Nvidia continued using cookies to track user browsing activities despite consumers opting out, said a class-action complaint Friday at the U.S. District Court for Northern California. The tech company's behavior is an “egregious privacy violation and total breach of consumer trust,” said the complaint (case 5:25-cv-09160).
Bitcoin Depot suffered a data breach in June 2024, but since there were no concrete harms, a class-action against the company should be dismissed, Bitcoin argued in a motion Monday at the U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia.
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.
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.
A federal court recently added to the split in thinking on bringing claims against website tracking tools and analytics under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). In this situation, it dismissed a case for lack of standing after the plaintiff failed to allege a concrete injury, said Fisher Phillips lawyers in a blog post Thursday.
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.
As Ohio and NetChoice continue sparring over the constitutionality of an Ohio social media law, the state's attorney general said the trade group "waffles" between its "supposed" goal of protecting children’s First Amendment rights and its "true mission" of keeping “social-media giants free from any regulation."
DOJ said Friday that the government shutdown prevents it from paying its lawyers to continue defending the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) against charges that it improperly accessed sensitive information. As such, DOJ asked a federal court not to resume the case that the American Federation of Government Employees and others brought earlier in the year.
Recent privacy litigation, mainly in Florida, has raised the bar for compliance for businesses using chatbots and other tracking tools on their websites, said Fisher Phillips lawyers in a blog post Thursday.
The Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) can now be applied in the context of website tracking software after a recent U.S. District Court for Western Michigan ruling, according to a Fisher Phillips blog post Thursday. The court ruled that a college was subject to the federal law when it allegedly shared certain user information from its website to third parties.