Skye Witley reports: Pilfered snapshots of patients baring their bodies ahead of life-saving cancer operations and plastic surgeries are unexpectedly landing in the vast landscape of the public internet after cyberattacks, as hackers seek new ways to turn a profit. Campaigns to extort victims during ransomware attacks against health-care providers are evolving, according to lawsuits…
Category: Court
Estee Lauder Beats Lawsuit Over Website Virtual Try-On Feature
Christopher Brown reports: Estee Lauder Cos. Inc. and its technology contractor Perfect Corp. defeated a biometric-privacy lawsuit alleging it collected the face scans of website visitors without their consent through the site’s virtual try-on feature, a federal court ruled. Plaintiffs Celia Castelaz, Brittanie Nalley, Northa Johnson, and Lori Carter failed to show that Estee Lauder…
Madison Square Garden Facial ID Suit Should Advance, Judge Says
Christopher Brown reports: Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. should be required to face allegations that it violated the New York City biometrics law at its entertainment venues, a federal magistrate judge said in a recommendation. The plaintiffs’ allegation that MSG benefited from using their information because it allowed the company to deter litigation and reduce…
Man Lacks Privacy Interest in Nevada Opioid Prescription Records
Holly Barker reports: A California man challenging a pair of GPS tracking warrants that he claimed rested on an unconstitutional search of Nevada’s prescription monitoring program database lost his Ninth Circuit appeal after the court said he had no legitimate expectation of privacy in his records. Pointing to the government’s “long-standing and pervasive regulation of…