Rebecca Day

Dish’s February data breach was a direct result of its “flawed online system configuration and design” and its “failure to implement and follow basic security procedures,” alleges a Tuesday class action (docket 1:23-cv-01556) in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver. From Feb. 22 to Feb. 27, unauthorized third-party hackers began accessing and exfiltrating the private information of customers and current and former employees, said the complaint.

Google and its AdMob mobile advertising subsidiary “knowingly and intentionally” used apps to collect minors’ personal information without parental consent to target them with “highly lucrative behavioral advertising at the expense of the children’s privacy rights,” said a class action (docket 5:23-cv-03101) Thursday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.

Gannett sued Google Tuesday for antitrust violations involving its digital advertising technology, said a complaint (docket 1:23-cv-05177) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan. The lawsuit alleges Google manipulates “real-time bidding,” monopolizes publisher ad serving, “abuses” the Google DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) ad platform to monopolize the market for ad exchanges, manipulates DFP to “artificially deflate bids from rival exchanges” and eliminates price floors while imposing unified pricing rules.

Plaintiffs Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Children’s Health Defense “piggyback off the filings in Missouri v. Biden,” said defendants’ opposition (docket 3:23-cv-00381) to Kennedy’s Tuesday motion for preliminary injunction in a freedom of speech case against nearly 70 federal officials in U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana in Monroe.

Amazon Marketplace seller AuKing Direct is “purposefully and deceptively inflating the brightness specification of its projectors,” alleges competitor Epson in a Tuesday fraud complaint (docket 1:23-cv-11367) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston.

Pentagon Federal Credit Union, Verisk Analytics and Lead Intelligence record visitors’ electronic communications activities on PenFed’s website without their consent, said a Friday class action (docket 2:23-cv-04785) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles.

Plaintiffs' claims against Old Dominion Freight Line should be dismissed for unripe claims, failure to state claims under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) and failure to state a claim for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction in their class action against the company, said defendants' Friday motion (docket 1:23-cv-02187) in U.S. District Court for Central Illinois in Peoria. Old Dominion moved the court to either dismiss plaintiffs’ second amended putative class action complaint or to strike their class allegations.

U.S. District Judge Manish Shah’s May 31 ruling denying Match Group’s motion to dismiss erred by “deciding the issue of small claims court jurisdiction instead of leaving it for the small claims court to decide” and ruling that small claims courts lack jurisdiction over plaintiff’s claims, said Match’s motion to reconsider (docket 1:22-cv-06924) the ruling Thursday and dismiss the case in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.

Cyber intelligence company NSO Group and Q Cyber Technologies should have known their clients “routinely utilized relational targeting” that has been “incredibly effective at accomplishing the goals of authoritarian regimes,” alleges Hanan Elatr Khashoggi, widow of assassinated journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in a complaint Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-00779) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia in Alexandria.

Using a “fraudulent marketing scheme,” First American Home Warranty leads consumers to believe they have been overcharged on their utility bill and it will give them a rebate for the overcharges, alleges a Wednesday Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) lawsuit (docket 2:23-cv-11412) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan in Detroit.