A federal court's dismissal of a California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) case claiming a TikTok tool was a "trap and trace device" shows plaintiffs' claims must match the statute's definitions exactly, or they risk having the case tossed before getting "to the starting gate," Troutman Amin's Keerti Jaya said in a blog post Monday.
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Meta faces a claim that it operates as a pen register device, prohibited under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), after a federal court declined to drop the claim from a pixel tax-filing case Wednesday.
As privacy litigation under older laws has exploded, some have called for amending decades-old statutes often at the center of lawsuits so that they aren't applied to modern technologies. The California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) in particular has been subject to more scrutiny as litigation has increased (see 2503030050).
A recently dismissed case involving the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) and email tracking shows courts are increasingly questioning whether the old statute applies to internet communications, said privacy lawyer David Klein in a blog post Friday. However, CIPA lawsuits will likely continue despite this growing trend, the Klein Moynihan attorney said.
Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) when it intentionally eavesdropped on users of the health app Flo Health and received sensitive data on users' menstrual cycles and reproductive health, said a federal jury decision Friday that was posted Monday. The plaintiffs alleged Flo transmitted their personal information without user consent to the social media platform and other third parties for commercial purposes.
Tesla was hit with a class-action suit Thursday alleging California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) violations through the car company's use of tracking pixels on its website without the knowledge or consent of visitors. Plaintiff Peter Dawidzik alleged that the company uses the trackers to collect detailed user information like IP addresses, pages visited, mouse movements and even geolocation based on IP, and then shares the data with third parties such as Twitter and Google.
A class-action complaint alleging a software company created and sold consumer profiles without their consent will continue, the U.S. District Court for Northern California ruled on Friday.
Google continued to claim it acted lawfully in a reply Monday about a case alleging the company intentionally captured communications between health providers and patients containing identifiable private health information (PHI). Google has fought the privacy case since 2023.
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