While many Meta Pixel privacy suits contain “dramatic” pleadings, a recently issued district court decision is “grounding these cases back in reality,” said Troutman Amin lawyer Keerti Jaya in a blog post Wednesday.
Though a deal was reached allowing TikTok to continue operating in the U.S., the social media platform still faces consumer protection suits from states accusing it of harming children, said Fox Rothschild lawyer Bradley Risinger in a blog post this week.
The DOJ’s new Bulk Data Transfer Rule provides an avenue to bring claims under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), said IAPP staff member William Simpson in a blog post Monday.
A recent decision by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissing a class action that claimed the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) and California Medical Information Act (CMIA) violations provides useful insight for organizations facing charges under these statutes, Troutman lawyers said in a blog post.
A federal judge preliminarily approved a proposed settlement in a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) case against Limited Run Games, a video game distributor.
A federal court denied the Maryland attorney general’s motion to dismiss a case about the constitutionality of the Maryland Age-Appropriate Design Code (MAADC) Act on Monday. Judge Richard Bennett ruled that trade group NetChoice “stated a plausible cause of action,” allowing the case to move ahead.
The U.S. District Court for Western Texas set a hearing for 10 a.m. CT on Dec. 16 on a preliminary injunction against the state’s app store age-verification law. SB-2420, set to go into effect Jan. 1, requires app stores to verify the age of users, so that kids younger than 18 cannot download certain apps or make in-app purchases without parental consent.
Advertising technology company Index Exchange intercepted and then transmitted users’ online communications and sensitive data to Chinese-owned e-commerce platform Temu, violating federal privacy and national security laws, a plaintiff alleged in an amended class-action complaint Friday.
NetChoice asked a federal court Friday to approve a preliminary injunction against a Virginia social media law amending the state's privacy statute. The motion comes just days after the trade association sued the state over the amendment, which would require that social media platforms conduct age verification and set a one-hour daily limit for users younger than 16, unless they obtain parental consent for more time (see 2511170060).
Meta said it's happy with a $190 million settlement resolving a lawsuit alleging violations of user privacy in connection with the 2016 Cambridge Analytica scandal. Mark Zuckerberg and other current and former Meta senior executives agreed to pay, according to a news report Thursday.