Christopher Brown reports: Meta Platforms Inc. must face a proposed class action alleging it collected the personal health information of patients without their consent in violation of state and federal privacy laws and against its own privacy policies, a federal court ruled. Five anonymous plaintiffs allege in the consolidated lawsuit that Meta intercepted the health information…
Category: Court
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority won against Meta in Oslo District Court
Today, Wednesday 6 September, Oslo District Court ruled in the case between Meta and the Data Protection Authority. The court decided in favour of Data Protection Authority. In July, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority urgently imposed a temporary ban on behavioural marketing on Facebook and Instagram. Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, asked the Court…
Tech Industry Group Halts Arkansas Age Checks for Social Media
Andrea Vittorio reports: A tech industry group won a federal court order halting the implementation of an Arkansas law that requires parental permission to register for social media accounts and online age checks to access certain platforms. The Thursday ruling from the US District Court for the Western District of Arkansas prevents the state’s attorney general from…
Berkshire’s Geico must face privacy lawsuit over driver’s license disclosure
Jonathan Stempel reports: Geico must face a proposed nationwide class action accusing the car insurer of violating customers’ privacy by disclosing hundreds of thousands of driver’s license numbers to identity thieves looking to collect fraudulent unemployment benefits. In a decision on Monday, U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto in Brooklyn accepted a magistrate judge’s recommendation that…