Privacy

January 8, 2021 Belden has been hit with a lawsuit over a November 2020 data breach that reportedly compromised the information of thousands of current and former employees.

January 8, 2021 Blommer Chocolate Company has collected workers’ fingerprint scans without first providing proper disclosures or securing permission to do so, a lawsuit claims.

January 8, 2021 The AFTRA Retirement Fund faces a proposed class action over an October 2019 data breach that reportedly compromised certain participants’ personal information.

January 7, 2021 A proposed class action has been filed against Dental Care Alliance, LLC over a Fall 2020 data breach that reportedly affected one million patients.

January 6, 2021 Envoy Air allegedly scanned workers’ fingerprints and hands for timekeeping purposes without making proper disclosures and obtaining permission to do so.

December 22, 2020 A class action claims Petco failed to adequately protect customers’ personal information from a data breach that reportedly affected PupBox subscribers.

December 18, 2020 American Bank Systems faces a proposed class action over a data breach in which unauthorized parties reportedly stole over 50 gigabytes of data.

December 18, 2020 A lawsuit claims the Ritz-Carlton of Chicago collected and disclosed employees’ fingerprint data for timekeeping purposes without proper notice and 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 10, 2020 A class action claims Vertafore’s failure to adopt and maintain reasonable security measures caused a data breach that affected 27.7 million Texas drivers.

December 9, 2020 The operators of Clear Choice Cannabis face a lawsuit that claims the dispensary has sent spam text messages to consumers who never consented to receive them.

December 9, 2020 A class action claims Panera unlawfully collected and stored employees’ fingerprint data without fulfilling specific disclosure requirements.

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.

December 4, 2020 Friend Family Health Center unlawfully uses employees’ fingerprints to track their work hours without providing proper disclosures and obtaining consent.

December 3, 2020 A lawsuit alleges Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associates’ failure to implement proper security measures allowed patients’ data to be compromised in a breach.

December 2, 2020 A class action claims Ancestry used consumers’ personal information to advertise and sell its subscription products without obtaining their consent to do so.

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 24, 2020 A lawsuit claims the parent entity behind Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut and other fast food brands failed to obtain employees’ consent to scan their fingerprints.

November 24, 2020 A lawsuit claims Live Auctioneers' inadequate security measures allowed hackers to access 3.4 million accountholders private information in a data breach.

November 20, 2020 A lawsuit claims Odyssey Fun World collected workers’ fingerprints without making proper disclosures or obtaining consent to acquire and use the information.

November 20, 2020 Enova faces a class action over its alleged failure to provide statutory disclosures and obtain consent before collecting workers’ fingerprint data.

November 13, 2020 A lawsuit claims Peri Formwork Systems violated employees’ privacy rights by collecting their fingerprint data without making proper disclosures.

November 11, 2020 Dickey's Barbeque Pit faces a class action over a months-long data breach that reportedly affected around three million credit card numbers.

November 10, 2020 A privacy class action alleges Paravision mined the faces that appear in photos uploaded to Everalbum without first securing users' consent to do so.

November 9, 2020 A proposed class action claims Artech LLC’s insufficient data security policies and procedures led to a data breach in January 2020.

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

October 30, 2020 Collabera Inc. faces a proposed class action over a data breach that reportedly affected as many as 16,000 of the IT staffing company’s employees.

October 28, 2020 A lawsuit claims Eataly Chicago has overstepped an Illinois privacy law by collecting employees’ fingerprints without first providing proper disclosures.

October 27, 2020 Filters Fast, LLC faces a proposed class action over a “massive data breach” that reportedly occurred between July 15, 2019 and July 10, 2020.

October 22, 2020 A class action claims police “sweeps” of Minnesota's Hennepin County encampments where homeless individuals live have overstepped their constitutional rights.

October 20, 2020 A class action alleges Amazon Web Services and Pindrop Security have run afoul of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act with regard to Illinois consumers' voiceprints.

October 16, 2020 The New York Secretary of State faces a class action that claims the state's lack of a process to dissolve an LLC formed fraudulently through identity theft is unconstitutional.

October 12, 2020 A class action lawsuit has been filed against cbdMD, Inc. and CBD Industries, LLC over two data breaches that reportedly occurred between March and May 2020.

October 9, 2020 A class action claims Amazon's daily temperature checks for Illinois warehouse and fulfillment center workers violate a state biometric privacy law.

October 7, 2020 A proposed class action claims Walgreens has unlawfully collected and stored scans of customers’ faces via cameras equipped with facial recognition technology.

September 29, 2020 Warner Music Group faces a class action lawsuit that alleges the major record label's failure to maintain reasonable cybersecurity measures is to blame for a 2020 data breach.

September 25, 2020 MedMark Services, Inc. failed to secure and protect patients’ personal information from a data breach discovered around November 2019, a proposed class action claims.

September 22, 2020 A Washington resident claims Twitter has used "fraudulent, deceptive, or false means" to obtain users' telephone numbers in order to share such with advertisers.

September 18, 2020 A class action claims Instagram, in contrast to its privacy assurances, has "constantly" accessed users' smartphone cameras while the app is open, and monitored the individuals without consent.

September 16, 2020 Assured Imaging faces a class action over a May 2020 ransomware attack in which patients' private medical and personal information was reportedly compromised.

September 4, 2020 Yodlee has secretly collected and sold consumers' highly sensitive, non-public financial information without consent to do so, a class action alleges.

September 2, 2020 A class action claims Mariano's grocery store operators used store cameras to capture scans of employees’ and shoppers’ faces without their knowledge or consent.

September 2, 2020 A class action claims Ring collected and stored biometric data captured through its video doorbells and cameras without the consent of those who appear in the videos.

September 1, 2020 A class action claims Easy Cash ASAP exposed loan applicants' financial information to "the entire internet" through security vulnerabilities on the lender's website.

August 28, 2020 Class actions claim NBCUniversal has unlawfully disclosed and sold Golf Channel subscribers' viewing data without consent.

August 27, 2020 A class action claims Trump’s Chicago hotel violated an Illinois law by collecting workers’ fingerprints for timekeeping purposes without obtaining written consent.

August 20, 2020 A lawsuit claims United Scrap Metal violated an Illinois privacy law by scanning employees’ fingerprints for timekeeping purposes without making required disclosures.

August 17, 2020 A proposed class action lawsuit claims Securus Technologies, Inc. has unlawfully intercepted and recorded calls between Maine jail inmates and their attorneys.

August 14, 2020 A class action claims the manner in which Blackbaud stored sensitive personal information is among the reasons why the company was hit with a ransomware attack in 2020.