Personally identifiable information (PII) from 23andMe’s DNA Relatives feature is “now in the hands of criminal hackers,” said a privacy class action Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-05464) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.
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Personally identifiable information (PII) from 23andMe’s DNA Relatives feature is “now in the hands of criminal hackers,” said a privacy class action Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-05464) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.
The 33 attorneys general suing Meta in California et al. vs. Meta over Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) violations filed an administrative motion (docket 4:23-cv-05448) Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland to consider whether materials designated as confidential by Meta should be sealed.
The plaintiffs in two fraud class actions against Amazon over its return policies filed a joint motion with a proposed order (docket 2:23-cv-01545) to consolidate cases Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle, but they disagree on how the case should go forward. They asked the court for its “guidance” on how to proceed if it grants the motion to consolidate.
Lower courts are in a “real muddle” over the Federal Arbitration Act's reach, said Amazon's U.S. Supreme Court cert petition Thursday. The petition asked SCOTUS to reverse the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Sept. 1 affirmance of the district court's December 2021 denial of Amazon's motion to compel arbitration in a case involving delivery drivers in the Amazon Flex program.
Google records and reads conversations between Californians and Verizon customer service representatives through its Google Cloud Contact Center AI (GCCCAI) software product, alleged a privacy class action Monday (docket 3:23-cv-05437) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.
Spotlighting their bipartisan effort to challenge a common Meta foe as the alleged culprit in the youth mental health crisis, attorneys general from six states used a virtual news conference Tuesday to announce the filing of a 33-state lawsuit (docket 4:23-cv-05448) against the Instagram and Facebook parent in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland.
A massive May 28 data breach and subsequent attacks on Progress Software Corp.’s (PSC) MOVEit file transfer software affected 2,546 organizations as of Oct. 11, alleges a negligence class action (docket 1:23-cv-12450) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston. The breach affected the records of about 64.5 million individuals, said the complaint, citing anti-malware company Emsisoft.
Though MGM Resorts International was “well aware” that the personally identifiable information (PII) it collects is “highly sensitive and of significant value” to bad actors, it informed its customers Oct. 5 of a “large scale cyberattack” across its properties, said a Friday class action (docket 2:23-cv-01719) in U.S. District Court for Nevada in Las Vegas. During the data breach, which occurred Sept. 11, cybercriminals shut down MGM's ATMs and slot machines, its website and online booking systems, the complaint said.
Educational services company Chegg tracked plaintiff Michael Foulkes’ video viewing history while he was on its website and then shared it with Facebook, said a Thursday class action (docket 1:23-cv-23993) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Miami.
The FTC “seeks to establish an entirely new theory of legal liability based on misleading and subjective characterizations of unremarkable marketing techniques,” said the FTC’s Wednesday motion to dismiss (docket 2:23-cv-00932) the commission’s amended complaint in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle. Under basic principles of due process, any modification of the law must occur through legislation or regulation, “and not through enforcement actions seeking to impose massive and retroactive civil liability,” it said.