Cassandre Coyer and Tonya Riley report: The Trump administration faces at least a dozen lawsuits that ask judges to halt what plaintiffs call unprecedented access to the data of private citizens emanating from the disruption of federal agencies. “This is incredibly uncharted territory in terms of having an outside agency that hasn’t been confirmed yet…
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Family’s claims that San Diego County secretly filmed child in hospital room survive, judge rules
Michael Gennaro recently reported: A federal judge declined to dismiss invasion of privacy claims from a family who say San Diego County officials used cameras to spy on a minor patient for over a month in a San Diego children’s hospital. In their 2021 complaint, Madison Meyer and her family said that they didn’t find out about the…
Ninth Circuit upholds $725M Facebook settlement in Cambridge Analytica case, rejects objectors’ appeal
Michael Gennaro reports: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday afternoon that a federal court did not abuse its discretion in 2023 when it approved a $725 million settlement between Facebook, Inc. — now known as Meta — and a settlement class concerning the Cambridge Analytica scandal, an event in which Facebook misused personal data for political purposes. Two…
Court: UnitedHealth Must Answer for AI-Based Claim Denials
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: A proposed class action lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group that claims the company’s insurance unit UnitedHealthCare used of artificial intelligence tools to deny Medicare Advantage claims for medically necessary care has the green light to proceed from a federal judge. In a ruling Thursday, a Minnesota federal judge dismissed some of the plaintiffs’ allegations…