Less than a month after U.S. District Judge Denise Casper for Massachusetts in Boston dismissed Norma Egan's privacy lawsuit vs. X-Mode Social over geolocation tracking, the plaintiff returned to the courtroom, this time in U.S. District Court for Virginia. Egan is still claiming unjust enrichment and violation of the Massachusetts Unfair and Deceptive Business Practices Act.
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.
Lowe’s embedded spy tracking pixels in marketing emails to Arizona residents to monitor the behavior of those who subscribed to its email list, alleged a privacy class action (docket 2:24-cv-01030) against the home improvement retailer and Salesforce Sunday in U.S. District Court for Arizona.
Four complaints filed Friday allege plaintiffs’ car insurance rates increased as a result of General Motor’s OnStar connected car technology sharing information with LexisNexis, which sold GM customers’ driving behavior data to car insurance companies without their knowledge or consent. Two also named Verisk Analytics as a defendant that buys GM’s data.
GM and OnStar “surreptitiously” tracked plaintiff Colin Cogle’s driving behavior and location data and sold it to third parties, including LexisNexis, without his knowledge or consent, alleged Cogle's class action Monday (docket 2:24-cv-11062) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan in Detroit.
For “many years,” General Motors, OnStar and LexisNexis Risk Solutions have been collecting location, vehicle and personally identifiable information (PII) from OnStar-equipped vehicles and selling “vast amounts” of that data to third parties, alleged a privacy class action Friday (docket 2:24-cv-02978) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles.
Though OnStar “ostensibly provides” Wi-Fi and location information for emergency services in case of an accident, customers were not aware the subscription in-vehicle security and communications service was “tracking data points about their driving” and sending it to their auto insurance companies to justify a rate increase, said a privacy class action (docket 2:24-cv-10804) Friday in U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan in Detroit.
Numerous class actions challenging the “secret collection and monetization” of cellphone geolocation data have survived motions to dismiss and Norma Egan’s should as well, said the plaintiff's opposition Friday (docket 1:23-cv-11651) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston to X-Mode Social's motion to dismiss her first amended privacy complaint.