California Invasion of Privacy Act

August 8, 2023 A class action lawsuit claims dialysis services provider DaVita has unlawfully shared website visitors’ personal data with third parties, including Facebook, without consent.

June 8, 2023 Three California residents have filed several proposed class action lawsuits in which they accuse certain automakers and retailers of allowing third parties to wiretap the online chat interactions of website visitors without consent.

May 31, 2023 TikTok faces a class action over its alleged collection of non-users’ data whenever they visit a website on which the app’s software development kit is installed.

May 18, 2023 A class action lawsuit claims Microsoft, Qualtrics International and subsidiary Qualtrics LLC have “systematically” captured without consent the private information of Kaiser Permanente website users.

May 9, 2023 A class action lawsuit claims healthcare service group Kaiser Permanente secretly shares the personal data of website visitors with numerous third parties without consent.

February 24, 2023 A class action lawsuit alleges that Sharp Healthcare secretly transmits Sharp.com visitors’ personal data to Meta Platforms (Facebook) without consent.

February 20, 2023 A class action alleges apparel company UNTUCKit has unlawfully recorded calls to its customer service number without notice or consent.

February 17, 2023 Home Depot faces a class action lawsuit that alleges the company “intentionally intercepted” users’ electronic communications by embedding “session replay” software into its website.

February 16, 2023 A class action lawsuit claims The Cheesecake Factory has unlawfully tracked and recorded the online communications of website visitors without consent.

February 13, 2023 A class action lawsuit claims the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center secretly shares private patient data with Meta Platforms (Facebook) without consent.

February 7, 2023 A class action claims Cedars-Sinai Health System and subsidiary Cedars-Sinai Medical Center secretly transmit without consent and to numerous third parties the personal data of Cedars-Sinai.org visitors.

February 3, 2023 A class action alleges GoodRx has secretly shared consumer medical information with Google, Meta, Criteo and other major social media and advertising companies.

January 31, 2023 Carhartt faces a class action that claims the apparel company tracked, recorded, and stored without consent the online communications of website visitors.

January 12, 2023 A class action claims that Sharp Healthcare, the foremost healthcare provider in San Diego and operator of Sharp.com, secretly transmits website visitors’ personal data to Facebook without consent.

January 9, 2023 A class action claims that MemorialCare Medical Group, operator of MemorialCare.org, secretly transmits website visitors’ personal data to Facebook without consent.

December 14, 2022 A proposed class action claims Capital Home Mortgage has recorded telephone conversations with potential buyers without notice or consent.

December 8, 2022 Apple faces a proposed class action that alleges the company’s AirTags have “revolutionized the scope, breadth, and ease of location-based stalking.”

October 25, 2022 Two lawsuits claim Lovisa and Sephora have unlawfully recorded and shared the communications of consumers who use the chat feature on their websites.

October 4, 2022 A class action alleges the Charles Schwab Corporation has unlawfully recorded and examined consumers' voiceprints without express written consent.

September 30, 2022 A class action says details of the video content viewed by ESPN.com and ESPN+ subscribers have been shared by the worldwide leader in sports with Meta Platforms without consent.

September 30, 2022 A class action alleges Chase Bank has used a Microsoft subsidiary’s technology to record and examine California customers’ voiceprints without their express consent or knowledge.

September 14, 2022 A Calif. consumer has filed class actions against BJ’s, Kroger, AIG and Aflac over allegations that the companies have illegally tracked consumers who visit their websites.

August 25, 2022 Oracle America faces a class action that aims to take the worldwide data broker to task for allegedly surveilling and selling the personal information of hundreds of millions of people.

August 16, 2022 A class action alleges Pindrop has violated a California privacy law by recording and analyzing the voices of consumers in the state without obtaining consent.

August 10, 2022 UCSF Medical Center and Dignity Health Medical Foundation face a class action over their alleged use of a Meta (Facebook) tracking pixel on their respective patient portal websites.

August 3, 2022 A proposed class action lawsuit alleges The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. has illegally “wiretapped” its website so as to monitor and record user interactions.

May 17, 2022 The State Bar of Calif. faces a class action over what four plaintiffs allege was the unauthorized disclosure of hundreds of thousands of confidential disciplinary records.

May 16, 2022 A class action alleges data broker Otonomo secretly collects and sells real-time GPS location details for millions of cars worldwide.

November 29, 2021 A lawsuit claims Google unlawfully collected Android users’ personal data through an program known as “Android Lockbox” without first obtaining consent.

October 4, 2021 Nike has been hit with a class action that alleges the sportswear giant has effectively “wiretapped” the communications of visitors to Nike.com in California.

August 12, 2021 A class action alleges Charter Communications violated a California law by recording inbound and outbound sales calls without consumers’ knowledge or consent.

December 15, 2020 A class action alleges Wakefield & Associates has unlawfully recorded debt collection calls in California that pertained to HIPAA-protected medical information.

December 7, 2020 A class action Amazon.com has unlawfully "wiretapped" Flex drivers' private Facebook groups to gain information on union efforts, labor issues and working conditions, among other details.

November 25, 2020 A class action claims WebMD and Mouseflow have secretly recorded WebMD.com visitors’ keystrokes, mouse clicks and possibly personally identifiable information.

November 24, 2020 A class action claims Blizzard Entertainment and Mouseflow, Inc. have illegally "wiretapped" California visitors to WorldOfWarcraft.com.

November 5, 2020 A class action alleges General Motors and Decibel Insight have unlawfully "wiretapped" California visitors to Chevrolet.com.

August 10, 2020 A class action claims the Google Home smart speaker listens in on consumers regardless of whether they utter an activation phrase.

July 30, 2020 A proposed class action claims Google unlawfully collected Chrome users’ personal data even when they choose not to “sync” the web browser to their Google account.

July 15, 2020 No matter what safeguards are put in place, mobile app users cannot prevent Google intercepting, collecting, tracking and selling for profit their browsing histories and internet activity.

June 4, 2020 A UC Santa Barbara educator alleges Zoom's privacy failings allowed an intruder to hijack a webinar with roughly 400 participants and display pornographic footage.

February 18, 2020 World Business Lenders and Fiverr face a class action that alleges the companies placed and recorded marketing calls without first obtaining consent to do so.

October 22, 2018 A lawsuit claims Facebook ignores users' requests to keep their location histories private and instead tracks precise location details anyway.