Healthcare platform provider Navvis & Co. failed to protect Richard Lilly’s personally identifiable information (PII) and personal health information (PHI) in a “preventable” cyberattack, alleged Lilly's class action Thursday (docket 4:24-cv-00063) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Missouri in St. Louis.
Enrique Munoz's class action is one of a dozen named in a motion before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) to transfer the cases in In Re: Citrix Data Security Breach Litigation to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings, said a Thursday filing (docket 1:23-cv-17096) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.
AT&T and TS Mobility’s “deceptive trade practices” and "failure to supervise" their employees have deceived customers in violation of New Jersey law, said a Dec. 1 negligence class action in Bergen County Superior Court, removed Wednesday to U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark (docket 2:24-cv-00174).
Unhappy with the FTC’s “scrutiny of its privacy practices,” Meta alleges various theories why the entire agency is unconstitutional, but its latest arguments show that its claims “have no support,” said the FTC’s reply brief Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-03562) in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in support of its Dec. 13 motion to dismiss Meta’s claims.
Internet searches can reveal a user’s “medical diagnoses, religious beliefs, financial stability, sexual desires, relationship status, family secrets, political leanings, and more,” so it’s “reasonable for the public to expect that their privacy and confidentiality are constitutionally protected,” said the American Civil Liberties Union in a news release Wednesday publicizing its Pennsylvania Supreme Court amicus brief (docket 98 MAP 2023). Other amici on the brief, filed Wednesday, are the ACLU of Pennsylvania, Library Freedom Project, Association of Research Libraries, Freedom to Read Foundation and Internet Archive.
The Republican National Committee plausibly alleges that Google’s conduct of relegating the RNC’s emails to supporters’ Gmail spam folders violates California’s Unfair Competition Law (UCL), said the RNC’s opposition brief Wednesday (docket 2:22-cv-01904) in U.S. District Court for Eastern California in Sacramento to Google’s Nov. 16 motion to dismiss the group’s first amended complaint.
The plaintiffs in six data breach class actions against ESO Solutions are seeking an order consolidating their related cases and one setting scheduling deadlines, said their coordinated joint motion Tuesday (docket 1:23-cv-01557) in U.S. District Court for Western Texas in Austin. ESO is a supplier of data management software to hospitals and first responders.
Google’s conversational AI tool, Bard, introduced in March, is “inherently flawed” because data that's used for creating the algorithm isn't "precise," making the answers given to user prompts "inaccurate,” alleged pro se plaintiff Jeffrey Ito in a complaint Monday (docket 24PS-cv-00061) in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
BMW of West St. Louis defended against the allegations of Telephone Consumer Protection Act wrongdoing in plaintiff Daniel Human’s Dec. 14 first amended complaint by launching into an unusually lengthy attack on the statute’s constitutionality.
Opthamology provider The Retina Group of Washington (RGW) notified patients on its website from July 7 to Nov. 4 of a data breach it experienced March 26 but didn’t disclose that current and former patients’ personally identifiable (PII) or personal health information (PHI) were compromised, a class action alleged Tuesday (dockets 8:24-cv-00079) in U.S. District Court for Maryland in Greenbelt.