The U.S. District Court for Northern California denied Google’s motion to reject a request by almost 70,000 claimants in a class action suit about recording Google Assistant conversations without consent Friday. This allows the claimants to leave the class suit and file individual arbitrations against Google.
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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a $725 million class-action settlement against Meta Thursday, despite opponents claiming the deal is inadequate and that the social media company should pay more. The suit accuses Meta, parent company of Facebook, of violating user privacy by allowing advertisers and partners to harvest user data without their consent.
An Amazon spokesperson denied any wrongdoing in response to a location data class action filed under Washington state's My Health My Data Act. The complaint alleged that Amazon harvested the location data of users without their consent (see 2502120053).
The first class-action complaint under Washington’s 2024 My Health My Data Act was filed Monday against Amazon for allegedly harvesting the location data of users without their consent.
Members of the advocacy group Oakland Privacy traveled to Chicago on Jan. 30 to tell a federal court in person that the proposed class action settlement resolving claims against Clearview AI for allegedly scraping facial images off the internet and then selling them to law enforcement is inadequate, the coalition said in a press release Tuesday.
Meta defended a $725 million class action settlement Friday at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, with the Facebook parent urging a rejection of the opponents' arguments that the deal is inadequate.
Illinois legislators introduced a slew of privacy measures last week, including a comprehensive bill, Delete Act proposal and multiple updates to the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).
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.