Yippee Entertainment, a faith-based streaming service for children, violates the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by disclosing the personally identifiable information (PII) of viewers for marketing, advertising and analytics purposes, alleged a class action Friday (docket 3:24-cv-00797) in U.S. District Court for Southern California.
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J.P. Morgan Chase failed to properly secure the personally identifiable information (PII) of its clients’ employees in a data breach that occurred in 2021 but wasn’t discovered until February of this year, alleged a class action Friday (docket 1:24-cv-03438) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York.
Intel, CEO Pat Gelsinger and Chief Financial Officer David Zinsner are liable for false statements made to investors related to the company’s Intel Foundry Services (IFS) group, alleged a securities fraud class action Friday (docket 0:24-cv-01602) in U.S. District Court for Northern California.
Apple's and Roblox’s goal of keeping minors and young adults playing videogames longer, so they spend more money on in-game purchases, is causing physical and mental harm to young players while the companies grow their revenue, alleged a videogame addiction lawsuit Friday (docket 0:24-cv-01602) in U.S. District Court for Minnesota in Minneapolis.
The Northern District of Texas is the appropriate transferee forum for coordinated or consolidated litigation in In re: AT&T Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, said movant Alex Petroski in a Thursday reply (docket 3:24-cv-00757) before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (docket 3114). The reply was in further support of his motion for transfer and centralization of related actions to the district.
Andre Dubus, author of The Garden of Last Days, and Susan Orlean, who wrote The Orchid Thief, sued Nvidia Thursday for copyright infringement in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco, alleging the tech company used their works to train its NeMo Megatron large language models for AI.
Two plaintiffs filed an unjust enrichment class action Wednesday against InMarket Media over its collection of consumers’ location data (docket 1:24-cv-11170). The filing in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts came the same day the FTC finalized a settlement with the data aggregator (see 2405010071).
Comedy record label 800 Pound Gorilla Media discloses consumers’ Facebook ID (FID) and the titles of videos they have viewed, in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), alleged a class action Thursday (docket 3:24-cv-00787) Thursday in U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego.
San Diego County plaintiff Melissa Ryan has experienced an uptick in spam calls since an early January data breach at her mortgage lender, loanDepot, said her negligence class action Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-03630) Thursday U.S. District Court for Central California.
Medical devices company Masimo and its CEO Joe Kiani made “materially false and misleading statements” touting “purportedly strong demand” for its products following its $1 billion purchase of consumer audio products company Sound United in April 2022, alleged a verified shareholder derivative class action Wednesday (docket 3:24-cv-00781) in U.S. District Court for Southern California.