demand for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) applicant and recipient data from the states "display[s] the height of contempt" for the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), said a coalition of stakeholders in a court document Friday.
Though two cases involving the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) of 1988 have petitions for writ of certiorari pending at the U.S. Supreme Court, the high court should review the cases separately, said plaintiff Michael Salazar in a court document Tuesday. In Salazar v. NBA, the basketball league wants a decision from the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals reviewed, arguing that the court unfairly expanded the scope of the VPPA in its decision (see 2503190047).