A fertility clinic Monday called for a lawsuit against it to be dismissed, arguing the plaintiff consented to share data by agreeing to the clinic's privacy notice.
Lenovo violated DOJ’s bulk transfer rule by sharing consumer browsing data with entities in China, plaintiffs alleged in a class-action lawsuit filed Thursday with the U.S. District Court for Northern California (docket 3:26-cv-01133).
Though the FTC and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are unlikely to focus on health care websites and privacy in 2026, health care entities should self-regulate, Davis Wright lawyer Adam Greene said Wednesday.
Ad tech company Index Exchange renewed a request that a federal court dismiss a class action accusing it of intercepting users’ online data and sending it to Temu, a Chinese-owned e-commerce platform.
Plaintiffs let go of a class-action lawsuit accusing Michigan’s Hillsdale College of violating the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) through its use of a tracking pixel to collect website users' information and disclose it to a social media company. The plaintiffs gave no reasoning for Tuesday's voluntary dismissal.
Google will pay $68 million to settle class-action claims that the company violated California law by allowing its voice-activated assistant to spy on smartphone users, according to a settlement proposed Friday in federal court.
Comcast has agreed to pay $117.5 million to settle class-action claims over a 2023 cyberattack that compromised customer data for millions of subscribers. According to the settlement agreement, filed Friday (docket 2:23-cv-05039) in the U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania, the parties said the terms were reached after several mediation sessions in 2024 and 2025. Comcast will deposit the $117.5 million into the settlement fund by March 31, even if the court hasn't yet signed off on preliminary approval, they said. Comcast estimated the settlement class to be about 31.7 million people.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday granted a writ of certiorari in a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) case from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, moving litigation in the area one step closer to receiving clarity on what it means to be a “consumer” under the 1988 federal statute. One privacy lawyer celebrated the high court’s decision, while another compared the proceedings with another VPPA case the high court declined to review in December (see 2512080052).
Google asked a federal court Wednesday to dismiss a class-action complaint alleging that the company activated its Gemini AI tool's features in several of its services without user consent. The plaintiffs failed to provide facts to support their claims, Google said in arguing for ending the case.
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.