Student loan servicer Heartland ECSI “failed to institute proper security protocols” to protect individuals’ Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information (PII), alleged a negligence class action Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-00699) in U.S. District Court for Western Pennsylvania.
Healthcare institutions are “particularly vulnerable" to cyberattacks because of the value of the private information they collect and maintain, but defendant DocGo failed to follow cybersecurity best practices, allowing cuber thieves to gain access to current and former patients’ protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII), alleged a negligence class action Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-03594) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York.
Verizon and TracFone Wireless seek the dismissal of Team Marketing Group’s one-count complaint for breach of contract, as the plaintiff fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6), said their joint motion Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-20600) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Miami.
U.S. District Judge Michael Watson for Southern Ohio in Columbus reserved ruling in part and denied in part Vivek Ramaswamy’s March 21 and April 1 motions to dismiss Thomas Grant’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint, said the judge’s signed opinion and order Friday (docket 2:24-cv-00281).
General Motors' “about-face” decision to stop selling driver data from OnStar-equipped vehicles, shortly after a March New York Times article that “exposed its deficient privacy practices,” supports the assertion that “its customers were not aware of GM’s surreptitious data collection and sharing,” alleged a class action (docket 4:24-cv-11221) Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan in Flint.
T-Mobile moved Wednesday to compel arbitration in an 18-case multidistrict data breach litigation because all the more than three dozen plaintiffs in those actions agreed “on numerous occasions” to arbitrate any claims they may have against T-Mobile, said its motion (docket 4:23-md-03073) in U.S. District Court for Western Missouri in Kansas City. The plaintiffs can’t avoid “their contractual obligations,” it said.
The Universal Service Administrative Co. owes Data Research Corp. (DRC) $9.9 million, plus interest, for broadband services it provided more than 20 years ago to the Puerto Rico Department of Education (PRDOE) under the federal E-rate program, DRC's complaint Wednesday alleges (docket 3:24-cv-01211) in U.S. District Court for Puerto Rico in San Juan.
LTD Broadband asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Wednesday to overturn the FCC's denial of its Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase (RDOF) I auction long-form application. It filed a partially redacted petition (docket 24-1017). LTD was the largest RDOF winner, receiving an award of roughly $1.3 billion to deploy broadband to 528,088 locations across more than a dozen states (see 2012070039).
Online storage company Dropbox disregarded the rights of users by “intentionally” and “recklessly” failing to take adequate measures to protect their personally identifiable information (PII) and allowing it to be accessed in a data breach it purportedly discovered April 24, alleged a negligence class action Tuesday (docket 3:24-cv-02731) in U.S. District Court for Northern California.
Section 1201(a) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act “grants the power to a component of Congress,” the librarian of Congress, “to decide who may access works of authorship,” said Benjamin Margo of Wilson Sonsini in oral argument Monday (docket 23-5159) before the U.S. Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit. He was arguing on behalf of the three plaintiff-appellants challenging Section 1201's constitutionality on First Amendment grounds (see 2311300055).