Allison Grande

A quartet of California-headquartered consumer law firms were behind nearly three-quarters of the website tracking and data privacy claims that both large and small businesses have reported to cyber insurer Coalition Inc. in recent years, according to a new report released Wednesday. 

A global network of more than 30 national data protection authorities is conducting an enforcement sweep to examine how websites and mobile apps commonly used by children are handling and protecting minors' personal information, the group announced Monday. 

Cloud storage provider Snowflake, along with its clients Ticketmaster and LendingTree, will continue to face sprawling multidistrict litigation over a data breach that hit Snowflake last year, after a Montana federal judge refused several bids to ax or force arbitration of negligence and other claims brought by a wide range of consumers who were impacted by the incident. 

A California federal judge has refused to release CVS Pharmacy Inc. and a marketing partner from a putative class action accusing them of illegally intercepting personal health information from those who visited the retail chain's website, finding that the plaintiff had sufficiently alleged the disclosure of sensitive information and that consumers' loss of control of this data caused concrete harm.

A California federal judge has refused to release LinkedIn Corp. from a proposed class action accusing it of illegally sharing with Meta and Adobe personal information about the online training courses that subscribers watched on its learning platform, finding that the company and its alleged conduct fall within the parameters of federal video privacy law. 

A certified public accounting firm has agreed to pay $60,000 and improve its data security to resolve the New York attorney general's claims that it failed to adequately protect unencrypted Social Security numbers and other personal information swept up in a pair of data breaches or swiftly notify affected clients.

A pair of Audible customers can't sustain claims that the audiobook provider violated California's wiretap law on allegations it shared their browsing and listening activities with Meta Platforms Inc. because they agreed to litigate any disputes under Washington law when they signed up for the service, a federal judge in Seattle held in tossing the proposed class action for now.

A Florida federal judge has given initial approval to a $10 million settlement to resolve a proposed class action accusing Watson Clinic LLP of failing to adequately protect current and former patients' medical imaging records, financial account information and other personal data that was swept up in a 2024 data breach. 

A Florida federal judge has given initial approval to a $10 million settlement to resolve a proposed class action accusing Watson Clinic LLP of failing to adequately protect current and former patients' medical imaging records, financial account information and other personal data that was swept up in a 2024 data breach. 

Video streaming platform Roku Inc. is violating Florida's new data privacy law by collecting and selling children's voice recordings, viewing habits and other personal data without proper notice or consent, the state's attorney general alleged in a lawsuit announced Tuesday.