Meta intercepted individuals’ personal health data from their “covered entities” and via the Meta Pixel tracking tool profited from it without their consent, said a fraud class action Monday (docket 4:23-cv-04784) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland.
The plaintiffs’ claims in a June privacy complaint against Google and its Admob subsidiary are time-barred, fail to state a claim under Rule 12(b)(6) and are preempted by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), said the defendants' motion to dismiss Thursday (docket 5:23-cv-03101) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.
Peacock TV engages in an illegal automatic renewal scheme for its subscription streaming service with consumers who enroll in its membership programs through its website, mobile app or set-top devices, alleged plaintiff Holly Winston's fraud class action Friday (docket 1:23-cv-08191) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.
Social media platforms’ AI-driven user recommendation tools are facilitating and creating connections between minors and “complete strangers,” fueling an “unprecedented mental health crisis,” said a Sept. 12 complaint (docket 238-cv-04270) in California Superior Court for Los Angeles County.
California’s $93 million settlement with Google resolves a multiyear investigation into the tech company’s location-privacy practices, said Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) in a Thursday news release. The California Department of Justice determined Google was ” deceiving users by collecting, storing, and using their location data for consumer profiling and advertising purposes without informed consent,” Bonta said.
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. refreshed his free speech complaint against YouTube and Google to wrap in the 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court’s Sept. 8 comments in the pending Missouri v. Biden First Amendment case, said his Tuesday amended complaint (docket 3:23-cv-03880) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.
The U.S. Panel on Multidistrict Litigation should deny plaintiff Bruce Bailey’s motion for centralization and transfer of related actions in MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, said an interested party response Tuesday (docket 3083), opposing Bailey’s push for centralization in U.S. District Court for Minnesota.
The harm caused by imposition of state taxation on the federal Lifeline program “would be enormous,” said former FCC Commissioners Robert McDowell and Mignon Clyburn in an amicus brief Monday (docket 101873-8) in Washington Supreme Court in support of appellant Assurance Wireless. Assurance petitioned for review of a lower court ruling rejecting its argument that the carrier’s Lifeline services didn’t involve a retail sale.
South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, D-N.Y., deprived political rival Gregg Marcel Dixon of his First Amendment rights by blocking and muting him from his social media accounts on Twitter, said Dixon’s complaint (docket 9:23-cv-04500) filed pro se Thursday in U.S. District Court for South Carolina in Beaufort. Dixon's website refers to him as a candidate for the 6th Congressional District of South Carolina, a post Clyburn has held since 1993.
Plaintiffs Gayle Jentz, Andre Lopez, Gwendolyn Smuda, Steven Checchia and Robin Anderson and defendant Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) oppose plaintiff Bruce Bailey’s July motion for transfer and centralization of cases related to MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation to the district of Minnesota, said their Friday response (docket 3083) before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML).