Class-action plaintiffs using fictitious names in data breach litigation is “a growing trend that raises serious procedural and strategic concerns,” Clark Hill attorneys blogged Friday.
PowerSchool "intends to vigorously defend itself" against the lawsuit that the Texas attorney general filed Wednesday, a spokesperson for the education software company told Privacy Daily in an email. AG Ken Paxton's (R) lawsuit charged that PowerSchool’s failure to protect the personal information of almost 900,000 Texas schoolchildren and educators in a data breach late last year was a violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act (see 2509030059).
A federal court dropped a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) case against NBCUniversal Media (NBCU) Wednesday, ruling that the complaint did not adequately allege the disclosure of personally identifiable information (PII) within the meaning of the statute.
Google will appeal a court ruling that it violated privacy rights of almost 100 million users who asked the company not to track their data, a company spokesperson said following the jury verdict Wednesday. Meanwhile, the $425 million in damages against Google seem low, a privacy attorney said.
Software company PowerSchool’s failure to protect the personal information of almost 900,000 Texas schoolchildren and educators late last year was a violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act, alleged Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in a lawsuit Wednesday (see 2509030050). Texas joined Tennessee (see 2505120026) and a class-action in California (see 2501220057) in suing the company over the incident.
A federal judge dismissed several claims against Chinese technology company ByteDance, including that it violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). But in the Friday ruling, U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois Judge Georgia Alexakis allowed a claim ByteDance violated the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), as well as the restitution and unjust enrichment claim against the company, to continue in the privacy case.
The surge in data breach lawsuits is a result of the rise in breaches and plaintiffs’ lawyers determining that such litigation is a lucrative space, said Jackson Lewis attorneys in a podcast Thursday. Courts are also helping make these suits easier to bring and speed counts, they added.
A recent court decision on West Virginia's Daniel's Law is the first ruling to find a law protecting the privacy of public officials unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds -- and it will likely influence litigation in other states, said Troutman lawyers in a blog post Aug. 22. It could also lead to West Virginia amending its law, a Klein Moynihan lawyer said Monday.
A breach at an Ohio firm that helps patients obtain physician-certified medical marijuana cards may have exposed the sensitive information of more than 900,000 of its customers, a law firm investigating the incident said Tuesday.
Despite technology recording a woman's activity on a shopping site, that wasn't enough for her to claim a concrete privacy injury, an appeals court ruled as it dismissed her class-action suit. Celebrating the decision, advocacy groups said merely invoking the word "privacy" doesn't necessarily equate to a legitimate claim.