An online transcription service that records users during meetings and interviews also utilizes these voice recordings and other data to train its AI models without consent, alleges a class-action lawsuit filed last week in the U.S. District Court for Northern California against Otter.ai.
A coalition of 21 states, plus Washington, D.C., asked a federal court Monday to block the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from demanding that they part with the sensitive, personally identifiable information (PII) of millions of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients while litigation is pending about the legality of the agency's request.
The federal jury decision earlier this month that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) illustrates how tracking technologies can pose serious risks if not responsibly deployed, said Ice Miller lawyers in a Monday blog post. The jury in Frasco v. Flo Health, Inc. found the social media platform intentionally eavesdropped on users of the health app Flo Health without consent and received sensitive data on users' menstrual cycles and reproductive health (see 2508040041).
NetChoice lacks standing to bring a suit against Maryland's Age-Appropriate Design Code (MAADC) Act and it hasn't sufficiently pleaded its facial claims, Attorney General Anthony Brown (D) said in a court document Friday. The AG again requested that a federal court dismiss the trade association's suit, which argues that the kids code law is unconstitutional.
A coalition of cities and other organizations on Friday appealed a June decision that vacated most of a rule that reduced the instances where protected health information can be used or disclosed to investigate a person who sought lawful reproductive health care.
The claim that Roblox would intentionally put its users "at risk of exploitation is categorically untrue," the company said in a statement Friday in response to a lawsuit from Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill (R) (see 2508140051).
Law firm Kelley Drye failed to properly train employees on cybersecurity or maintain reasonable security safeguards, which allowed a data breach impacting thousands of customers' personal information to be leaked, a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York state court alleged. Additionally, plaintiff Ratna Kanhai claims Kelley Drye didn't report the breach promptly, and the eventual notification was intentionally confusing.
The NBA doubled down Friday on its stance that a U.S. Supreme Court review of Salazar v. NBA is needed to settle differences between circuit courts concerning the application of the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), which was intended to protect the privacy of consumers who rented videos (see 2503190047).
A federal judge on Thursday allowed a group of parents to file an appeal instead of an amended complaint in a previously dismissed child privacy case against an education technology platform. The court released a final judgment one day after the plaintiffs made the request at the U.S. District Court for Central California.
Since an appeals court believes the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and others are unlikely to succeed on the merits of their privacy case that challenges the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) access to sensitive government data, the court overturned a district court's ruling that let AFT temporarily block DOGE.