Cookies and other tracking technologies were considered simple tools to enhance website users' experience but have become "ground zero" in the data-protection consent space, privacy and cybersecurity attorney Scott Loughlin said at a June 12 Hogan Lovells webinar.
The reasoning behind court decisions to grant or deny class certification in recent privacy cases serves to show what parts of a website are most open to lawsuits and warn businesses to ensure their privacy policies and practices are up to par, according to two Fisher Phillips blogs.
Parents pushed back against an EdTech company's assertion Friday that it can collect student data without parental consent, calling it “hostile to children’s rights.”
Plaintiffs in 13 class-action lawsuits against New York University proposed on Monday to consolidate their claims into a single complaint that the university violated their privacy rights. NYU is accused of exposing personally identifiable information (PII) during a cybersecurity incident as a result of its inadequate protective measures.
The Nebraska attorney general filed a lawsuit against online marketplace Temu on Thursday, alleging privacy and consumer protection violations. The state seeks to stop Temu from collecting, maintaining and using consumers' personally identifiable information (PII).
A federal judge tossed a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) suit against Amazon on Tuesday, ruling that the plaintiffs didn't state claims alleging true violations of the statute. Judge James Robart granted Amazon's motion to dismiss, agreeing that there were no plausible allegations that Prime members' personally identifiable information (PII) was actually disclosed to company affiliates.
Instructure, an educational technology firm, asked a federal court to dismiss a privacy suit against it, alleging it has federal and state authorization for its actions. The suit comes from a group of parents who claim their school-aged children’s data was collected and sold without their knowledge or consent.
A federal court’s decision to consolidate more than 2,400 individual arbitration claims into a single class-action complaint against a clothing retailer for its use of pixel-tracking technologies highlights two litigation trends: leveraging old laws for new technologies and the common practice of individuals with the same counsel filing identical arbitration claims and demands, said a privacy lawyer at Robinson+Cole.
A Texas federal judge on Thursday threw out a lawsuit against Eyemart Express that alleges the eyewear company tracks users’ activity on its website without consent or disclosing tracking practices. The plaintiffs didn't prove their private health information (PHI) was actually disclosed to a social media platform, Judge David Godbey said in dismissing the case.
A case about a health-tracking app that allegedly unlawfully shared sensitive health information with third parties without user consent could preview how courts will address data privacy and user consent issues, Fisher Phillips lawyers said in a blog post Friday. Case 21-00757, Frasco v. Flo Health, Inc., alleges that the reproductive tracker app Flo transmitted personal information without user consent to third parties for commercial purposes, in violation of several California laws.