A recent district court decision blocking enforcement of a Florida social media law requiring age verification (see 2506030057) should serve as a reason to grant a preliminary injunction against similar measures in Tennessee and Mississippi, NetChoice said in court documents Wednesday.
Florida AG James Uthmeier (R) on Tuesday appealed a district court decision that would block enforcement of a state social media law that would prohibit kids 13 and younger from creating social media accounts, as expected. The law also requires parental consent for 14- and 15-year-olds before creating social posts and employs age-verification to implement these restrictions (see 2506030057).
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)'s claim that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is committing "the largest data breach in history" lacks supporting facts, according to DOGE, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). As such, dismissing EPIC's case against DOGE is the best choice, the three federal entities said in a filing Tuesday.
Instructure, an educational technology firm, asked a federal court to dismiss a privacy suit against it, alleging it has federal and state authorization for its actions. The suit comes from a group of parents who claim their school-aged children’s data was collected and sold without their knowledge or consent.
The Trump administration will back off its demand for states to send it the personal data of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) announced Tuesday.
A federal court’s decision to consolidate more than 2,400 individual arbitration claims into a single class-action complaint against a clothing retailer for its use of pixel-tracking technologies highlights two litigation trends: leveraging old laws for new technologies and the common practice of individuals with the same counsel filing identical arbitration claims and demands, said a privacy lawyer at Robinson+Cole.
A Texas federal judge on Thursday threw out a lawsuit against Eyemart Express that alleges the eyewear company tracks users’ activity on its website without consent or disclosing tracking practices. The plaintiffs didn't prove their private health information (PHI) was actually disclosed to a social media platform, Judge David Godbey said in dismissing the case.
The Arkansas attorney general’s plea for a federal court to reverse or amend its ruling enjoining a social media safety act must “be rejected out of hand,” NetChoice said in a court brief Monday. The U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas previously sided with the tech association, ruling the safety act unconstitutional for violating the First and 14th Amendments (see 2504010044).
A case about a health-tracking app that allegedly unlawfully shared sensitive health information with third parties without user consent could preview how courts will address data privacy and user consent issues, Fisher Phillips lawyers said in a blog post Friday. Case 21-00757, Frasco v. Flo Health, Inc., alleges that the reproductive tracker app Flo transmitted personal information without user consent to third parties for commercial purposes, in violation of several California laws.
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against TikTok's request that a case alleging the social media platform violated the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act be dismissed. A state circuit court had previously denied a motion to dismiss the case, which TikTok appealed to the Arkansas Supreme Court, asking to halt the case.