Privacy

October 1, 2021 Syracuse University faces a class action over its apparent failure to safeguard thousands of individuals’ personal information from unauthorized access.

October 1, 2021 ZoomInfo faces a proposed class action over its alleged practice of using California consumers’ private information to advertise subscriptions to ZoomInfo.com.

September 30, 2021 Elekta faces a class action over an April 2021 data breach that reportedly compromised the personal information of “hundreds of thousands” of its clients’ patients.

September 27, 2021 Toyota faces a class action that alleges it has violated a Wash. state privacy law by downloading and storing the text messages of smartphones connected to the infotainment systems in certain Toyota and Lexus vehicles.

September 21, 2021 A class action has been filed over an alleged UC San Diego Health data breach in which hackers reportedly gained unauthorized access to employees’ email accounts.

September 21, 2021 A class action alleges Samsung has violated an Illinois privacy law by collecting, capturing, storing and using without consent the facial scans of individuals who appear in photos stored on Samsung devices.

September 20, 2021 The publishers of "Security Products" and "Word Seeks" have been hit with a class action over their alleged practice of exchanging, renting or otherwise disclosing without consent subscriber data to third parties.

September 17, 2021 A class action claims Illinois Subway workers have been required to scan their fingerprints into the restaurant chain’s point-of-sale system in violation of state law.

September 17, 2021 A lawsuit claims Target has collected consumers’ facial geometries through its “Virtual Try-On” feature without satisfying the requirements of an Illinois law.

September 17, 2021 St. Joseph’s/Candler Health System, Inc. faces lawsuit over a data breach that allegedly allowed criminals to access patients’ personal and medical information.

September 16, 2021 Two Wash. residents allege Ford has violated a state privacy law by downloading and storing copies of text messages on smartphones connected to vehicles' infotainment systems.

September 14, 2021 A late-2020 data breach is the subject of a lawsuit filed against Neighborhood Healthcare, Health Center Partners of Southern California and Netgain Technology.

September 13, 2021 The Paradies Shops faces a lawsuit over an October 2020 data breach that reportedly compromised the personal information of more than 76,000 employees.

September 10, 2021 A lawsuit alleges Brainshark has collected scans of consumers’ faces without providing statutory disclosures or obtaining their written consent to do so.

September 10, 2021 A class action claims Amazon has violated an Illinois privacy law by collecting scans of consumers’ facial features through its virtual “try-on” programs.

September 8, 2021 A lawsuit claims Indiana residents’ photographs and personal information have been used without their consent to promote Classmates.com subscriptions and products.

September 1, 2021 A lawsuit claims Amazon has violated an Illinois privacy law by collecting voiceprints through its Alexa virtual assistant without making statutory disclosures.

September 1, 2021 Northeast Radiology and Alliance HealthCare face claims that they failed to protect patients’ sensitive personal and medical information from unauthorized access.

August 31, 2021 A class action looks to “put a stop to” IMI Precision Engineering’s allegedly unauthorized collection, storage and use of employees’ biometric data.

August 30, 2021 Automation Personnel Services faces a class action over a November 2020 data breach that reportedly compromised employees’ personal information.

August 27, 2021 A lawsuit claims magazine publisher Meredith Corporation has unlawfully sold subscribers’ information for commercial purposes without their consent.

August 19, 2021 A lawsuit alleges the Art Institute of Chicago has collected Illinois residents’ biometric information without first obtaining consent or making statutory disclosures.

August 18, 2021 A proposed class action has been filed in the wake of a February 2021 data breach that reportedly exposed the personal information of Walmart pharmacy patients.

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.

August 11, 2021 Netgain and CareSouth face a class action in the wake of a December 2020 ransomware attack that reportedly exposed a wealth of personal patient information.

August 9, 2021 A handful of magazine publishers have been hit with class actions that allege they rented, exchanged and/or otherwise disclosed without consent subscribers’ information to third parties who in turn shared it with others.

August 5, 2021 A class action alleges Vertafore has illegally obtained, used and redisclosed millions of records from the Florida Dept. of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles without obtaining prior consent to do so.

August 2, 2021 Forefront Dermatology faces a proposed class action over a Spring 2021 data breach that reportedly affected approximately 2.4 million patients.

July 30, 2021 Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. and Gallagher Bassett Services face a class action over a data breach that reportedly occurred between June and September 2020.

July 30, 2021 CSI Financial Services, LLC faces a proposed class action over a “massive and preventable” data breach that reportedly occurred earlier this year.

July 28, 2021 A lawsuit claims Pella Corporation has collected employees’ biometric information through job-related temperature scans without complying with a state privacy law.

July 26, 2021 Waste Management faces a class action over a January 2021 data breach that reportedly affected over 268,000 employees, former employees and their dependents.

July 21, 2021 A class action claims Hearst Communications violated an Illinois privacy law by selling lists of its subscribers’ identities to “anyone willing to pay for [them].”

July 20, 2021 Elekta faces a class action over a ransomware attack that reportedly compromised all of the personally identifiable patient information housed in its cloud-based data storage system.

July 20, 2021 A class action claims Lemonade unlawfully collected Illinois residents’ facial geometries through videos uploaded as part of the claims process on the insurer’s website.

July 19, 2021 Advocate Aurora Health faces a lawsuit over a series of data breaches that reportedly compromised the personal and health information of more than 100,000 patients.

July 15, 2021 Soundhound has collected and disclosed Illinois residents’ voiceprints without obtaining written consent to do so, a proposed class action claims.

July 14, 2021 A class action contends that the Sidewalk network built into Amazon’s Ring doorbells and Echo smart speakers essentially steals consumers’ paid-for internet bandwidth without consent.

July 13, 2021 The Blackstone Group faces a class action that alleges the private equity firm violated an Illinois privacy law when it obtained genetic information upon its acquisition of Ancestry.com.

July 9, 2021 20/20 Eye Care Network and iCare Health Solutions face a proposed class action over a data breach that reportedly compromised customers’ sensitive information.

July 9, 2021 Walmart faces a class action over its alleged practice of collecting warehouse workers’ voiceprints without first obtaining consent and providing proper disclosures.

July 7, 2021 Family Dollar and Dollar Tree have allegedly scanned workers’ fingerprints without providing statutory disclosures or obtaining written consent to do so.

July 6, 2021 A proposed class action claims Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant secretly records conversations users never intended Alexa, or anyone else, to hear.

July 6, 2021 A class action alleges Nuwber unlawfully uses the identities of Ill. residents to sell subscriptions to its database containing “detailed reports” available to anyone willing to pay a monthly fee.

July 1, 2021 Apple has failed to sufficiently disclose to Ill. residents that the facial/fingerprint recognition features of iPhones, iPads and MacBooks extract their sensitive biometric information, a class action alleges.

July 1, 2021 A class action claims Mary Kay and Ulta have failed to provide mandatory biometric information privacy disclosures to those who use the companies’ virtual makeup try-on tools.

June 30, 2021 Volkswagen and Audi face a proposed class action after the personally identifiable information of more than 3 million people was reportedly stolen in a data breach.

June 24, 2021 Automation Personnel faces a class action centered on a November 2020 data breach that reportedly compromised the personal information of nearly 300,000 individuals.

June 23, 2021 A Wilmington, NC gas station is the plaintiff in a class action that looks to represent more than 11,000 similar businesses over damages stemming from the Colonial Pipeline shutdown.

June 23, 2021 Scripps Health faces at least two class action over a late-April 2021 data breach in which the sensitive personal and medical information was reportedly compromised by cyber criminals.