A San Francisco federal judge refused to dismiss a putative class action alleging the ad-tech company silently harvested location, device, and identity data from a dating app for gay individuals without users' knowledge.
A Cincinnati dermatology chain faces a unified putative class action after a November 2025 hack allegedly exposed patients' Social Security numbers, Medicare IDs, and medical records.
A telecom company faces a unified class action over a 2025 breach that allegedly exposed the names and Social Security numbers of more than 15,000 people.
A federal judge tossed Andrew and Tristan Tate's deplatforming lawsuit against Meta without leave to amend, finding their contract claims rested on quoted policy language that does not actually appear in the documents they attached to their own complaint.
A Colorado federal judge let most claims stand against a fertility provider hit by a ransomware gang that published patients' intimate reproductive records on the dark web, but only one plaintiff's out-of-pocket monitoring costs cleared the injury bar for...
An Illinois appellate panel has ruled that a government contractor accused of sharing employee fingerprint data with a third-party payroll vendor cannot invoke the Biometric Information Privacy Act's government contractor exemption unless the alleged...
A Northern California judge has dismissed claims against foreign LINE and NAVER defendants for lack of personal jurisdiction, holding that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate that the tech companies expressly aimed their data collection practices at...
The Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a Video Privacy Protection Act lawsuit against NBCUniversal, holding that tracking codes embedded in websites do not constitute "personally identifiable information" under the statute.
A federal judge in the Northern District of California has preliminarily approved an $850,000 class settlement resolving claims that cricket streaming service Willow TV shared subscribers' video-viewing histories with Meta without their knowledge or...
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio has granted preliminary approval of a class action settlement resolving claims that Motility Software Solutions, Inc. failed to maintain reasonable security procedures following a data incident.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has opened a criminal investigation into OpenAI and its ChatGPT application following an initial review of chat logs between the AI and Phoenix Ikner, the gunman who opened fire at Florida State University last year.
Judge Lindsay C. Jenkins of the Northern District of Illinois granted Kalshi, Inc.'s motion to transfer a class action challenging the prediction market platform's legality under state gambling and consumer protection laws to the Southern District of New York.
A Northern District of Illinois judge denied Nourish, Inc.'s motion to dismiss a putative class action alleging the company surreptitiously tracked users' sensitive health information and transmitted it to Google.
A federal district court in Arkansas has granted a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of Act 900 of 2025, a state law imposing new restrictions on social media platforms regarding minor users.
The Fourth Circuit affirmed the conviction of Trent Russell, a hospital contractor who accessed and posted Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s private medical records to the anonymous message board 4Chan. Chief Judge Diaz, writing for a unanimous panel, rejected...
Kejia Wang and Zhenxing Wang were sentenced in the District of Massachusetts to a combined 200 months in prison for running a laptop-farm operation that placed North Korean IT workers on the payrolls of more than 100 U.S. companies using stolen American...
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has opened a civil investigation into Discord, subpoenaing the chat platform for records on its marketing to minors, age-verification practices, content moderation, and complaints alleging exploitation, with the state...
Judge Diane J. Humetewa has granted preliminary approval of a class action settlement involving Enroll Confidently Incorporated and conditionally certified the settlement class for individuals whose private information may have been impacted in a data...