A federal court in California dismissed a case accusing Apple of improperly collecting and using mobile device users’ data. Judge Edward Davila on Tuesday ruled the plaintiffs failed to state a claim under many of the statutes they invoked. He also found other parts of their case wanting.
A Jan. 14 decision in a Florida federal court gave “a green light” to privacy plaintiffs looking to pursue digital wiretapping claims over common tracking practices on websites, said Fisher Phillips lawyers in a blog post Friday. In the case, the U.S. District Court for Southern Florida allowed Electronic Communication Privacy Act (ECPA) and California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) claims to continue.
The lead plaintiff in a class action against Spring Fertility Holdings doubled down Monday on claims that the provider unlawfully collected and used confidential patient information, providing data about treatments and care to Meta and LinkedIn in real time.
Paramount Skydance and Pluto asked a federal court Thursday to drop a privacy class action alleging they collected personally identifiable information (PII) from their child-directed video platform and sold it to advertisers. Skydance and Pluto argue the plaintiffs don't claim injuries under any privacy-related torts.
Plaintiffs filed an amended complaint in a case against SeatGeek since they failed to claim harm against them in the original suit. Filed Wednesday, the amended complaint again charges the ticketing service with violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) by using tracking technologies without consent.
Since 2022, restaurants have found themselves the target of litigation regarding tracking technologies they use on their websites, especially in California. But Fisher Phillips attorneys Usama Kahf and Darcey Groden posted several ways eating establishments can mitigate the risk of going to court.
As the privacy landscape continues to evolve, companies may find it difficult to manage regulator expectations of compliance and consumer demands as outlined in lawsuits, said Julie Rubash, chief privacy officer for Sourcepoint, a vendor.
Despite stricter court rulings and limits on the use of older statutes to regulate newer technologies, 2025's increase in privacy litigation, especially around tracking technologies, looks set to continue into 2026, said privacy lawyers in interviews. Additionally, the potential for lawmakers clarifying the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) could push litigators to bring cases at even faster rates this year as they hope to file before an amendment becomes effective, one lawyer said.
Plaintiffs have two weeks to amend a class action lawsuit claiming Tesla violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), the U.S. District Court for Central California said in a ruling filed Monday in case 5:25-cv-01982 (see 2512050017).
A federal court’s recent decision to allow California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) and other claims to continue against Six Flags amusement park company represents the trend of judges to view data privacy violations as plausible, said Troutman Amin lawyer Puja Amin in a blog post Monday.