A group of stakeholders again maintained that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) acted illegally when it demanded that states submit Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipient data, according to federal court documents submitted Friday in a suit that began May 22. Meanwhile, the USDA, also on Friday, asked the court to drop the suit, arguing it's done nothing wrong. The stakeholders demanded the suit should continue.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica site tracks users' activity and then sells it to third parties in violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act, said a class-action complaint Tuesday against the venerable reference source. Tracking software was installed on britannica.com and is operated without user knowledge or consent, plaintiff Daniel Vesely alleged.
The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) and NetChoice asked an appeals court to affirm a ruling to preliminarily block a Florida law that would ban kids from social media since it likely violates the First Amendment.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allowed to stand most of a California law that makes it illegal for internet-based services and applications to provide an addictive feed to users younger than 18, unless the operator doesn't know the user is a minor.
If not for Fox Corp.'s anticompetitive maneuvers against other right-leaning pay-TV news operations, Newsmax would have greater pay-TV distribution, and its audience and ratings would have grown more quickly, the network asserted in a federal lawsuit Wednesday.
A federal court dropped a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) case against NBCUniversal Media (NBCU) Wednesday, ruling that the complaint did not adequately allege the disclosure of personally identifiable information (PII) within the meaning of the statute.
Google will appeal a court ruling that it violated privacy rights of almost 100 million users who asked the company not to track their data, a company spokesperson said following the jury verdict Wednesday. Meanwhile, the $425 million in damages against Google seem low, a privacy attorney said.
The federal government urged a court to reject a claim from a coalition of states that's seeking to block the collection of personally identifiable information (PII) about millions of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients while litigation regarding the legality of the data demand is pending. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) made the request in a court document Tuesday, claiming the states' case is unlikely to succeed on its claims.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) demand for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) applicant and recipient data from the states "display[s] the height of contempt" for the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), said a coalition of stakeholders in a court document Friday.
A federal judge dismissed several claims against Chinese technology company ByteDance, including that it violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). But in the Friday ruling, U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois Judge Georgia Alexakis allowed a claim ByteDance violated the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), as well as the restitution and unjust enrichment claim against the company, to continue in the privacy case.