Health records database Epic Systems responded to a lawsuit from the Texas attorney general Tuesday, calling its charges unsupported by law. Epic also said it will file a motion to dismiss the suit that claims it acts illegally as a gatekeeper of patient records.
DOJ sued Virginia on Friday after the state refused to submit sensitive voter information to the federal government.
Groups fighting a DOJ lawsuit where the federal government demanded Vermont's voter data asked a federal court Thursday to dismiss the government's complaint. They argued that DOJ failed to make proper claims and that collecting sensitive voter information from the state violates federal law.
A judge ruled Thursday that the federal government violated the Privacy Act of 1974 when it ordered California to turn over full voter registration lists with sensitive personal data. As such, the judge dismissed DOJ’s lawsuit against California, the first of more than 20 similar cases against states and the District of Columbia. Those other 23 parties should be "very interested" in this ruling, an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) staff attorney said Friday in an interview.
Enforcement can ramp up in periods when less legislation is going into effect, panelists said during a webinar Thursday hosted by the vendor Osano.
A proposed South Carolina law requiring an age-appropriate design code (AADC) passed the House on Wednesday. Members voted 112-0 in favor of H-3431, with an amendment. While the Senate passed the bill on May 6 by a 45-0 vote, senators must re-vote to concur with House changes.
Enforcements against Datamasters and S&P Global showed the California Privacy Protection Agency (CalPrivacy) applying penalties to small and large data brokers -- without leniency for inadvertent errors, lawyers said in interviews with Privacy Daily this week. The Datamasters action also highlighted the agency’s interest in protecting vulnerable groups' data, said Womble Bond’s Tyler Bridegan.
Three motions to dismiss DOJ’s sensitive data case against New Mexico were filed Tuesday, with plaintiffs urging the court to drop case 1:25-cv-01193 since the government failed to identify its legal authority to request the data.
Grassroots voter engagement group Common Cause and individuals who intervened in DOJ’s sensitive data case against Rhode Island urged a federal court to dismiss the case Tuesday, arguing the federal government failed to state a claim. Secretary of State Gregg Amore, the original defendant in the case, also filed a motion to dismiss the case the same day for the same reason.
Days after Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman (R) sued Character.AI under the state's freshly minted comprehensive privacy law (see 2601080053), a lawyer flagged a unique aspect of the statute: the right to cure "only applies to claims for monetary damages."