Three trackers collect Buzzfeed consumers’ IP addresses when they visit the entertainment website, without their consent, alleged a privacy class action Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-02753) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.

The net neutrality draft order on the FCC's April 25 open meeting agenda (see 2404030043) will face much the same legal arguments as the 2015 net neutrality order did, with many of the same parties involved, we're told by legal experts and net neutrality watchers.

The FCC's Oct. 25 declaratory ruling authorizing E-rate funding for Wi-Fi on school buses (see 2312200040) is “contrary to law” because it “improperly expands” the schools and libraries universal service program under Section 254 of the Communications Act, said the Competitive Enterprise Institute in an amicus brief April 9 (docket 23-60641) at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Kevin Sinitski received notification from his credit monitoring company that his personally identifiable information (PII) was involved in a V12Software data breach. The Feb. 15 notice from Credit Wise informed Sinitski of an incident he was unaware of, his class action alleged Thursday (docket 5:24-cv-02171) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.

Plaintiffs Dean and Michelle Nasca oppose conditional transfer order 30 (CTO-30) in In Re: Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Liability Litigation, said their notice of opposition Wednesday (docket 3047) before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. The plaintiffs will file a motion to vacate CTO-30, which listed its case against TikTok parent ByteDance and also included tag-along actions Putnam County School District vs. Alphabet Inc. et al and Cumberland County Board of Education vs. Meta Platforms Inc. et al.

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals should grant T-Mobile’s petition for interlocutory review of the district court’s denial of its motion to dismiss the antitrust claims of seven AT&T and Verizon customers who allege their own wireless rates soared as a result of T-Mobile’s 2020 Sprint buy (see 2404090059), said the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in an amicus brief Wednesday (docket 24-8013).

Silicon Valley Mechanical (SVM) stored the personally identifiable information (PII) of plaintiff Patrick Brenan and class members “unencrypted, in an Internet-accessible environment” on its network, allowing cybercriminals to access it using an "extraction tool," alleged a negligence class action Wednesday (docket 5:24-cv-02147) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.

Plaintiff Subspace Omega, a network optimization service provider that closed in 2022, fails to allege exclusionary conduct, said Amazon’s motion Monday (docket 2:23-cv-01772) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle to dismiss Subspace’s antitrust suit.

City of Hope National Medical Center had a responsibility to protect the personally identifiable information (PII) of some 820,000 patients but failed to do so during an Oct. 13 data breach, alleged a class action Tuesday (docket 2:24-cv-02890) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Riverside.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court should reverse the FCC's ruling authorizing E-rate funding for Wi-Fi on school buses (see 2312200040) by interpreting the Communications Act “in accordance with its ordinary meaning,” Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Ted Cruz (Texas) and six other Republican senators wrote in an amicus brief Tuesday (docket 23-60641). The brief supports Maurine and Matthew Molak's petition to defeat the Oct. 25 declaratory ruling (see 2404030010).