Google renewed its call for a federal court to dismiss a class-action case against it that alleges the company's education products secretly harvest mass amounts of student information and data without their or their parents’ knowledge or consent. In its motion to dismiss, Google claims the plaintiffs -- parents of minor schoolchildren -- haven't alleged invasion of privacy.
Technology service provider Capgemini America asked a federal court Thursday to dismiss a privacy suit from MoneyGram Payment Systems that alleges Capgemini is responsible for a recent data breach. In the motion to dismiss, Capgemini said it lacked access to "the personal data of MoneyGram’s customers."
A federal judge granted class action certification on Monday in a 2021 case alleging Amazon unlawfully recorded and collected private conversations through its virtual assistant Alexa, without notice or consent. Case 21-00750 alleges violation of six states’ wiretap laws and Washington state’s Consumer Protection Act.
Effective Tuesday, an amendment to the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) that enhances protections for biometric identifiers widens the scope of whom the privacy law applies to and forces companies to review their policies, said privacy lawyers. Enacted as HB-1130 in June 2024, the measure compels entities that collect biometric data to meet stringent notice and consent requirements if they use or intend to use it for unique identification (see 2406030010).
Education technology vendor Instructure renewed its request that a district court dismiss a privacy suit against it, arguing that the plaintiffs failed to allege constitutional violations or invasion of privacy, and didn't prove violations of California law.
Affirming a circuit court's earlier ruling, an Illinois appellate court Tuesday certified class for railway workers who want to file a class-action suit claiming violations of the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Plaintiffs in case 1-24-1961 allege that railway industry service provider ITS Technologies' use of employee biometric information for time clocks violates the state statute.
Microsoft sought dismissal of a lawsuit alleging it improperly collects ad data in a way that mimics surveillance and can identify individual users. It argued Monday that plaintiffs in case 25-00570 -- individuals who used Microsoft to access various websites -- were attempting to "stretch common-law privacy and wiretap laws beyond their intended scope.”
A court dismissed a class action lawsuit against the NFL that alleged the league violated the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by employing the Meta-tracking pixel without user notice and consent. Issued Friday, the summary order ruled that an "ordinary person" could not determine a user's Facebook ID through the pixel's transmission.
In a decision with nationwide implications, the U.S. District Court for Northern Texas on Wednesday vacated a majority of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's (HIPAA) Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy. A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services motion to dismiss the suit, case 24-00228, was also denied.
Cookies and other tracking technologies were considered simple tools to enhance website users' experience but have become "ground zero" in the data-protection consent space, privacy and cybersecurity attorney Scott Loughlin said at a June 12 Hogan Lovells webinar.