November 2, 2021 J.B. Hunt Transport faces a class action over a data breach that allegedly saw the personal information of more than 231k driver applicants accessed by unauthorized parties.
November 2, 2021 Rite Aid faces a lawsuit over a Feb. 2021 data breach during which the personal information of thousands of patients was reportedly exposed to unauthorized parties.
November 2, 2021 A class action alleges American Express has violated the law by routinely procuring consumers’ credit reports despite having no permissible purpose for doing so.
November 2, 2021 A lawsuit alleges Ancestry.com unlawfully shared its database of genetic information with acquiring private equity firm Blackstone without authorization to do so.
October 28, 2021 PYOD faces a class action over its alleged filing of confidential consumer report information as part of state court debt collection proceedings.
October 28, 2021 A lawsuit alleges P&G’s collection of Illinois residents’ facial geometries through its Bluetooth-connected smart toothbrush violates a state privacy law.
October 27, 2021 A class action alleges Walmart has collected Illinois employees’ fingerprints despite failing to satisfy the disclosure requirements of a state privacy law.
October 27, 2021 The operators of a Chicago-area Marriott have unlawfully scanned workers’ fingerprints without providing proper disclosures or obtaining consent, a lawsuit alleges.
October 27, 2021 A class action alleges Philadelphia's Horizon House maintained sensitive information in a reckless manner prior to a March 2021 data breach that affected more than 27,000 employees and patients.
October 27, 2021 A proposed class action alleges Consumer Reports has sold magazine subscribers’ identities to third parties without consent to do so.
October 25, 2021 A Navistar employee alleges in a class action that a May 2021 data breach could have been avoided entirely.
October 22, 2021 A class action alleges Method scanned workers’ fingerprints without satisfying Illinois’s disclosure requirements for the collection of biometric data.
October 15, 2021 UF Health Central Florida faces a lawsuit over a May 2021 data breach that reportedly compromised the personal and health information of thousands of patients.
October 8, 2021 A class action alleges NFL Enterprises has unlawfully disclosed to unrelated third parties the personally identifiable information of NFL app users.
October 4, 2021 Nike has been hit with a class action that alleges the sportswear giant has effectively “wiretapped” the communications of visitors to Nike.com in California.
October 4, 2021 Metromile faces a class action over an alleged data breach in which the personal information of more than 100K of the pay-per-mile auto insurance co.'s customers was reportedly compromised.
October 4, 2021 Navistar faces a class action over a May 2021 data breach during which the personal information of current and former employees was reportedly compromised.
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].”
