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Texas’ claims that an Allstate subsidiary collected and shared Texans' driving data with the insurer are based on assumptions, not facts or evidence, the subsidiary, Arity 875, said in an appeals court brief August 4. As such, Arity, a data analytics company, urged the Texas 15th Court of Appeals to drop it from a lawsuit.
London's High Court of Justice Monday tossed a challenge by nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation to provisions of the U.K. Online Safety Act (OSA) it claimed could jeopardize the privacy and safety of Wikipedia contributors, but stressed that contributors must be protected.
CAMDEN, N.J. -- A federal judge raised doubts Monday that the Communications Decency Act gives data brokers immunity from New Jersey’s Daniel’s Law. In an oral argument at the U.S. District Court for New Jersey, Judge Harvey Bartle heard preemption arguments from various data brokers sued by Atlas Data Privacy under the 2020 state law, which is aimed at protecting the personal information of judicial and law enforcement officers, child protective investigators and certain family members.
As privacy litigation under older laws has exploded, some have called for amending decades-old statutes often at the center of lawsuits so that they aren't applied to modern technologies. The California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) in particular has been subject to more scrutiny as litigation has increased (see 2503030050).
A July data breach of Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North America precipitated a flurry of lawsuits alleging inadequate safety procedures. The company said the data breach exposed the personal information of most of its 1.4 million U.S. customers and stakeholders.
Bitcoin Depot failed to adequately protect the personally identifiable information (PII) of more than 26,000 individuals, which was then exposed in a data breach, a class-action complaint alleged Friday in the U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia. Lead plaintiff Quincey Hall's lawsuit alleges negligence, invasion of privacy, breach of implied contract and violations of the Georgia Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act, among other claims.
Illinois renewed its request for a federal court to dismiss a DOJ workplace privacy suit Monday. The state argued that DOJ didn't prove how federal law preempts elements of the state's Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act (Privacy Act).
A federal court sided with education technology platform Instructure and ruled that a case against it failed to plausibly allege specific facts about the taking or use of data. The U.S. District Court for Central California dismissed case 25-02711.
The expansion of data broker liability in states like Texas and California has companies considering multistate compliance approaches, privacy attorneys told us in interviews.