Four porn sites were sued Monday for allegedly failing to implement age verification on their websites as Kansas law requires, announced the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) Law Center, co-counsel for the suits. Filed on behalf of a 14-year-old minor in the U.S. District Court for Kansas, the suits are the first in the U.S. that challenge violations of age-verification laws, NCOSE said.
A Tennessee public school system sued software provider PowerSchool over a breach in December 2024 where hackers stole student and teacher data. The complaint alleges breach of contract, false advertising and negligence as a result of personal information being accessed by bad actors.
A proposed settlement has been reached in a case involving Google's alleged violation of children's privacy, according to a joint court document filed Friday.
A fourth amended class action complaint was filed Friday in a case alleging NBCUniversal Media (NBCU) violated the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) through its use of the Meta tracking pixel. The case, Golden v. NBCUniversal Media, was previously dismissed when the U.S. District Court for Southern New York ruled that the plaintiff did not count as a "consumer" under the Act, but changed its mind following the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling in a VPPA case in October (see 2501100009).
Court cases on Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to people’s sensitive information are developing precedents that will shape privacy protections in government data sharing, said an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) official at a partly virtual University of Illinois privacy conference Thursday.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) renewed its call for a court to require that the Social Security Administration (SSA) promptly process its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents related to possible privacy violations.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sought a preliminary injunction against an Illinois workplace privacy law on Wednesday, alleging that certain sections of it infringe on the federal government's ability to conduct immigration enforcement.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed an amended complaint Tuesday renewing allegations that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is committing the "largest and most consequential data breach" through its access to private information at federal agencies.
Washington University School of Law professor Neil Richards will serve as consumer privacy ombudsman in 23andMe’s bankruptcy sale, DOJ’s Office of the U.S. Trustee told the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Eastern Missouri in a filing Tuesday (see 2504290056). The U.S. Trustee office appointed Richards after reaching an agreement with the company.
Former FTC Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya pushed back on the president’s claims that he has the constitutional right to fire them. In a reply brief Monday, the two again asked a district court to grant summary judgment in their favor.