A 2020 privacy lawsuit that accused the company of wrongful data sharing with third parties such as Facebook, Google and LinkedIn, also addressed the practice of "zoombombing." If approved, Zoom will pay $85 million to settle.
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.
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.
Chick-fil-A Hit With Privacy Lawsuit Over Data Collection Embedded in Viral Video Marketing Campaign
Privacy lawsuit alleges that by embedding the Meta pixel on pages hosting its videos, Chick-fil-A violated the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) which applies only to data collection of personally identifiable information when viewing videos.
If the court approves the settlement, this long-running privacy lawsuit will finally be put to bed with $90 million (after the usual legal expenses) being parceled out to eligible users and Facebook forced to "sequester and delete" personal data.
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.
The suit represents millions of Texas residents that have used Google services since 2015. The state requires that consent be collected from biometric data subjects to use their faces or voices.
Class action data privacy lawsuit claims that Google app tracking continues to record user activity on hundreds of thousands of mobile apps despite users applying the recommended settings.
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.
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.
