Privacy Lawsuit Based on Website Tracking by Service Provider Trimmed
…2011 Flash Cookies Lawsuit Tossed for Lack of Harm–La Court v. Specific Media Judge Recognizes Loss of Value to PII as Basis of Standing for Data Breach Plaintiff — Claridge…
Section 230 Protects Securities Exchange–Saveene v. Remo
…exchange. The buyer claimed that OTC “permitted Remo to disseminate false information” and “failed to properly investigate Remo and his fraudulent actions.” The buyer sued OTC for tortious interference, breach…
TOS Supports Injunction Against Web Scraping–Southwest Airlines v. Kiwi
…CFAA, the Texas computer crime statute, breach of contract, and trademark. The court previously denied Kiwi’s motion to dismiss, without much discussion of the merits. Southwest relied on its breach…
Court Casts Doubt on the Legality of the Data Brokerage Industry–Brooks v. Thomson Reuters
…Definitions Confuse the Judge in a Data Breach Case–In re Blackbaud * A Roundup of CCPA Court Decisions (I Only Know of 7) * CCPA Data Breach Lawsuit Against Walmart…
New Primer on the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)
…the story told with the snark and opprobrium it deserves. Prior CCPA/CPRA Posts * CCPA Definitions Confuse the Judge in a Data Breach Case–In re Blackbaud * A Roundup of…
CCPA Definitions Confuse the Judge in a Data Breach Case–In re Blackbaud
…In a very unfortunate development, cybercriminals hacked into Blackbaud’s database and exfiltrated personal data. I got a few notices about this breach…did you? It was a significant and damaging event…
Grokking the Supreme Court’s TransUnion Decision
…(2021) Related posts: ‘365 for Business’ Users’ Privacy Lawsuit Dismissed–Russo v. Microsoft CCPA Data Breach Lawsuit Against Walmart Fails–Gardiner v. Walmart Data Breach Plaintiff Doesn’t Have Standing in the Absence…
Demonetized YouTuber Loses Lawsuit–Daniels v. Alphabet
…can replead the contract breach claim for failure-to-pay, but the case has lost all of its ideological implications about must-carry obligations and instead has devolved into a routine collections case…
1H 2021 Quick Links, Part 2 (Section 230 and More)
…U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12306 (SDNY Jan. 22, 2021). Facebook, Namecheap and GoDaddy win a Section 230 dismissal of a defamation claim. * State v. Peters, 2021 WL 1957594 (Wash. Ct….
Court Rejects Lawsuit Alleging YouTube Engaged in Racially Biased Content Moderation–Newman v. Google
…judgment regarding the scope and constitutionality of Section 230 of the CDA; (2) equitable claim for an accounting of debts; (3) conversion; (4) replevin; (5) breach of contract; (6) breach…