IBM, Johnson & Johnson and Janssen CarePath failed to secure plaintiff Kristal Mize’s personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) when they allowed an unauthorized third party to access their computer systems, alleged a privacy class action (docket 7:23-cv-09725) Friday in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in White Plains.
Plaintiffs brought 12 claims against China-based PDD Holdings and Temu under various privacy, wiretapping and computer crimes laws in a Friday class action (docket 1:23-cv-15653) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago. The suit names PDD Holdings, owner of Pinduoduo and Whaleco’s Temu, which is “directly controlled” by PDD.
Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh used Just Walk Out (JWO) technology to collect, use, store and disseminate three Illinois residents’ biometric information and data when they entered a store, regardless of whether they made a purchase, said a privacy class action (docket 1:23-cv-15634) removed Friday from Cook County Circuit Court to U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.
Amazon has “quietly and deliberately" raised prices through "a covert operation called ‘Project Nessie'” that has “extracted" more than $1 billion from American homes, alleges the FTC's in a newly released public complaint (docket 2:23-cv-1495), a less-redacted version of the agency's Sept. 26 antitrust complaint against the e-commerce giant.
Trust Benefit Technologies (TBT), a software provider for the benefits administrator industry, failed to protect customers’ personally identifiable information (PII) in a May 16-May 22 data breach when cybercriminals gained access to the company’s IT network, alleged a class action Thursday (docket 2:23-cv-09233) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles. The company disclosed the breach to customers Oct. 19.
Subscriptions to X Premium, formerly Twitter Blue, sold to California consumers violate the state’s Automatic Renewal Law (ARL), alleged a complaint Tuesday (docket CGC 23-610081) in California Superior Court for San Francisco County.
An August data breach at the University of Michigan led to unauthorized access of personal data of students, applicants, alumni, donors, employees, contractors, research study participants and patients, alleged a class action Wednesday (docket 5:23-cv-12783) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan in Ann Arbor.
The “carelessness" and "negligence" of MGM Resorts International, plus its lack of oversight and proper supervision, caused customers victimized in the company's September data breach "to lose all sense of privacy,” alleged a class action Wednesday (docket 2:23-cv-01777) in U.S. District Court for Nevada in Las Vegas.
Biden administration officials, including some in the Department of Health and Human Services, violated the First Amendment by directing companies to censor viewpoints that conflict with the government’s COVID-19 messaging, said a New Civil Liberties Alliance petition Tuesday asking an en banc 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals or the three-judge panel to rehear Changizi, et al. v. HHS, et al.
A hacker, with the help of a Verizon store assistant manager, gained access to a customer’s financial accounts through a SIM card swap, stealing $300,000 from his cryptocurrency account, alleged a fraud complaint Tuesday (docket 1:23-cv-09556) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan. The breach of contract suit names Verizon and Coinbase as co-defendants.