U.S. District Judge William Orrick for Northern California in San Francisco denied Meta’s motion to dismiss claims it violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) and of breach of contract and unjust enrichment, and he granted the motion with leave to amend other claims in the John Doe v. Meta privacy class action, said his Thursday order (docket 3:22-cv-03580).
Google moved the court Thursday to compel third-party Havas Media Group to comply with its two "identical subpoenas" to provide documents for antitrust lawsuits about its digital advertising business, said the filing (docket 3:23-mc-03007) in U.S. District Court for Central Illinois in Springfield. The ad agency doesn't consent to the motion, which Google issued as part of its effort to defend against “multiple antitrust lawsuits,” Google said.
The FTC finalized an order with 1Health.io that settles allegations the genetic testing firm left consumers’ sensitive genetic and health data unsecured, deceived customers’ about their ability to get data deleted and changed its privacy policy “retroactively without adequately notifying consumers and obtaining their consent,” said the FTC in a Thursday news release.
Plaintiff Bruce Bailey anticipates the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation will rule “sometime in October” on his motion to transfer all related actions involving the Progress Software Corp. (PSC) May data breach to U.S. District Court for Minnesota, said his Wednesday status report (docket 3083) before the JPML. Bailey’s July motion to transfer said PSC bears responsibility for a late May data breach in which data of over 15 million people was stolen as part of a security breach by Russian ransomware group CL0P.
Amazon sued Kamryn Russell and other entities operating Amazon selling accounts for facilitating the sale of counterfeit luxury fashion goods, said its Wednesday complaint (docket 2:23-cv-01375) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.
The amended breach of contract complaint from EDN Global and CEO Jerome Edmondson against AT&T and three of its employees fails for three reasons, said AT&T’s reply Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-00355) in support of its motion to dismiss the complaint with prejudice for failure to state a claim.
Twitter’s termination of software engineer Ethan Sutin was part of a “recent effort to cut costs by any means necessary,” alleges Sutin’s Friday breach of contract complaint against X, formerly Twitter, (docket 23-608806) in California Superior Court in San Francisco.
Advocates of the October 2020 antitrust case by DOJ and 11 states against Google expanded in a Wednesday news briefing on their Friday third-party motion (docket 1:20-cv-03010) for U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta for the District of Columbia to allow a publicly available audio feed of the unsealed portions of the trial. The case, which alleges Google's "exclusionary agreements" cover about 60% of all general internet search queries, with half the remaining queries funneled through Google owned-and-operated properties, is set for trial Tuesday.
California asserts the Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) is necessary to protect the “health and well-being of minors,” but it “fails to show how the law serves that boundless objective, much less how it is tailored to do so,” said NetChoice Friday in a supplemental brief (docket 5:22-cv-08861) in support of its motion for preliminary injunction against the social media design law, due to take effect in June.
A flurry of notices -- for oral argument, related cases and opposition responses -- were filed last week and Monday before the U.S. Panel on Multidistrict Litigation involving the May MOVEit data breach. Cases stem from a May data breach at Progress Software Corp. (PSC) whose MOVEit file transfer software contained a vulnerability that was exploited by Russian ransomware group Clop.