NetChoice and the Utah attorney general exchanged letters Tuesday and Wednesday in a case that challenges a state law requiring age assurance for social media account holders is legal.
Vermont Public Interest Research Group (VPIRG) requested that it be added as a defendant in a case where the DOJ ordered the state to turn over its voter data. The court document, filed Tuesday at U.S. District Court for Vermont, is another in a flurry of moves from groups and individuals asking to join their state’s legal battles (see 2512190063).
Plaintiffs have two weeks to amend a class action lawsuit claiming Tesla violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), the U.S. District Court for Central California said in a ruling filed Monday in case 5:25-cv-01982 (see 2512050017).
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) can use Medicaid data in deportation cases, a federal judge ruled Monday in a victory for the Trump administration (see 2507010060 and 2508130031).
Companies hosting virtual meetings should be cognizant of how third-party tools are using biometric data, as evidenced by a recent lawsuit in Illinois, Robinson+Cole privacy attorney Kathryn Rattigan said in a post Wednesday.
A December court order on a privacy class action against Universal Music Group (UMG) shows how critical it is for businesses to align data practices with what users are promised in cookie banners, privacy attorneys said in blog posts this week.
The eleventh-hour freezing of a Texas app store age-verification law made for the “Happiest of Holidays,” Frankfurt Kurnit lawyer Emma Smizer blogged Tuesday after the U.S. District Court for Western Texas ruled that the Texas App Store Accountability Act likely violates the First Amendment (see 2512230062).
Opposition to DOJ’s request for sensitive voter data from California was the subject of an amicus brief that a group of former department employees filed Monday in the government's case against the state. The summoning of voter data is “inconsistent with prior DOJ practice,” nor can it be “justified by any of the authorities” invoked, the coalition of ex-DOJ attorneys argued in their brief Monday.
Like many companies, it's ADI Global Distribution's policy to avoid commenting on active litigation, yet the firm, which is in the middle of a state action against it (see 2512220017), emphasized its commitment to protecting customers' information in a statement to Privacy Daily on Tuesday.
A federal court’s recent decision to allow California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) and other claims to continue against Six Flags amusement park company represents the trend of judges to view data privacy violations as plausible, said Troutman Amin lawyer Puja Amin in a blog post Monday.