Google agreed to pay a group of private law firms that worked alongside Texas up to $190 million in legal fees associated with a privacy case about the company's unlawful tracking and collecting of users' personal information, according to a signed order filed in a Texas state court Monday.
Some privacy lawyers for businesses are taking a judge’s condemnation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act as a potential rallying cry for passing a bill to overhaul CIPA. The California legislature this year decided to postpone consideration on such a bill (SB-690) until 2026 due to consumer privacy concerns. But in an Oct. 17 decision, U.S. District Court of Northern California Judge Vince Chhabria recommended legislative action, writing that the “state of affairs with CIPA is untenable.”
Florida and Michigan focused recent privacy complaints against Roku on the streaming box maker's partnerships with data brokers, Holland & Knight lawyers noted in a blog post Friday.
An appeals court in a months-long case challenging Tennessee's social-media law should approach its decision as other state courts have and reject the measure, NetChoice argued in a court document Friday.
Virginia's lawsuit against TikTok and parent company ByteData may continue, a state court ruled Friday.
As the scope and usage of facial recognition technology increases, privacy advocates are increasingly concerned about a lack of regulation as well as carve-outs in instances where rules exist, they said in interviews with Privacy Daily. But there are existing laws that cover the technology, some contended.
While there hasn't been a big headline for privacy in 2025, many important smaller developments occurred, George Washington University law professor Daniel Solove and Red Clover Advisors CEO Jodi Daniels said during a webinar Solove hosted Thursday.
Florida’s privacy lawsuit last week against Roku surprised some data-protection experts, since the state’s Digital Bill of Rights frequently carries an asterisk in lists of the 20 state comprehensive privacy laws -- if it’s included at all. In the aftermath, however, some privacy experts told Privacy Daily that they’re still not ready to add Florida to the list.
An Albany-based accounting firm will pay $60,000 to settle with New York state in a data breach case, the attorney general's office said Monday. The AG's office said that the firm, Wojeski & Co., failed to adequately protect client data and notify customers of breaches, which exposed more than 6,000 individuals' personal information during two cybersecurity incidents. The firm waited more than one year before it notified victims of the first data breach, the state office said.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) cheered a federal court decision Wednesday that halts the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) demand for state data about Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients. However, it warned the personal information of millions of Americans remains at risk.