Tesla asked a federal court Thursday to drop a California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) class action claiming the carmaker unlawfully used tracking technologies on its website, calling the plaintiff’s allegations “unpersuasive.”
The Department of Homeland Security has unlawfully made changes to a system containing the personal information of citizens and non-citizens that allows government agencies to check immigration status and enable voter roll purges, a coalition of advocacy groups said this week.
A recent Illinois Supreme Court ruling involving the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) could limit consumers’ ability to bring suits in the state for violations without harm, said Saul Ewing lawyer Brian Willet in a blog post Tuesday.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
Health care technology firm Doctor Alliance may have suffered a breach that leaked the sensitive records of more than 1 million customers, a law firm investigating the incident said 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."