Google's argument to dismiss the privacy lawsuit was that the plaintiffs should have been aware that third-party apps that make use of Google Analytics tools might continue to collect location data about them independently. The judge determined that a "reasonable user" could not be expected to know that.
After five years of legal back-and-forth, Apple has agreed to settle the Siri privacy suit brought by California device users that found the voice assistant unexpectedly listening in on their daily lives.
The Texas AG's office is challenging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in court, looking to peel back a patient privacy amendment to HIPAA that protects out-of-state medical records about abortions.
A privacy class action against Google that was dismissed in 2022 has been given new life by an appeals court. Privacy lawsuit says Chrome Sync feature collected personal information from those that chose to opt out of it, ignoring their preference to separate their Google accounts from their activity in the Chrome browser.
Meta allegedly violated Texas’ CUBI and the Deceptive Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act in capturing and profiting from facial recognition data without obtaining required informed consent, and failing to delete this stored data after a required amount of time.
The consumer privacy lawsuit alleged that Oracle made $42.5 billion annually by surreptitiously creating "dossiers" on millions of people that it sold off to both private and government parties.
The privacy lawsuit dates all the way back to 2018, when Google internally discovered that the Google+ API was being abused. The privacy lawsuit has now been settled for $350 million, after a lengthy appeals process played out.
The Google privacy lawsuit was first filed in 2020, and had been scheduled to go before the District Court on February 5. It is now on pause as the lawyers prepare a binding term sheet. Claimants are seeking a total of at least $5 billion.
Two Dutch consumer groups, the Privacy Protection Foundation and Consumentenbond, have filed suit against Google over its targeted advertising auctions. The suit is seeking the equivalent of $804 for each Google user harmed by its "constant surveillance" and sharing of personal data.
Amazon has settled a FTC privacy lawsuit involving repeated breaches of Ring video cameras by both employees and hackers. The order would require Amazon to pay $5.8 million in restitution and delete a great deal of the video it has collected over the past several years.