Two recent Circuit Court of Appeals cases dealing with the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) of 1988, combined with the 2nd Circuit’s ruling in NBA v. Salazar from October, may have set the stage for a future ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court over whether old laws can be expanded and constitutionally interpreted to apply to new technologies, privacy lawyers say. Others say the circuit split may be resolve by Congress revisiting the statute.
Google was hit with a class-action complaint Monday alleging the company's education products secretly harvest mass amounts of student information and data without their or their parents’ knowledge or consent.
Testers, those who seek privacy violations with the goal of filing lawsuits, lack Article III standing to sue for pen register and wiretapping infractions under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), according to a decision from the U.S. District Court for Central California Friday.
Yahoo was sued Thursday in the U.S. Court of Southern New York for violating user privacy after allegedly deploying tracking technology that compiled profiles of users based on data and information obtained without their knowledge or consent.
Adobe's use of tracking tools embedded in websites to collect and then monetize vast amounts of users' personal information violates the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) and other privacy laws, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for Northern California.
Microsoft tracks and indefinitely records the personally identifiable information (PII) and internet activity of millions of Americans through its advertising and analytics platform and profits off that information, according to allegations in a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for Western Washington.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed Thursday with a district court decision and dismissed a case alleging violations of the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), taking a narrow view of what it means to be a "consumer." However, one of the three judges, Rachel Bloomekatz, issued a dissent from most of the decision.
Despite granting a dismissal of several claims, the U.S. District Court for Northern California refused to toss allegations of violations of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) in its ruling Monday in a class-action case against streaming service Mubi.
Lafayette Federal Credit Union (LFCU) was hit Friday with a class-action lawsuit for allegedly failing to safeguard the personal identifiable information (PII) of its customers, which later leaked in a data breach.
Parents from California and Maryland filed a class-action lawsuit Thursday against Instructure, an education technology company, on behalf of their minor children. The parents alleged that the company has monetized the personal information of its users, who are mostly school-aged children, without their consent.