LinkedIn was hit with a class-action lawsuit Monday in the U.S. District Court for Northern California for allegedly disclosing personally identifiable information (PII) and video viewing activity to Facebook without users’ consent, in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA).
North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson (D) is investigating PowerSchool over the educational platform’s December data breach that touched more than 62.4 million people across the U.S.
The Dutch Foundation for Market Information Research (SOMI) filed four cross-border class actions in Germany against TikTok and X. Announced Wednesday, the multi-billion-euro lawsuits seek injunctive relief and damages for violations of German and EU law, particularly the Digital Services Act (DSA), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and AI Act (AIA). Leipzig, Germany-based law firm Spirit Legal announced the suits.
The U.S. District Court for Massachusetts ruled Friday that it will dismiss a class-action lawsuit against TJX Companies, parent of retailer Marshalls, for lack of jurisdiction and since the plaintiff failed to allege a concrete harm. The plaintiff alleged that a “spy pixel” was embedded in TJX's promotional emails, which collected information from the receivers without their consent, violating the Arizona Telephone, Utility and Communication Service Records Act.
The U.S. District Court of Idaho on Monday denied data broker Kochava's motion to dismiss a case alleging that the broker's data sales are unfair acts or practices likely to cause substantial injury to consumers in violation of Section 5(a) of the FTC Act. Kochava moved to dismiss on the basis that Section 5(a) requires tangible consumer injury and a violation of well-established legal policy, the order said. The court said the "FTC is authorized to seek injunctive relief if it has 'reason to believe' that a business is violating, or is about to violate, a law enforced by the FTC," denying Kochava's motion.
Amazon was hit with a class-action lawsuit Wednesday for allegedly tracking and selling sensitive movement and location data of California residents.
Plaintiff Alessandro De La Torre dropped a class-action complaint against LinkedIn that alleged the company used subscriber data to train its generative AI without consent.
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition to review a case that claimed Facebook allegedly violated privacy and wiretapping laws by tracking users’ internet activity after they exited the social media platform. The ruling rejected questions proposed by an objector to the $90 million settlement in the case relating to the attorney fees and plaintiff service awards.
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Friday that a plaintiff didn't allege actual injury in a class-action suit that claimed medical services group Christie Business Holdings negligently failed to protect its patients’ private personal data when an unknown third party gained unauthorized access to one of the business's emails.
LinkedIn was sued Tuesday after allegedly disclosing Premium customers' private messages to third parties without their permission so it could train generative AI models.