On Monday, a judge for the U.S. District Court of Western Pennsylvania ruled that website privacy statements that disclose third-party data collection do not violate the state's wiretapping laws, throwing out a case against clothing boutique company Harriet Carter, which faced a class action lawsuit for wiretapping claims.
New York University (NYU) was hit with a class action lawsuit on Monday over allegations that it failed to secure the personally identifiable information (PII) of its students, which was accessed in a data breach earlier in March. Data thieves have used the PII to commit identity theft and fraud, said the plaintiffs, who are current and former NYU students.
Connecticut Sen. James Maroney (D) took the middle ground in a private right of action (PRA) debate between Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark (D) and Mariner Strategies President Andrew Kingman at a Federal Communications Bar Association New England event Tuesday. The panelists agreed that a national comprehensive privacy law is unlikely soon.
The bankruptcy of biotechnology company 23andMe is raising privacy concerns about the future of customers' sensitive genetic data. Democratic and Republican state AGs and the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office said they're monitoring the situation.
A recent decision in a Florida privacy class action lawsuit shows how older wiretapping statutes could be applied to modern pixel tracking cases, Sidley Austin attorneys said Wednesday.
In an apparent win for industry, the Vermont Senate Institutions Committee voted 5-0 Thursday to replace the text of a comprehensive privacy bill (S-71) with that of S-93. S-93, which the Vermont Chamber of Commerce and other business groups preferred, lacks a private right of action and is much like Connecticut's privacy law.
Carruth Compliance Consulting has engaged class action law firm Edelson Lechtzin to investigate possible privacy violation claims resulting from a data breach that Carruth found in some of its computer systems, the law firm said Thursday. Carruth provides administrative support to public school districts and non-profit organizations for managing retirement plans.
Kids and their guardians on Wednesday urged the U.S. District Court for Central California to continue pursuing a class-action complaint against TikTok alleging the social media platform invaded the privacy of users younger than 13, a violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and other laws. TikTok filed a motion to dismiss on Jan. 29 on the basis that the plaintiffs never identified what personal information was collected from them, or how that caused them harm.
The U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania Tuesday approved a $6.8 million settlement between Rite Aid and class-action plaintiffs in a data-breach case where the drugstore chain exposed the personally identifiable information (PII) of more than 2 million people in 2024.
The U.S. District Court for Southern New York ruled Tuesday that media company Springer Nature cannot dismiss a class-action complaint over alleged violations of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA). The defendant argued the plaintiff fails to state a claim for relief under the act because Springer Nature is not a video tape service provider nor do they plaintiffs’ qualify as consumers under the VPPA.