Privacy

June 29, 2022 Online pharmacy Capsule faces a class action in the wake of a data breach in which the information of more than 27,000 customers was reportedly exposed.

June 29, 2022 Numrich Gun Parts faces a class action over its alleged failure to safeguard the sensitive information of more than 45,000 online customers.

June 24, 2022 A class action alleges ZoomInfo has illegally shared Community Edition Program subscribers’ and their contacts’ personal information and communications with third parties.

June 14, 2022 A class action alleges the operator of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut franchises in the Midwest and Southeast has collected Illinois employees’ fingerprints without consent.

June 8, 2022 The companies who operate People.com face a class action that alleges the website secretly tracks and records visitors’ video-viewing habits and shares the data with Facebook.

May 31, 2022 A proposed class action alleges Patreon has unlawfully disclosed digital subscribers’ identities and video-viewing preferences to Facebook without proper consent to do so.

May 31, 2022 Illuminate Education, Inc. faces a class action after its PupilPath platform was hit by a data breach in early 2022 that reportedly impacted nearly two million students across five states.

May 31, 2022 Parker Hannifin Corporation failed to exercise “reasonable care” in safeguarding the sensitive information of current and former employees and their dependents, a proposed class action alleges.

May 31, 2022 Washington and California residents have filed a class action in which they object to being asked to participate in the American Community Survey.

May 27, 2022 A proposed class action in Illinois alleges Microsoft has failed to obtain informed consent before collecting consumers’ facial scans through the Photos app in Windows 10 and 11.

May 23, 2022 Estée Lauder Companies, Inc. faces another proposed class action lawsuit over its apparently undisclosed collection of consumers’ biometric facial scans in Illinois.

May 20, 2022 SuperCare Health, Inc. faces a class action over its apparent failure to safeguard the personal information of more than 318,000 current and former patients during a data breach last summer.

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.

May 5, 2022 The Neiman Marcus Group faces a class action that alleges the retailer’s “inadequate cybersecurity” is to blame for a 2020 data breach.

May 4, 2022 American Financial Resources faces a class action over a Dec. 2021 data breach in which the information of thousands of the residential mortgage company’s customers was accessed.

April 26, 2022 Consumers allege 7-Eleven has unlawfully collected, stored and used Illinois shoppers’ facial scans without first obtaining written consent to do so or providing statutory disclosures.

April 22, 2022 Mailchimp faces class action after an employee allegedly fell victim to an email phishing scam that ultimately allowed cybercriminals to steal some Trezor wallet users’ assets.

April 21, 2022 A class action alleges Meta Platforms has run afoul of a federal privacy law by “broadcast[ing]” certain personally identifiable information of consumers who watch content on Facebook Live.

April 15, 2022 Political publication The Hill has violated a federal privacy law by sharing digital subscribers’ identities with Facebook without consent to do so, a class action alleges.

April 14, 2022 National Math and Science Initiative has been hit with a class action in the wake of a data breach last year that reportedly exposed the sensitive information of nearly 200,000 individuals.

March 29, 2022 A class action alleges Dun & Bradstreet has illegally misappropriated the identities of California residents to advertise subscriptions to its D&B Hoovers database.

March 25, 2022 A class action alleges The New York Times Company has unlawfully disclosed detailed information about readers’ newspaper subscriptions without authorization to do so.

March 18, 2022 Utility Trailer Manufacturing Co. faces a class action following a cyberattack that compromised the personal information of tens of thousands of current and former employees and their families.

March 14, 2022 A class action alleges Discovery Communications unlawfully shares certain HGTV.com visitors’ personally identifiable information with Facebook without consent to do so.

March 10, 2022 A class action alleges HBO has disclosed HBO Max subscribers’ personally identifiable information to Facebook without consent to do so in an effort to enhance its own targeted advertising.

February 23, 2022 A class action asks the court for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction blocking the school from disclosing the identities of members of its Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee.

February 22, 2022 A class action alleges WebMD has disclosed the personally identifiable information of certain website visitors to Facebook in order to enhance its own targeted advertising abilities.

February 17, 2022 Sea Mar Community Health Centers faces at least four class actions over a data breach in which reportedly three terabytes of sensitive information belonging to more than 650K people was stolen.

February 16, 2022 Insurance services provider Unum Group faces a proposed class action over a more than two-week data breach last fall.

February 11, 2022 Giorgio Armani’s virtual “Try-It-On” feature is at the center of a class action that alleges the retailer does not secure informed consent before capturing consumers’ facial scans.

February 4, 2022 Medical Review Institute of America and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois face a class action in the wake of a “sophisticated” November 2021 cyberattack.

January 31, 2022 StarTek faces a class action after the sensitive personal information of thousands of current and former employees was allegedly stolen during a June 2021 data breach.

January 31, 2022 CareSouth Carolina has been hit with a class action over its apparent failure to safeguard patients’ personal and protected health information from cybercriminals.

January 10, 2022 Netradyne faces a proposed class action that alleges the video analytics and software company has run afoul of an Illinois privacy law by collecting certain drivers’ biometric information.

December 21, 2021 Bansley & Kiener, L.L.P. faces a class action that alleges the accounting and advisory firm failed to safeguard the sensitive client information in its care.

December 14, 2021 OnlyFans.com has run afoul of an Illinois privacy law by capturing and storing without authorization content creators’ facial biometrics, a class action alleges.

December 10, 2021 Planned Parenthood Los Angeles faces a class action that alleges an October 2021 data breach stemmed from the facility’s failure to secure patients’ highly sensitive information.

December 9, 2021 A class action filed over the April 2020 data breach that compromised OK Foods employees’ personal information has been transferred to Arkansas federal court.

December 8, 2021 A class action alleges Pawn America and its associates are to blame for a data breach in which private customer information was stolen by cybercriminals.

December 8, 2021 Ally Bank faces a lawsuit over an April 2021 data breach in which customers’ usernames and passwords were exposed to the bank’s third-party business associates.

December 8, 2021 A class action claims Shiseido Americas Corporation’s virtual cosmetic product try-on feature collects, stores and uses consumers’ facial scans without consent.

December 6, 2021 A class action alleges California Pizza Kitchen is to blame for a 2021 data breach in which the sensitive information of tens of thousands of current and former employees was accessed by an unauthorized party.

December 2, 2021 At least four class actions allege Publishers Clearing House has run afoul of state privacy laws by selling and renting out mailing lists filled with personal customer information.

December 1, 2021 A class action alleges Mason Companies, Inc. has unlawfully sold and rented mailing lists containing personal customer information to “anyone interested in purchasing them.”

November 30, 2021 TransUnion faces a class action over its alleged sale or licensing of expunged or sealed consumer background information to people-search, background reporting websites.

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

November 22, 2021 ReproSource Fertility Diagnostics, Inc. faces a proposed class action over an August 2021 data breach that reportedly affected more than 350,000 patients.

November 17, 2021 Two lawsuits claim InstantCheckmate.com and TruthFinder.com unlawfully used consumers’ identities to advertise subscriptions to their “people search” services.

November 16, 2021 Timios faces a class action that claims the real estate transaction services company failed to protect customers’ personal information from unauthorized access.