Donald Friend sued Google in U.S. District Court for Northern California, seeking to halt its “complex and misleading system and practices” involving businesses advertised on Google Maps, said his Thursday complaint (docket 5:24-cv-03571) in the San Jose court.

DirecTV is attempting to “misappropriate” the security system supporting its pay-TV services, alleged system developer Synamedia Wednesday in a trade secrets suit (docket 2:24-cv-04967) in U.S. District Court for Central California.

Summit Health combines patients’ searches for medical information with their protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII) and sells it to advertisers without their permission, alleged a privacy class action Wednesday (docket 2:24-cv-06972) in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark. The suit also names Meta, Google, PubMatic, Microsoft and Magnite.

Despite Dell's assurances that a data breach of its systems doesn’t pose “significant risk” to those affected because of “limited information impacted,” the breach appears to have been “substantially broader,” alleged a negligence class action Tuesday (docket 1:24-cv-00647) in U.S. District Court for Western Texas.

Education in 2024 “bears very little resemblance to education in previous decades,” and advances in technology have “transformed the pattern of classwork and homework,” said the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition in a 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court amicus brief Tuesday (docket 23-60641). The brief backs the FCC’s Oct. 25 declaratory ruling authorizing E-rate funding for Wi-Fi on school buses (see 2312200040).

Nearly two dozen current and former Lumen Technologies executives and board members breached their fiduciary duties to shareholders and the company by covering up Lumen's ownership of toxic lead cables, alleged a shareholder derivative complaint Tuesday (docket 3:24-cv-00798) in U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana.

Microsoft and co-defendant OpenAI filed separate motions Tuesday to dismiss four of the eight counts in an April 30 complaint alleging that the two companies are “purloining” millions of copyrighted newspaper articles without permission and without payment to “fuel the commercialization” of their generative AI products (see 2404300034). Eight newspapers filed that suit.

Snap’s platform is “designed in unsafe ways,” alleged a survival action complaint (docket 4:24-cv-03521) in U.S. District Court for South Carolina in Columbia. The mother of a 13-year-old Sumter, South Carolina, boy who died by suicide brought the complaint.

Frontier customers are at a “significant risk of identity theft” and other financial harm as a result of an April 13 data breach of the telecom company’s computer systems, alleged a negligence class action Monday (docket 3:24-cv-01418) in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas.

IRobot’s representations to investors about the probability of regulatory approval of its purchase by Amazon and the “adequacy” of the company’s internal controls “were far from reality,” alleged a Securities Exchange Act class action Saturday (docket 1:24-cv-11498) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston.