A court dismissed a class action lawsuit against the NFL that alleged the league violated the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by employing the Meta-tracking pixel without user notice and consent. Issued Friday, the summary order ruled that an "ordinary person" could not determine a user's Facebook ID through the pixel's transmission.
In a decision with nationwide implications, the U.S. District Court for Northern Texas on Wednesday vacated a majority of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's (HIPAA) Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy. A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services motion to dismiss the suit, case 24-00228, was also denied.
Cookies and other tracking technologies were considered simple tools to enhance website users' experience but have become "ground zero" in the data-protection consent space, privacy and cybersecurity attorney Scott Loughlin said at a June 12 Hogan Lovells webinar.
The reasoning behind court decisions to grant or deny class certification in recent privacy cases serves to show what parts of a website are most open to lawsuits and warn businesses to ensure their privacy policies and practices are up to par, according to two Fisher Phillips blogs.
Parents pushed back against an education technology company's assertion Friday that it can collect student data without parental consent, calling it “hostile to children’s rights.”
Plaintiffs in 13 class-action lawsuits against New York University proposed on Monday to consolidate their claims into a single complaint that the university violated their privacy rights. NYU is accused of exposing personally identifiable information (PII) during a cybersecurity incident as a result of its inadequate protective measures.
The Nebraska attorney general filed a lawsuit against online marketplace Temu on Thursday, alleging privacy and consumer protection violations. The state seeks to stop Temu from collecting, maintaining and using consumers' personally identifiable information (PII).
A federal judge tossed a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) suit against Amazon on Tuesday, ruling that the plaintiffs didn't state claims alleging true violations of the statute. Judge James Robart granted Amazon's motion to dismiss, agreeing that there were no plausible allegations that Prime members' personally identifiable information (PII) was actually disclosed to company affiliates.
Instructure, an educational technology firm, asked a federal court to dismiss a privacy suit against it, alleging it has federal and state authorization for its actions. The suit comes from a group of parents who claim their school-aged children’s data was collected and sold without their knowledge or consent.
A federal court’s decision to consolidate more than 2,400 individual arbitration claims into a single class-action complaint against a clothing retailer for its use of pixel-tracking technologies highlights two litigation trends: leveraging old laws for new technologies and the common practice of individuals with the same counsel filing identical arbitration claims and demands, said a privacy lawyer at Robinson+Cole.