Technology

January 17, 2023 Samsung faces a class action lawsuit that claims the electronics company failed to protect consumers’ personal information from a cyberattack in early August 2022.

January 16, 2023 Twitter faces a class action that alleges an API "defect" allowed hackers to “scrape” the personal data of hundreds of millions of users.

January 13, 2023 A class action lawsuit accuses Chegg, Inc. of unlawfully subscribing consumers to paid programs and later charging them without authorization when the subscription auto-renews.

January 13, 2023 A class action lawsuit accuses Steel River Systems, LLC of failing to protect consumers’ information from a “massive” data breach between May and July 2022.

January 12, 2023 A class action lawsuit accuses Hope College, a private liberal arts school in Michigan, of failing to protect students’ and employees’ personal data from a cyberattack in September 2022.

January 12, 2023 A class action lawsuit accuses Retreat at Lancaster County and Retreat Behavioral Health LLC of failing to protect patients’ personal information from a data breach in July 2022.

January 10, 2023 A class action accuses Salesforce, Inc., a provider of customer relations management software, of wiretapping the online chat interactions of visitors to RiteAid.com without consent.

January 9, 2023 A proposed class action claims that the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G smartphone comes with 21 percent less storage space than advertised.

January 9, 2023 A class action alleges that Spine Media LLC, operator of parenting website Yourbump.com, transmits website visitors’ personal data to Facebook without consent.

January 9, 2023 A proposed class action lawsuit accuses Everest Global Services, Inc. of failing to protect customers’ personal data from a cyberattack in August 2022.

January 9, 2023 Gateway Rehab faces a class action that claims the medical center failed to protect patients’ personal health information from a data breach in June 2022.

January 6, 2023 A proposed class action alleges solar energy companies HahaSmart and Affiliate Solar have misleadingly claimed that their solar panels will help consumers save money.

January 6, 2023 A class action lawsuit accuses two California-based human resources management companies of failing to protect customers’ personal information from a 2022 cyberattack.

January 6, 2023 M.C. Dean, Inc. faces a class action that claims the building tech corporation failed to protect the personal information of network users from a 2022 cyberattack.

January 4, 2023 Apple faces a class action alleging the Apple Watch is misleadingly advertised as able to accurately measure blood oxygen levels regardless of the user’s skin tone.

January 4, 2023 Apple hit with a class action lawsuit that alleges it has failed to adequately inform consumers that the new 12- through 14-series iPhones do not come with chargers.

January 4, 2023 A class action accuses Samsung Electronics America, Inc. of falsely advertising its Galaxy Z Fold3 smartphone as durable enough to withstand 200,000 folds and unfolds.

December 23, 2022 A proposed class action alleges Belkin International has misrepresented the capacity of its popular portable device chargers.

December 21, 2022 A class action alleges Groupon has illegally profited from the misappropriation of the “goodwill and reputations” of tens of thousands of unaffiliated small businesses nationwide.

December 13, 2022 Liberty Mutual faces a class action that claims the online communications of website visitors were tracked, recorded, and stored via spyware without consent.

December 8, 2022 Class action claims Avis Budget Group websites “intentionally intercepted” online visitors’ electronic communications by using “session replay” spyware.

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.”

November 29, 2022 A class action alleges Adidas and Crocs secretly “wiretap” private conversations held in the chat feature on their respective websites.

November 22, 2022 Lenovo faces a class action that claims its Legion T5 28IMB05 desktop computer consistently freezes or crashes due to apparently “incompatible” Nvidia audio and graphics drivers.

November 18, 2022 A class action alleges Apple records consumers’ app activity even after they have disabled tracking tools in their iPhone or iPad privacy settings.

November 17, 2022 The Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health faces a class action after allegedly installing a contact-tracing app on more than one million Android users’ smartphones without their knowledge or consent.

November 16, 2022 A class action alleges the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card has been sold with a “defective and dangerous” power cable plug and socket that can melt during normal use.

November 9, 2022 Apple and Amazon face a class action that alleges the retailers have worked together to eliminate or at least severely reduce the “competitive threat” posed by third-party merchants.

November 9, 2022 A class action alleges Toyota has equipped certain vehicles with “telematics” that have allegedly been rendered obsolete after wireless carriers phased out their 3G networks earlier this year.

November 7, 2022 Twitter faces a class action after executing a reportedly rushed and chaotic “mass layoff” of roughly 3,700 employees, approximately half of its workforce, on November 4, 2022.

November 1, 2022 A class action alleges the websites for each NFL team have unlawfully shared the personal identifying information of newsletter subscribers with Facebook without consent.

October 26, 2022 Major League Baseball’s media arm faces a class action that alleges it has illegally disclosed certain personal information of MLB.com subscribers to Meta Platforms (Facebook).

October 17, 2022 A California man has filed a proposed class action in which he alleges he was unable to use the Snack video dating app because he is more than 35 years old.

October 5, 2022 A class action alleges Google's video-streaming services unlawfully retain consumers' video rental history and personal information.

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 29, 2022 Parler Inc. faces a proposed class action lawsuit that alleges the right-wing social media app has unlawfully sent consumers unsolicited, automated text messages.

September 20, 2022 A class action alleges Meta injects hidden JavaScript code into external websites to work around an April 2021 Apple iOS privacy update.

September 15, 2022 Twitter faces a class action that alleges the platform harmed investors financially by failing to be upfront about “major security problems” first reported by a whistleblower to CNN last month.

September 9, 2022 A class action alleges mobile analytics firm Kochava has illegally collected and stored California consumers’ precise location data and then sold that information to its clients.

September 7, 2022 A class action alleges YouTube has run afoul of an Illinois biometric privacy law by capturing and storing scans of consumers’ faces by way of its “Face Blur” tool.

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 17, 2022 Uber faces a proposed class action stemming from the revelation last month that a cache of hundreds of thousands of internal records were leaked to The Guardian.

August 10, 2022 A lawsuit claims Google unlawfully reneged on its promise to provide free access to its Workspace platform for users who signed up during a free-for-life promotion.

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.

August 2, 2022 A class action alleges Fandom, Inc. has violated federal law by disclosing users’ identities and video-viewing preferences to Meta Platforms (Facebook) without proper consent.

August 1, 2022 A class action alleges LinkedIn has failed to provide certain mandatory disclosures before enrolling consumers into automatically renewing—and next-to-impossible-to-cancel—LinkedIn Premium subscription plans.

July 29, 2022 Uber and Lyft face a proposed class action over their alleged practice of increasing customer prices while suppressing driver pay.

July 19, 2022 Hewlett Packard faces a class action over its alleged display of misleading strikethrough prices and fake limited-time offers on its website.