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Latest News in California

  • February 23, 2026

    Meta Can't Use Calif. Law To Ax Ill. Biometric Privacy Dispute

    The protections offered by California's data privacy law are an inferior substitute for those under Illinois' biometric privacy law, an Illinois federal judge found, refusing to allow Meta to escape a proposed class action accusing it of improperly storing Messenger and Messenger Kids users' facial geometries.

  • February 23, 2026

    YouTube VP Says 5-6 Hours Daily 'Very Good' For His Kids

    A YouTube vice president testified Monday in a California bellwether trial over allegations that the platform and Instagram harm children, denying that YouTube was designed to be addictive and saying he'd allowed his children to watch five to six hours a day and that it had been "very good" for them. 

  • February 23, 2026

    Meta Socials 'Druggify' Teen Preoccupations, NM Jury Hears

    An addiction expert testified Monday in the New Mexico attorney general's mental health trial against Facebook and Instagram that teens are unusually vulnerable to social media addiction because of how it "druggifies social validation."

  • February 23, 2026

    Brie, Franco Can't Duck Claims That 'Together' Is a 'Rip-Off'

    A California federal judge has refused to dismiss StudioFest's lawsuit alleging the horror film "Together," starring real-life spouses Alison Brie and Dave Franco, is a "blatant rip-off" of a screenplay the production company pitched to the couple's agents in 2020, saying the complaint plausibly alleges "substantial similarities" between the two works.

  • February 23, 2026

    User Fights To Keep Nvidia 'Decline All' Tracking Suit Alive

    Artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia cannot escape a proposed privacy class action alleging that it secretly installed third-party tracking cookies even after users clicked "decline all" on its website banner, a user has told a California federal judge.

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