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UnitedHealthcare increased its estimate of individuals affected by the February 2024 Change Healthcare data breach to 190 million individuals, nearly double its earlier estimate of 100 million.
New Jersey's Essex County Superior Court ordered a dismissal of the lawsuit against social media platform TikTok over kids safety and mental health concerns on Saturday. New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin filed the complaint in October, alleging TikTok violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the state’s consumer protection law.
"A strong data privacy bill must include a private right of action to allow … individuals to bring a lawsuit when they suffer actual damages,” Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark (D) said Monday. At a livestreamed press conference, Clark supported state Rep. Monique Priestley (D) in reintroducing a privacy bill that Gov. Phil Scott (R) vetoed last year. Priestley said the 2025 bill will also include data minimization rules, despite business concerns stemming from Maryland’s law, which includes such requirements.
TikTok submitted a motion to dismiss a lawsuit that New York state brought against it in a memorandum on Wednesday in a case alleging violation of consumer protection and product-liability laws. TikTok based its motion to dismiss on the grounds that the plaintiff’s claims are legally defective, and because New York failed “to state a cause of action,” according to the court document.
Class action lawsuits surrounding cybersecurity breaches have risen significantly in recent years and 2024 was no exception, lawyers said during a Practising Law Institute event Thursday. Speakers discussed trends from 2024 concerning litigation about data privacy, cybersecurity breaches and the Telephone Consumer Privacy Act.
Video telematics and fleet management products provider Lytx denied violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) in an email Wednesday following settlement of a class-action lawsuit over the company's driver-monitoring technologies (see 2501210054).
The 15th Texas Court of Appeals ruled last week that Google is allowed to question Texas officials in a lawsuit alleging that the corporation unlawfully collected biometric privacy data of millions of Texas residents without their consent.
A proposed Missouri Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) would include a private right of action. State Sen. Nick Schroer (R) proposed SB-118 on Wednesday.
New technologies such as the use of pixels have led to a surge -- beginning in 2022 -- of litigation involving older privacy laws because newer legislation lacks a private right of action, privacy lawyers said during a webinar Wednesday.