Rebecca Day

U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero denied without prejudice Patreon’s motion to dismiss a first amended privacy complaint based on its alleged sharing of user data with Facebook via Meta Pixel code, said a Friday order (docket 3:22-cv-03131) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. Spero granted Patreon’s motion to dismiss the claims with leave to amend.

Meta uses identifiers to match health data it collects with Facebook users and encourages healthcare partners to upload patient lists for ad targeting, alleged Tuesday's consolidated class action against the company in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco (docket 3:22-cv-03580).

Brilliant Earth jewelry company’s virtual try-on feature collects detailed and sensitive biometric identifiers, including complete hand geometry scans, without disclosing they're being collected, alleged a Friday privacy class action (docket 1:23-cv-987) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody’s (R) response to Smartbiz Telecom’s motion to dismiss the state’s robocall lawsuit against it has new unpled allegations and theories of liability and shouldn't be considered in determining the allegations at issue, said the defendant’s Friday response (docket 1:22-cv-23945) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Miami. The plaintiff asked that its motions to dismiss and to join required parties be granted.

Online tax filing services H&R Block, TaxSlayer and TaxAct “secretly deployed” Meta's Pixel code, which intercepted and collected an Erie County, New York, man’s private, sensitive and confidential financial information, alleged a Friday privacy class action (docket 3:23-cv-00735) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.

The DOJ filed a complaint Thursday in U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego on the FTC's behalf to stop a network of companies and individuals allegedly responsible for delivering “tens of millions” of unwanted VoIP and ringless voicemail (RVM) phony debt service robocalls to consumers nationwide. The case (docket 3:23-cv-00313) targets “the ecosystem of companies who perpetrate illegal telemarketing to cheat American consumers who are struggling financially,” said Samuel Levine, FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection director.

Social media companies are “ruthlessly extracting every dollar possible with callous disregard for the harm to mental health,” alleged a Thursday class action (docket 2:23-cv-00910) brought by the School District of the Chathams in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark. The suit is one of several filed recently by U.S. school districts -- including Mesa Public Schools in Arizona (see 2301270067) and suburban Seattle Kent School District (see 2301110029) -- hoping to force social media platforms to do more to protect minors from online bullying, predators and behaviors detrimental to their mental health.

T-Mobile seems “incapable of adequately protecting the information it maintains from and about its customers,” said a 17-count class action Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle (docket 2:23-cv-00211). It’s one of about a dozen complaints filed against T-Mobile since its most recent breach announcement Jan. 19.

Instagram and Snapchat are responsible for causing and contributing to “the burgeoning mental health crisis” among U.S. children and teenagers, alleged a Tuesday liability complaint (docket 4:23-cv-00646) against Meta, Snap and additional parties in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland.

Kochava filed a request for judicial notice Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Northern Idaho in Coeur D’Alene (docket 2:22-cv-00377) using comments from FTC Commissioner Christine Wilson on her plans to resign her post to support its motion to dismiss the FTC’s privacy complaint. The filing followed the FTC’s notice of supplemental authority Feb. 6 in support of its opposition to Kochava’s motion to dismiss (see Ref:2302070037]). Wilson voted with the FTC's Democratic majority in August to authorize the Kochava complaint.