Google opposed a motion from a group of consumers asking the company to pay $2.36 billion in addition to a $425 million verdict handed down against it over privacy violations in September. In a court document filed Wednesday, Google said the request is “wildly disproportionate, technically infeasible, and contrary to the public interest.”
Texas gives no good reason for a federal court to uphold the state’s app store age-verification law, the Computer & Communications Industry Association said Thursday.
Possibly ending a wave of privacy litigation in Arizona resembling action brought under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), an Arizona state court has rejected a case claiming that marketing emails with tracking pixels violated the state’s Telephone, Utility and Communication Service Records Act (TUCSRA), Womble Bond lawyers said in a blog post Wednesday.
The city of San Jose’s police department’s practice of using automated license plate readers (ALPRs) to conduct location searches without obtaining a warrant beforehand violates California's constitution, privacy advocates alleged in a lawsuit Tuesday. The suit also complained that the department holds drivers' data for a year.
A late October federal court decision dismissing a case that claimed violations of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) has provided “a clear roadmap” for dispatching litigation under the old wiretapping statute, Akin Gump lawyers said in a blog post Monday.
Salesforce, TransUnion, Louis Vuitton and Qantas Airlines failed to protect the personally identifiable information (PII) of customers in a hub-and-spoke data breach this year, according to a class-action lawsuit filed against the companies earlier this month in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Yet Salesforce told us Tuesday its network was not violated in the breaches.
A Nebraska state court allowed a lawsuit against three health care providers to continue, ruling the state's charges that the companies violated its consumer protection and data security laws were sufficient, the attorney general said Thursday.
NetChoice sued Virginia on Monday over a social media law amending the state's privacy statute. The measure under challenge amended the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act to require that social media platforms conduct age verification and set a one-hour daily time limit for users younger than 16, unless a parent consents for additional time.
The majority of courts have adopted the ordinary person standard when ruling on Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) cases, though reasonable foreseeability has found favor with a few courts too, said a privacy lawyer on The Consumer Finance Podcast Thursday.
An appeals court rejected a California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) suit against Quest Diagnostics. In a ruling posted Thursday, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that a claim could not be brought because “none of [the allegedly shared] data was substantive medical information."