Bloomberg Law “Walt Disney Co. will pay $10 million to the Federal Trade Commission to settle allegations that it violated a federal children’s privacy law by allowing children to be targeted with online advertising. By failing to correctly classify videos uploaded to its YouTube channels, Disney exposed children to data Read more
Bloomberg Law “NASCAR Enterprises LLC, the sanctioning body for several stock car racing series, is facing a class action suit filed in federal court alleging it failed to protect customers’ personal information in an April data breach. Carl Warren alleges that unauthorized access to NASCAR’s network resulted in the theft Read more
Bloomberg Law “The California Department of Insurance wants to create one of the nation’s most stringent data privacy frameworks for the more than 1,600 carriers it regulates. Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is backing legislation (SB 354) that would strengthen the state’s insurance privacy law and in some areas exceed the Read more
Bloomberg Law “Adobe Inc. has tracking tools on thousands of websites across the internet, and that all-encompassing approach violates users’ privacy rights, according to a proposed class action filed in federal court. Plaintiff Bianca Johnston said that she regularly visits websites like foxnews.com, webmd.com, and weather.com. Adobe’s trackers on those and Read more
Reuters “A proposed class action accusing Microsoft’s LinkedIn of violating the privacy of millions of premium customers by disclosing their private messages to train generative artificial intelligence models has been dismissed. The plaintiff, Alessandro De La Torre, on Thursday filed a notice of dismissal without prejudice in the San Jose, Read more
Bloomberg Law “The US Supreme Court’s decision to pause a nationwide injunction blocking the Corporate Transparency Act again created uncertainty for US businesses even as the federal government said enforcement of the law remains on hold. The justices on Thursday granted the Justice Department’s request to stay the injunction—the first to block Read more
Bloomberg Law ” Court finds defects in Live Nation’s batched proceedings Class action against Live Nation to proceed in open court A Ninth Circuit ruling that denied Live Nation Entertainment Inc.’s bid to compel “batched” arbitration underscores the risks that corporate defendants face when pushing to resolve consumer antitrust disputes outside of Read more
Bloomberg Law “Target Corp. must face allegations it collected shoppers’ biometric data without their knowledge to thwart shoplifting in violation of a state privacy law, a federal judge said. Target customers filed a complaint against the retailer in May, accusing it of deploying facial recognition-enabled video surveillance systems in its stores that captured Read more
Bloomberg Law “Apple Inc. must face several claims in a proposed class action alleging it collected data from app users after they had selected iPhone or iPad settings that Apple said would stop data tracking. The consumers sufficiently alleged they withdrew their consent to the contested data collection by disabling Read more
ABA Journal ” A suspect had a Fifth Amendment right to refuse to give police his cellphone passcode, the Utah Supreme Court has ruled. In a Dec. 14 opinion citing that right, the state supreme court reversed the conviction of Alfonso Valdez for kidnapping and assaulting his ex-girlfriend. Prosecutors had Read more