A federal court narrowed the scope of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) when it ruled recently that information must be “embarrassing, invasive, or otherwise private” to constitute an injury, said Covington lawyers in a blog post Thursday.
Virginia's lawsuit against TikTok and parent company ByteData may continue, a state court ruled Friday.
The New Jersey Supreme Court agreed to interpret whether the state’s Daniel’s Law imposes strict liability on data brokers for posting private information online, or if proof of intent is required. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asked for the high court to weigh in at the beginning of September (see 2509040054).
The American Federation of Government Employees and other groups asked a federal court to resume a case that challenges Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to sensitive information at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). DOGE's access violated the Privacy Act, the plaintiffs said.
A federal judge dropped a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) claim against a conservative nonprofit Tuesday because he ruled the plaintiffs failed to claim their personally identifiable information (PII) was compromised.
In the latest move in a months-long case, Mississippi urged the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reject an injunction on a state law that requires parental consent for those younger than 18 to create accounts with certain digital service providers.
Google should pay $2.36 billion in addition to a $425 million verdict handed down against it over privacy right violations in September, a group of consumers said Wednesday. That amount is the “net profits attributable to Google’s collection and use of [their] data during the class period,” they said in a court filing. The case began with a complaint in July 2020.
An appeals court should reject NetChoice's petition to rehear a case challenging the constitutionality of a state law that makes it illegal for internet-based services and applications to provide addictive feeds to those younger than 18, California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said Tuesday.
A real estate company that uses prerecorded videos in its business isn't necessarily a video tape service provider as defined by the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), a federal judge ruled as he dropped a VPPA case against a real estate agency Monday.
After a federal judge said the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) was “a total mess” in a ruling Friday, a privacy lawyer touted Judge Vince Chhabria for “call[ing] it like it is.”