Meta faces a claim that it operates as a pen register device, prohibited under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), after a federal court declined to drop the claim from a pixel tax-filing case Wednesday.
As privacy litigation under older laws has exploded, some have called for amending decades-old statutes often at the center of lawsuits so that they aren't applied to modern technologies. The California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) in particular has been subject to more scrutiny as litigation has increased (see 2503030050).
Satirical news site The Onion asked a federal court Friday to drop a case against it alleging violations of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), on the grounds that the plaintiff lacks standing and because "courts are beginning to 'shut the door for Pixel-based VPPA claims.'” Case 25-05471 alleges the news site deployed a tracking pixel on its site that transmitted a subscriber's personally identifiable information (PII) to third parties without his prior knowledge or consent (see 2505200012).
A recently dismissed case involving the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) and email tracking shows courts are increasingly questioning whether the old statute applies to internet communications, said privacy lawyer David Klein in a blog post Friday. However, CIPA lawsuits will likely continue despite this growing trend, the Klein Moynihan attorney said.
Tesla was hit with a class-action suit Thursday alleging California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) violations through the car company's use of tracking pixels on its website without the knowledge or consent of visitors. Plaintiff Peter Dawidzik alleged that the company uses the trackers to collect detailed user information like IP addresses, pages visited, mouse movements and even geolocation based on IP, and then shares the data with third parties such as Twitter and Google.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner will focus on sectors and technologies that compromise rights and create power and information imbalances, Information Commissioner Elizabeth Tydd said Tuesday as the OAIC released its 2025-2026 agenda.
Recent settlements show the vulnerability of companies that hire privacy vendors and think they're in compliance, Frankfurt Kurnit attorneys said during a webinar Thursday. In addition, they noted that states besides California are becoming more active in privacy litigation and enforcement.
Amazon said a district court wrongly granted class certification in a 2021 case against that alleged the online retail giant unlawfully recorded and collected private conversations through its virtual assistant Alexa. The company appealed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday.
A class-action complaint alleging a software company created and sold consumer profiles without their consent will continue, the U.S. District Court for Northern California ruled on Friday.
Google continued to claim it acted lawfully in a reply Monday about a case alleging the company intentionally captured communications between health providers and patients containing identifiable private health information (PHI). Google has fought the privacy case since 2023.