California and Maryland parents on Monday appealed a child privacy case against an education technology platform to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The U.S. District Court for Central California ruled in favor of Instructure earlier this month, saying the parents failed to plausibly allege specific facts about the taking or use of data (see 2508050033).
The need to succeed in AI must happen “without sacrificing the well-being of our kids in the process," said a bipartisan coalition of 44 state and territory attorneys general in a Monday letter to several Big Tech organizations. The AGs notified the companies, including Anthropic, Apple, Chai AI, Google, Luka, Meta, Microsoft, Nomi AI, Open AI, Perplexity AI, Replika and Xai, that they “will be held accountable for [their] decisions.”
The breach and subsequent lawsuit against a winemaker that allegedly compromised the data of 26,000 customers "underscores the vulnerability of companies handling sensitive customer information," McDermott Will lawyers said in a blog post Thursday.
A Florida social media law that would prohibit children 13 and younger from creating social media accounts is content-neutral and furthers governmental interests in protecting them from online harms, said a bipartisan coalition of 27 states and Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
Though California is the leader in privacy legislation and regulation, other states are stepping up their enforcement actions, said a blog post last week by McGuire Woods lawyers. Recent actions by Connecticut and Nebraska attorneys general "highlight an important shift: states beyond California are not only enacting laws aimed at safeguarding privacy, they are taking action to demonstrate that those laws have teeth," they wrote.
This month's D.C. Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision in Pileggi v. Washington Newspaper further widened the circuit split on the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), increasing the likelihood that the U.S. Supreme Court will review the 1988 federal statute, privacy lawyers said in interviews with Privacy Daily. The D.C., 2nd, 6th and 7th circuits have ruled on VPPA cases recently without much uniformity.
Google and YouTube will pay a combined $30 million to resolve a children's privacy lawsuit that alleged the companies collected personal data and information without consent and used it to deliver targeted ads in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), California privacy laws and other similar state laws (see 2505120037)
A federal court on Tuesday dismissed a workplace privacy suit that DOJ brought against Illinois, ruling that federal immigration law isn't always absolute. The suit started in May, when DOJ alleged an amendment to Illinois’ Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act violated the Immigration Reform and Control Act (ICRA) of 1986 and other federal laws (see 2505050065).
Companies must understand their websites' tracking technologies and know what data they collect so they can remain compliant. This is especially so within the healthcare sector, said panelists during an IAPP webinar about Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance Wednesday.
A coalition of 21 states, plus Washington, D.C., asked a federal court Monday to block the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from demanding that they part with the sensitive, personally identifiable information (PII) of millions of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients while litigation is pending about the legality of the agency's request.