The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) on Tuesday released its first annual report, offering an overview of what it has accomplished since voters established it in November 2020.
New York state's attorney general will likely play a more prominent role in privacy and cybersecurity oversight in 2025, said Morrison Foerster lawyers in a blog post Monday.
Amazon and plaintiff Dominic Mayhall announced on Wednesday that they reached a confidential settlement in a case alleging violation of the Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). As part of the settlement, both parties agreed to a dismissal with prejudice of the plaintiff’s claims.
Consumers have until June 5 to file claims for $16.5 million in damages Avast paid to settle allegations it deceived users about data privacy practices, the FTC said Monday.
Despite the Illinois legislature passing an amendment aimed at clarifying the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) last year, confusion remains about whether the measure applies retroactively, leaving pending cases in limbo that may take years to resolve, privacy lawyers said.
On Tuesday, monetization platform Patreon asked the U.S. District Court for Northern California to reject more than 900 opt-outs in a settlement about privacy violations. Patreon argued the opt-outs, submitted by the law firm Lexclaim, the contingent objector in the case, violate the settlement agreement’s ban on group opt-outs and did not comply with the court-approved class notice.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a $725 million class-action settlement against Meta Thursday, despite opponents claiming the deal is inadequate and that the social media company should pay more. The suit accuses Meta, parent company of Facebook, of violating user privacy by allowing advertisers and partners to harvest user data without their consent.
The data breaches that occurred as a result of negligent data security practices by two auto insurance companies, GEICO and Travelers, and the resulting settlements secured by the New York attorney general, are a recent example of why regulation of insurance companies is so important, said lawyers at a Practicing Law Institute webinar Thursday.
Comments are due March 17 on the FTC’s proposed settlement over allegations that GoDaddy misrepresented its data security practices for several years, the agency said in a Federal Register notice scheduled for publication Thursday.
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) Tuesday discussed enforcement activities concerning the DeepSeek AI chatbot and agreed to extend the scope of its ChatGPT task force to AI enforcement, a spokesperson emailed. The task force was created to encourage cooperation and exchange information on possible enforcement actions conducted by data protection authorities (DPAs) on ChatGPT.