The use by the University of California San Francisco Medical Center of Mega Pixel tracking technology in its My Chart online patient portal is an “extreme invasion” of plaintiff's and class members’ right to privacy and violates state statutory and common law, said a class action filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.

Anker’s claims that its eufy security products keep customers’ data “safe within your home” are “false and misleading,” alleged a Dec. 23 breach of contract class action (docket 2:22-cv-1816) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle. .

Educational Credit Management Corp. (ECMC), a student loan servicer, recorded its phone conversations with plaintiff Cynthia Lepur without her consent, in violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), alleged her class action Nov. 15 in San Diego County Superior Court. ECMC removed the complaint Wednesday (docket 3:23-cv-00014) to U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego

Crown Castle needs to view documents filed under seal in its legal fight in the district court to force Pasadena, Texas, to approve the installation of small-cell nodes in the city’s rights of way, said its motion Wednesday (docket 22-20454) at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Pasadena is appealing the district court’s decision granting summary judgment in Crown Castle’s favor, and Crown Castle said it needs the documents to prepare its responding brief.

The U.S. District Court for Southern Illinois in East St. Louis should reject arguments by Monroe County, Illinois, that AT&T waited too long to challenge the timeliness of the municipality’s denial of its cell tower application (see 2212200022), said the carrier’s reply brief Tuesday (docket 3:20-cv-01327).

Google wants relief from a costly data preservation burden in the Chrome privacy case in which it won summary judgment. It asked U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan van Keulen for Northern California in San Jose for an order absolving the company from its data or cost obligations, now that the plaintiffs in the case are appealing the summary judgment order to the 9th Circuit, said a supplemental submission Tuesday (docket 4:20-cv-05146).

Six lawyers representing plaintiffs in multiple class actions arising from last summer's Samsung data breach entered notices of presentation by Tuesday's deadline, indicating they will appear at the Jan. 26 oral argument before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation’s hearing on various motions to consolidate the cases and transfer them to a single judge.

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A Gray Television petition asking the courts to set aside the FCC’s $518,000 forfeiture order against the company (see 2211010077) suggests it's targeting agency policy rather than simply seeking to overturn the fine, attorneys told us. “The Commission’s Order is erroneous and improper for several reasons,” said Gray’s petition for review in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (docket 22-14274) last week.

The Supreme Court should dismiss a case involving Patent Act Section 112 to “protect innovation” in fields like telecom, software, computing and electronics, tech groups argued this week in Amgen v. Sanofi (21-757).