Wiretap Act

October 9, 2025 A class action lawsuit claims that several of Disney’s YouTube channels collect personal data from children under 13 without parental consent.

October 1, 2025 An SSM Health class action settlement offers privacy protections and cash to end a lawsuit over the allegedly illegal sharing of patient data without consent.

September 26, 2025 Google and Flo will pay a combined $56M to settle a class action alleging the menstrual tracking app illegally shared users’ data with Google and Meta.

April 23, 2025 A class action suit alleges Toyota and Connected Analytic Services have collected and sold to third parties, including Progressive, vast amounts of location and vehicle data.

March 31, 2025 If approved, a $3.5 million Flo app settlement will resolve class action claims that alleged Flurry illegally harvested user data from the popular period tracking tool.

January 31, 2025 A class action claims Allstate and subsidiary Arity have unlawfully harvested and profited from the sale of consumer data collected through mobile apps.

August 13, 2024 Twilio, Verve Group and Amplitude face lawsuits that allege the companies’ software development kits allow secret backdoor access to consumers’ devices.

July 26, 2024 A class action alleges Meta has illegally intercepted the confidential communications of Paramount+, ESPN+, Hulu and Starz subscribers with Facebook accounts.

March 20, 2023 A class action alleges eufy’s privacy claims are misleading in that the brand’s security cameras upload biometric facial data and live footage to the cloud in a format that’s unencrypted and viewable by third parties.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

November 11, 2021 A Phoenix resident alleges design firm HDR has unlawfully observed and monitored without consent the communications and postings of members of two private Facebook groups.

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.

May 21, 2021 A lawsuit claims Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant secretly makes and stores recordings of conversations even when consumers do not intend to activate the device.

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 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 5, 2020 Google and Alphabet face a class action that alleges internet users are effectively powerless against the companies' data collection and tracking practices.

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.

November 27, 2018 A former Brooklyn prosecutor and several high-ranking co-defendants face a lawsuit filed on behalf of those caught up in an illegal 18-month wiretapping operation.