Rite Aid “is pleased to reach an agreement with the FTC and put this matter behind us,” said the retailer Tuesday. It was responding to an FTC settlement, barring it from using facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes for five years, to settle charges it failed to implement “reasonable procedures and prevent harm to consumers” in its use of facial recognition technology to combat theft in “hundreds of stores.”
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Adams Bank & Trust maintained customers’ personally identifiable information (PII) in a “reckless manner” vulnerable to cyberattacks, alleged a class action Monday (docket 7:23-cv-05005) in U.S. District Court for Nebraska in North Platte.
Four Liberty employees accessed a customer's account about 30 times from December 2020 to June 2022 without her authorization and repeatedly failed to safeguard her personally identifiable information (PII) and customer proprietary network information (CPNI), alleged a SIM swap complaint Monday (docket 3:23-cv-01613) in U.S. District Court for Puerto Rico in San Juan.
The SEC sued three connected companies and their CEO for a “staggering” fraud scheme involving a private Nigerian company, Tingo Mobile, that purportedly sourced mobile handsets and services to “millions of farmers” but had “no meaningful operations or customers,” alleged the complaint Monday (docket 1:23-cv-10928) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.
The Utah Social Media Regulation Act is “an unconstitutional attempt to regulate both minors’ and adults’ access to -- and ability to engage in -- protected expression,” said NetChoice Monday (docket 2:23-cv-00911) in U.S. District Court for Utah in Salt Lake City, seeking to block the state from enforcing the law when it takes effect March 1.
A New Jersey woman is suing Match Group after she found her photo associated with another woman’s name on the company's online Tinder dating site, said a fraud class action (docket 2:23-cv-23115), removed Thursday to U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark from New Jersey Superior Court in Bergen County.
Publishers Clearing House (PCH) sells customers’ private purchase information without providing prior notice of the disclosures, in violation of Utah’s Notice of Intent to Sell Nonpublic Personal Information Act (NISNPIA), alleged a class action Friday (docket 4:23-cv-00118) in U.S. District Court for Utah in St. George.
Most people in the U.S. "would be surprised to find out" that there are "search engine options other than Google,” said Megan Gray, CEO, GrayMatters Law & Policy, on an Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) webinar Wednesday discussing implications of the DOJ v. Google antitrust trial that concluded last month in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Closing argument for the 2020 case (docket 1:20-cv-03010) is scheduled for May 1 before U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta.
The public interest organization, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), sued the National Park Service (NPS) under the Freedom of Information Act Tuesday to compel the agency to disclose records related to Wi-Fi or cellular proposals and installations across three parks that are “now between three months and three years overdue,” said the Tuesday complaint (docket 1:23-cv-03690) in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
An Amazon employee sued the company and “John Does” 1-10 for engaging in a “systematic scheme” of failing to pay current and former employees who lived and worked from home in Seattle for a “reasonable portion” of their personal home internet or cell service bills for business-related purposes during COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, said a Dec. 6 class action (docket 23-2-24124-0) in Washington Superior Court for King County in Seattle.