SAN FRANCISCO - Less than a week before a scheduled hearing in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, two former drivers with Uber Technologies Inc. on Feb. 7 filed a notice of settlement, informing the appeals court that they had reached a confidential... Read More
GREENBELT, Md. - A Louisiana-based bank sufficiently alleged, under that state's law, that Marriott International Inc.'s negligence in not adequately protecting its customers' payment card data led to its being compromised, a Maryland judge... Read More
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Google LLC was hit with another class complaint alleging violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) in California federal court on Feb. 6, with an Illinois man claiming that the tech giant has been using its... Read More
CHICAGO - Clearview AI Inc. was hit with a putative class complaint in Illinois federal court on Feb. 5, marking the third federal suit filed against the tech firm in two weeks over its creation of "a dystopian surveillance database" with the... Read More
RALEIGH, N.C. - A Fortnite player who claims that his Epic Games Inc. account was breached and his data was stolen must submit his claims to individual arbitration, a federal judge in North Carolina ruled Feb. 3, staying the Missouri man's putative... Read More
PEORIA, Ill. - In a Jan. 31 dismissal motion, a supermarket chain tells an Illinois federal court that negligence, contractual and other class claims brought against it over a 2018-2019 data breach are inadequately pleaded and do not contain the necessary... Read More
NEWARK, N.J. - The broad protection of European Union (EU) citizens' data provided by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) does not serve to prevent production of personal data deemed relevant to the claims in a lawsuit, a New Jersey federal... Read More
LOS ANGELES - On Jan. 31, a third putative class complaint was filed against Ring LLC in California federal court, with plaintiffs alleging negligence, privacy and consumer violation claims related to incidents in which the company's smart security... Read More
CHICAGO - A U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois judge on Jan. 29 agreed to transfer a putative class complaint over a franchisee's alleged use and retention of employees' fingerprint scans, but transferred the case to the... Read More
MIAMI - Three days after a visually impaired man sued a retailer for allegedly operating an inaccessible website in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a Florida federal judge on Jan. 27 sua sponte dismissed the plaintiff's state law... Read More
SAN FRANCISCO - Less than two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed its appeal of a class certification ruling in a privacy lawsuit over its social network's face-tagging feature, Facebook Inc. announced on Jan. 29 that it had reached a $550... Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a pair of briefs filed Jan. 24 in District of Columbia federal court, Facebook Inc. and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) argue that a recently announced consent order between the social network and the Federal Trade Commission... Read More
ST. PAUL, Minn. - A senior living community worker's disparaging social media post about a resident did not constitute a "health record" because it contained no information about her medical condition, a Minnesota appeals panel ruled Jan... Read More
CHICAGO - Clearview AI Inc. created and furnished to law enforcement a database of the facial scans of "millions of unsuspecting individuals," contributing to the creation of a "massive surveillance state" a plaintiff claims in a putative... Read More
INDIANAPOLIS - An Indiana state court's objection to a discovery ruling requiring it to submit certain data about minors seeking abortions was overruled Jan. 22, with an Indiana federal judge finding that the anonymized nature of the data did not... Read More