Rebecca Day

Greensboro College waited about six months to notify some 52,000 victims of an August data breach, alleged a negligence class action Tuesday (docket 1:24-cv-00243) in U.S. District Court for Middle North Carolina in Greensboro.

The 38 plaintiffs’ privacy complaint vs. Apple over the stalking capabilities of the AirTag tracking device has alleged enough to survive Apple’s motion to dismiss, though most of the claims are “inadequately pled,” said U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria for Northern California in a signed order Friday (docket 3:22-cv-07668) in which he partially denied and partially granted Apple’s motion. The ruling addresses negligence and product liability claims of five plaintiffs who were injured in California.

Seven minors, through their guardians, sued Epic Games over its alleged collection of their personal information for financial gain, said a privacy class action Monday (docket 3:24-cv-00517) in U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego.

23andMe disregarded users’ rights by negligently failing to implement “adequate and reasonable measures” to ensure their personally identifiable information (PII) was safeguarded during an October data breach, alleged a class action (docket 3:24-cv-01662) Monday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. The Oct. 6 data breach affected 6.9 million individuals.

An Apple customer sued the company to retrieve 20 years’ worth of private and personal data after losing all access to his AppleID due to “a series of unfortunate events,” according to the customer's complaint Friday (docket 24-cv-433194) in Santa Clara County Superior Court.

Despite a lower court’s ruling that NetChoice was likely to succeed on its First Amendment challenge to California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, AB-2273, the plaintiff’s arguments are “unpersuasive” and a “misreading of the Act,” said California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s (D) reply brief Thursday (docket 23-2969) in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Bonta's appeal seeks to reverse the preliminary injunction that bars him from enforcing AB-2273 (see 2402080003).

Calling Internet Archive’s controlled digital lending (CDL) an “industrial infringement program,” four publishers said in a Friday appellee brief (docket 23-1260) in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Appeals Court that IA “obtains physical copies of millions of in-copyright books, scans them without authorization in offshore scanning centers, and distributes the resulting ebooks online, where they can be read in full by anyone in the world without any payment to the copyright owner.”

Insurance firm Keenan & Associates discovered a data breach in its computer systems on Aug. 27, but waited six months before it notified and warned customers that their personally identifiable information (PII) was vulnerable, alleged a negligence class action Thursday (docket 8:24-cv-00544) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Santa Ana.

Political consultant Steve Kramer, broadband provider Lingo Telecom and robocall broadcaster Life Corp sent “thousands of robocalls” two days before the Jan. 23 New Hampshire primary to people they thought were likely Democratic voters, featuring deepfake simulations of the voice of President Joe Biden, alleged a complaint Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-00073) in U.S. District Court for New Hampshire in Concord.

Optical store chain Eyemart Express tracks users’ activity on its website without their consent and without disclosing the tracking practices, alleged a class action Wednesday (docket 3:24-cv-00621) in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas.