The Texas Association of Business (TAB) petitioned the 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court for review of the FCC’s updated data breach notification rules. The rules were adopted Dec. 13, released Dec. 21 and published in the Federal Register Feb. 12, said TAB's Thursday filing (docket 24-60085). They are effective March 13 (see 2402090035).
The Texas Association of Business (TAB) petitioned the 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court for review of the FCC’s updated data breach notification rules. The rules were adopted Dec. 13, released Dec. 21 and published in the Federal Register Feb. 12, said TAB's Thursday filing (docket 24-60085). They are effective March 13 (see 2402090035).
Since an April data breach at Emmanuel College in Boston, Sopiya Shrestha has experienced an uptick in spam calls concerning fraudulent communications, said her negligence class action Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-10434) against the school's trustees in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston.
A Feb. 16 motion for injunction by the plaintiffs in three nearly identical copyright class actions that were consolidated Nov. 9 in In Re: OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation requests “extraordinary and drastic relief,” said defendant OpenAI in its opposition to the motion Thursday (docket 3:23-cv-03223) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.
Comcast used “deficient data security practices” by relying on Citrix’s “flawed software applications” that resulted in a “massive and preventable” October data breach, alleged a fraud class action Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-00793) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
A Tampa doctor’s T-Mobile account was improperly transferred to another individual who used the doctor's identity to attempt to buy fraudulent prescriptions of controlled substances, tried to transfer $100,000 from her retirement account and obtained money via a financial services platform, alleged Pina Panchal's negligence complaint Wednesday (docket 8:24-cv-00456) in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Tampa.
Home security company Vivint failed to disclose to a customer that he would be required to buy additional products to receive its service and refused to allow him to cancel home monitoring, alleged a Jan. 12 fraud class action (docket 1:24-cv-01010) removed Wednesday from Burlington County, New Jersey, Superior Court to U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Camden.
A Verizon employee gained unauthorized access to a file containing personally identifiable information (PII) of 63,206 company staffers on Sept. 21, though Verizon didn’t discover the breach until Dec. 21, alleged a fraud class action Wednesday (docket 2:24-cv-01431) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles. Moreover, Verizon notified the Maine attorney general and data breach victims weeks later, on Feb. 7, it said.
Debt collection service IC System continued to inaccurately report late-payment charges on a Charter Communications customer’s account after he disputed the information to credit reporting firms Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, said a complaint Wednesday (docket 6:24-cv-00371) against IC System, Charter and Equifax in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Orlando.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court should grant Apple permission to appeal under Rule 23(f) and reverse the class-certification order in an antitrust case vs. the tech company, stemming from a 2011 class action, said Apple’s petition (docket 24-875) for permission to appeal a district court’s Feb. 2 class-certification order.