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August 21, 2026
A group of patients has dropped a lawsuit accusing a Georgia-based medical billing practice of failing to properly secure the personal information of patients and employees ahead of a September data breach.
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August 21, 2026
Apple misleads paying iCloud+ subscribers into believing its Private Relay feature hides their IP addresses and browsing activity in its default web browser, Safari, but flaws in Apple's technology expose that information, alleges a proposed class action lodged in California state court.
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August 21, 2026
An Illinois federal judge on Thursday certified a class of more than 22,000 truck drivers accusing Union Pacific of violating Illinois' biometric privacy law and denied the railroad's bid for summary judgment, finding that the finger scans in question fall in the purview of the statute and rejecting the railroad's federal preemption and government-contractor defenses.
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August 21, 2026
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP failed to protect the personal data of more than 36,000 clients and third parties during a data breach that occurred Tuesday, according to a proposed class action filed in Georgia federal court.
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August 21, 2026
A Virginia federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from obtaining a database containing information on 17 million commercial driver's license holders, ruling in favor of 21 states that allege it unlawfully demanded the records for immigration enforcement.
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August 21, 2026
A Florida resident pursuing negligence and unjust-enrichment claims against Wiley Rein LLP over a data breach voluntarily dismissed his proposed class action on Friday while leaving the door open to refile, one day after the firm told the D.C. federal court that the two sides were "conferring" on next steps.
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August 21, 2026
Sheri Pan of ZwillGen PLLC secured a precedential Third Circuit victory for GameStop in a closely watched privacy class action claiming the company's use of website tracking technologies violated wiretapping laws, earning her a spot among the cybersecurity and privacy practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 21, 2026
A medical equipment manufacturer failed to protect employees' sensitive data from a cyberattack, potentially exposing their personal information to the dark web, a former employee alleged in a new proposed class action in Indiana federal court.
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August 21, 2026
A London judge ordered Prince Harry and other celebrities Friday to pay the publisher of the Daily Mail more than £9.5 million ($12.9 million) toward its costs in their unsuccessful privacy case, though the final figure could be much higher.
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August 21, 2026
A former trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice's National Security Division has joined Ashurst Perkins Coie LLP as a partner in its complex litigation practice in Chicago after more than 12 years in public service.
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August 20, 2026
The Instagram executive responsible for the algorithm kicked off Meta's defense case Thursday over Tennessee's claims it concealed harm to youths' mental health, testifying the company's efforts to protect children also protect its bottom line.
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August 20, 2026
A Florida federal judge has granted certification to a main class and three subclasses in litigation accusing Zumba Fitness LLC of violating the federal Video Privacy Protection Act by divulging information about those who purchased on-demand training videos to Meta Platforms Inc. and others, finding that such disputes are "tailor made" for certification.
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August 20, 2026
An ex-Facebook executive who wrote a whistleblower memoir urged a California federal judge Thursday to toss a preliminary arbitration decision blocking her from promoting the book or disparaging Meta, while the company countered that she agreed to resolve such disputes by arbitration when she accepted a $780,000 payout.
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August 20, 2026
An attorney for two plaintiffs set to be the second and third bellwether trials out of thousands of lawsuits alleging social media platforms caused children mental health harm urged a Los Angeles judge Thursday to combine their trials into one, although a Meta attorney said they are "fundamentally different cases."
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August 20, 2026
With trial dark Thursday due to juror illness, a California judge overseeing states' claims that Meta Platforms Inc. hid social media's harms heard arguments over evidence, at one point criticizing Meta's efforts to assert attorney-client privilege and calling the company's in-house lawyer "absolutely wrong" about the appropriate standard.
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August 20, 2026
U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., urged the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to boost consumer protections to prevent brokerage fraud through the Automated Customer Account Transfer Service, pointing to "structural weaknesses" in the system they say bad actors are exploiting to drain customers' brokerage accounts.
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August 20, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has secured a nearly $266,000 judgment against a California-based investment adviser and his firm, and banned him from practicing for three years after he allegedly emailed himself confidential client information from his former employer and used it to launch his own investment firm.
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August 20, 2026
A Florida federal judge on Thursday vacated a ruling that compelled arbitration for proposed class claims alleging that Binance laundered stolen cryptocurrency, after a decision came down from the Eleventh Circuit finding that the individuals who filed their actions didn't have contractual relationships with the exchange.
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August 20, 2026
A California federal judge has denied a bid from the company that owns video-messaging app Snapchat to escape allegations from a group of YouTube creators that their content was illegally ingested to train artificial intelligence, saying the YouTubers had sufficiently laid out how users encounter measures meant to protect videos.
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August 20, 2026
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other trade and advocacy groups backed Apple Wednesday with amicus briefs telling the Ninth Circuit to reject an appeal from consumers looking to undo the decertification of a class of roughly 200 million people in an antitrust case targeting App Store policies.
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August 20, 2026
UnitedHealthcare Services Inc. permanently beat a proposed class action alleging that its website's third-party tracking pixels shared information about its visitors, after a California federal judge said Wednesday that "the mere collection of plaintiff's generic insurance browsing data is not enough to demonstrate" concrete injury.
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August 20, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge has granted final approval to a historic $117.5 million settlement stemming from a data breach that affected 31 million customers, although he cut approximately $7 million from the class counsel's fee request.
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August 20, 2026
Gloria Medina of Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP played an integral role in securing a landmark jury verdict finding Meta Platforms Inc. liable for illegally gathering sensitive health information that users entered into the period tracking app Flo, earning her a place among the cybersecurity and privacy attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 19, 2026
A psychologist told a Tennessee jury considering claims against Meta on Wednesday that it's well accepted in his field that social media use can cause behavior that looks like addiction, and social media is a challenging presence in the lives of 15% to 20% of his patients.
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August 19, 2026
Amazon is pressing the full Ninth Circuit to consider a lower court's injunction preventing Perplexity's "uniquely reckless" artificial intelligence tool from purchasing items for users on Amazon, arguing that a panel erred in lifting the block earlier this month.