A data breach at healthcare company Wright & Filippis (W&F) resulted in unauthorized access to highly sensitive patient and employee data for at least 877,584 individuals, alleged a class action (docket 2:22-cv-12961) Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan in Detroit.
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Smartbiz is “one of the most prolific transmitters of illegal robocalls” in the U.S., said Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R) in a complaint filed Monday (docket 1:22-cv-23945) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Miami. She alleges the VoIP company violated the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act and other statutes, plus the FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) “expressly denies” it violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), it said in a notice of removal (docket 1:22-cv-06779) Friday in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago. AWS intends to “defend this matter vigorously,” it said.