The U.S. District Court for Western Texas set a hearing for 10 a.m. CT on Dec. 16 on a preliminary injunction against the state’s app store age-verification law. SB-2420, set to go into effect Jan. 1, requires app stores to verify the age of users, so that kids younger than 18 cannot download certain apps or make in-app purchases without parental consent.
Advertising technology company Index Exchange intercepted and then transmitted users’ online communications and sensitive data to Chinese-owned e-commerce platform Temu, violating federal privacy and national security laws, a plaintiff alleged in an amended class-action complaint Friday.
NetChoice asked a federal court Friday to approve a preliminary injunction against a Virginia social media law amending the state's privacy statute. The motion comes just days after the trade association sued the state over the amendment, which would require that social media platforms conduct age verification and set a one-hour daily limit for users younger than 16, unless they obtain parental consent for more time (see 2511170060).
Meta said it's happy with a $190 million settlement resolving a lawsuit alleging violations of user privacy in connection with the 2016 Cambridge Analytica scandal. Mark Zuckerberg and other current and former Meta senior executives agreed to pay, according to a news report Thursday.
Google opposed a motion from a group of consumers asking the company to pay $2.36 billion in addition to a $425 million verdict handed down against it over privacy violations in September. In a court document filed Wednesday, Google said the request is “wildly disproportionate, technically infeasible, and contrary to the public interest.”
Texas gives no good reason for a federal court to uphold the state’s app store age-verification law, the Computer & Communications Industry Association said Thursday.
Possibly ending a wave of privacy litigation in Arizona resembling action brought under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), an Arizona state court has rejected a case claiming that marketing emails with tracking pixels violated the state’s Telephone, Utility and Communication Service Records Act (TUCSRA), Womble Bond lawyers said in a blog post Wednesday.
The city of San Jose’s police department’s practice of using automated license plate readers (ALPRs) to conduct location searches without obtaining a warrant beforehand violates California's constitution, privacy advocates alleged in a lawsuit Tuesday. The suit also complained that the department holds drivers' data for a year.
A late October federal court decision dismissing a case that claimed violations of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) has provided “a clear roadmap” for dispatching litigation under the old wiretapping statute, Akin Gump lawyers said in a blog post Monday.
Salesforce, TransUnion, Louis Vuitton and Qantas Airlines failed to protect the personally identifiable information (PII) of customers in a hub-and-spoke data breach this year, according to a class-action lawsuit filed against the companies earlier this month in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Yet Salesforce told us Tuesday its network was not violated in the breaches.