Plaintiffs have two weeks to amend a class action lawsuit claiming Tesla violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), the U.S. District Court for Central California said in a ruling filed Monday in case 5:25-cv-01982 (see 2512050017).
Companies hosting virtual meetings should be cognizant of how third-party tools are using biometric data, as evidenced by a recent lawsuit in Illinois, Robinson+Cole privacy attorney Kathryn Rattigan said in a post Wednesday.
A December court order on a privacy class action against Universal Music Group (UMG) shows how critical it is for businesses to align data practices with what users are promised in cookie banners, privacy attorneys said in blog posts this week.
The group suing Bitcoin Depot over a 2024 data breach said Monday the company's motion seeking a dismissal is a tactical attempt to reduce negative publicity and liability. As such, the plaintiffs asked a federal court to let the case continue, a court document said.
An advertising technology company asked a court to dismiss a class action against it that claimed the firm intercepted and then transmitted users’ online communications and sensitive data to Chinese-owned e-commerce platform Temu.
As tools that collect biometrics and biometric information have become a focus for plaintiffs’ bars in recent years, there were many developments around Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) in 2025, Squire Patton lawyers wrote in a post Thursday.
As lawsuits over tracking technologies increase rapidly, some courts have managed to narrow the scope of older statutes, countering the litigation wave, said panelists during an Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) webinar Wednesday. But other courts remain split on the reach of these laws, they added.
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to forego reviewing a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) case means questions and conflicting rulings on the statute will remain unsettled, leaving businesses in a lurch, David Krueger, privacy litigator at Benesch, told Privacy Daily Monday.
Plaintiffs in a class action against Pepsi who said it violated consumer privacy by placing cookies on browsers of users who had rejected them voluntarily dismissed the suit without prejudice Thursday. They gave no reason why they dropped the case, which was filed under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA).