Illinois Supreme Court: BIPA Claims Accrue With Each Scan February 17, 2023 By Ezra Amacher The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Friday that a separate claim accrues each time a business unlawfully scans or transmits an...
Facebook Hit With $1 Million Fine Tied to User-Privacy Lawsuit February 10, 2023 By Joel Rosenblatt Facebook and its outside law firm were ordered to pay almost $1 million in sanctions for deceitfully denying that it...
GoodRx Pays $1.5 Million to Settle Health Privacy Allegations February 2, 2023 By Diane Bartz U.S. healthcare firm GoodRx Holdings has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle allegations that it failed to notify customers...
Subpoena Granted in Reno Mayor’s Lawsuit over Tracking Device January 25, 2023 A Nevada judge has granted subpoenas sought by Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve to force a private investigator to identify who...
460K Partial Social Security Numbers Mistakenly Released in Washington January 24, 2023 A county in Washington inadvertently released nearly half a million partial Social Security Numbers when responding to a routine public...
Washington Bill Would Force Period Tracking Apps to Follow Privacy Laws January 18, 2023 When the Supreme Court last June stripped away constitutional protections for abortion, concerns grew over the use of period tracking...
Google, YouTube Content Providers Must Face U.S. Children’s Privacy Lawsuit December 29, 2022 By Jonathan Stempel A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday revived a lawsuit accusing Alphabet Inc’s Google and several other companies of violating the...
Government Funding Bill to Bolster U.S. Antitrust Regulators December 27, 2022 By David Shepardson and Diane Bartz A $1.7 trillion government funding bill approved by the U.S. Senate Thursday will bolster U.S. regulators and make it easier...
“Fortnite” Maker Epic Games to Settle Alleged Privacy Violation for $520M December 19, 2022 “Fortnite” creator Epic Games will pay $520 million to settle allegations that it illegally collected children’s personal information and tricked...
Report Shows California Gun Data Breach Was Unintentional December 2, 2022 By Adam Beam California’s Department of Justice mistakenly posted the names, addresses and birthdays of nearly 200,000 gun owners on the internet because...