Advertising technology company Index Exchange intercepted and then transmitted users’ online communications and sensitive data to Chinese-owned e-commerce platform Temu, violating federal privacy and national security laws, a plaintiff alleged in an amended class-action complaint Friday.
Google opposed a motion from a group of consumers asking the company to pay $2.36 billion in addition to a $425 million verdict handed down against it over privacy violations in September. In a court document filed Wednesday, Google said the request is “wildly disproportionate, technically infeasible, and contrary to the public interest.”
Salesforce, TransUnion, Louis Vuitton and Qantas Airlines failed to protect the personally identifiable information (PII) of customers in a hub-and-spoke data breach this year, according to a class-action lawsuit filed against the companies earlier this month in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Yet Salesforce told us Tuesday its network was not violated in the breaches.
Health care technology firm Doctor Alliance may have suffered a breach that leaked the sensitive records of more than 1 million customers, a law firm investigating the incident said Thursday.
An appeals court rejected a California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) suit against Quest Diagnostics. In a ruling posted Thursday, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that a claim could not be brought because “none of [the allegedly shared] data was substantive medical information."
Plaintiffs voluntarily dropped a class-action privacy case against Target on Wednesday, saying discovery disproved their allegation that the retail giant used facial recognition technology (FRT) in its stores.
Dollar Tree violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) when it failed to remove third-party tracking technology from its website after consumers chose to reject advertising cookies, said an amended class-action lawsuit Thursday.
Geography places boundaries on California's privacy statutes, though courts and lawmakers could feel pressure to clarify these limits or even expand them, said Robinson+Cole lawyer Kathryn Rattigan in a blog post Thursday.
Texas announced a lawsuit against Roblox on Thursday in state court for violating state and federal online safety laws via its conduct with children. It follows several other state attorneys general who have filed similar litigation against the gaming platform.
Facial recognition technology (FRT) deployment in stadiums can facilitate safety and security, though its use raises privacy and cybersecurity concerns, said Orrick lawyers in a Monday blog post.