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A class action is a type of legal action where a representative individual or group of individuals can bring a claim on behalf of a larger group or class who share a common legal interest.
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

“Littlejohn Notices” Continue to Cause Big Headaches for Taxpayers

Earlier this year, the IRS confirmed that over 400,000 taxpayers were victims of IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn’s 2019 leak of taxpayer data, which is discussed here. Littlejohn stole IRS data that included taxpayers’...more

Baker Botts L.L.P.

CCPA Class Actions Without a Data Breach; Courts Signal a New Litigation Frontier.

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Two recent decisions from the Northern District of California—Shah v. Capital One Financial Corp., No. 24-cv-05985-TLT, 2025 WL 714252 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 3, 2025), and M.G. v. Therapymatch, Inc., No. 23-cv-04422-AMO, 2024 WL...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Court Expands Scope of Private Actions Under California Consumer Privacy Act to Include Pixel Tracking Practices

On March 3, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a significant ruling that has the potential to broaden the risk of liability under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). ...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Business Court Assesses Duties to Protect Patient Information Shared Through Electronic Portals

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A Durham County class action asks whether “My Chart,” a widely used portal that medical providers use to communicate with patients about test results, conditions, and treatments should more aptly be labeled “Our Chart.”...more

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

CIPA and CCPA – Worlds Are Colliding!

Topics that we often discuss on this blog are the use of third-party tracking tools and the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”). Less discussed of late, however, is the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) which,...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Yahoo ConnectID Faces Class Action Over Email Address Tracking as Alleged Wiretap Violation

Yahoo’s ConnectID is a cookieless identity solution that allows advertisers and publishers to personalize, measure, and perform ad campaigns by leveraging first-party data and 1-to-1 consumer relationships. ConnectID uses...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

EdTech and Privacy of Student Information: A Case Study

On March 27, 2025, a class action lawsuit was filed against the education technology (EdTech) company Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, a popular learning management system. The complaint alleges that Instructure...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

California Cryobank Hit with Lawsuit over Sperm Donor Databank Breach

California Cryobank, LLC, the largest sperm bank in the country, faces a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California over an April 2024 data breach. Cryobank provides frozen donor sperm and...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Pennsylvania Teacher’s Union Faces Class Action over Data Breach

The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) faces a class action resulting from a July 2024 data breach. The proposed class consists of current and former members of the union as well as PSEA employees and their...more

Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP

Insured Files Lawsuit Over Coverage for Disclosure of Private Health Information

An insured who purchased insurance specifically for privacy injury liability was recently forced to sue its insurer after it denied coverage. The insured allegedly “installed web beacons and cookies on its platforms so that...more

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Courts Are Still Willing To Dismiss Data Breach Lawsuits for Lack of Standing

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In data breach litigation, courts generally find plaintiffs have standing such that their complaints may proceed past the pleading stage when it is alleged that sensitive information was impacted and there is an allegation of...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: February 2025

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Keypoint: In this post: (1) How a privacy policy can defeat a plaintiff’s “delayed discovery” argument; (2) Two CA state courts reject plaintiffs’ allegations concerning personal jurisdiction; (3) Three courts dismiss PR/TT...more

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Scientific American Unable to Kick VPPA Class Action

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In a notable development for corporate defendants grappling with consumer privacy litigation, the Southern District of New York has recently issued a decision in Lee v. Springer Nature America, Inc., embracing a broadened...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

DISA Global Faces Class Action After Cyber-Attack

Last week, two separate class actions were filed in the federal district court for the Southern District of Texas against DISA Global Solutions (DISA), a third-party employment screening services provider, related to an April...more

Kilpatrick

Data breach class actions – Northern District of Georgia dismisses four substantive claims, but two survive

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Takeaway: Former FBI Director Robert Mueller once famously said, “There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be.” These days cyberattacks seem to happen all the time. And when a...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

NewsBank Hit with Class Action over Employee Data Breach

Last week, a class action was filed against NewsBank, Inc., a Florida-based news database company, related to a 2024 breach of employee personal information. NewsBank provides a database of archived news publications...more

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First Lawsuit Filed Under Washington’s My Health My Data Act

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The first class action complaint was filed under Washington’s My Health My Data Act (“MHMDA”) on February 10, 2025, more than a year after the law’s passage. When the law passed in April 2023, MHMDA was novel for its broad...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Class Certification Granted – California Website Tracking Lawsuit Reminds Businesses about Notice Risks

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A California federal district court recently granted class certification in a lawsuit against a financial services company. The case involves allegations that the company’s website used third-party technology to track users’...more

Clark Hill PLC

Illinois Supreme Court Affirms Dismissal of Data Breach Class Action for Lack of Standing

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On Jan. 24, the Illinois Supreme Court, in Petta v. Christie Business Holdings Company, PC, affirmed the dismissal of a putative class action following an alleged data breach because the named plaintiff failed to allege any...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

The Columbus City Hall Cyber Attack: Key Takeaways

This past July, the City of Columbus, Ohio experienced a significant data breach. Hackers were able to breach Columbus’ network and gained access to private information of city employees and residents. Initially, the City...more

Blank Rome LLP

Second Circuit’s Broad Reading of VPPA May Spark New Wave of Litigation

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The Second Circuit recently issued a ruling in a class action under the Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”) that departs considerably from other federal courts on several key issues. The Court’s recent decision in Salazar...more

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Australia: Long Awaited Australian Privacy Reform Comes to Fruition

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The Australian Government has today published a draft Bill outlining the next steps in Australia’s Privacy Act Review process.  The changes to be implemented by the Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 include...more

WilmerHale

Year in Review: CCPA Litigation Trends from 2023

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This post is part of a series of articles we are doing on 2023 data protection litigation trends. While the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is most known for its onerous privacy compliance obligations, the law also...more

Cozen O'Connor

No Action for Theft of Personal Information Without Loss

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Theft of personal information does not by itself entitle the victim to damages in Canada; proof of loss or harm is required, the Alberta Court of Appeal held recently in Setoguchi v Uber BV. This, and other recent decisions,...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

District of Massachusetts Dismisses Data Breach Class Action for Lack of Injury

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On October 18, 2022, in Webb v. Injured Workers Pharmacy, LLC, the District of Massachusetts dismissed a class action complaint brought by former pharmacy patients alleging that their sensitive personal information had been...more

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