Privacy

April 28, 2021 Einstein Healthcare Network faces a proposed class action lawsuit over an August 2020 data breach that reportedly affected upward of 353,000 individuals.

April 23, 2021 CentralSquare faces a lawsuit centered on an apparent “wave of data breaches” in 2017 and 2018 that reportedly affected approximately 300,000 individuals.

April 22, 2021 Geico and parent co. Berkshire Hathaway face a class action in the wake of a data breach that reportedly took place from November 24, 2020 to March 1, 2021.

April 22, 2021 A lawsuit claims Americold Logistics collected scans of workers’ fingerprints for timekeeping purposes without providing proper disclosures and obtaining consent.

April 21, 2021 Bank of America faces another class action that claims the financial institution has lacked urgency in securing unemployment benefits for Californians amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

April 15, 2021 A lawsuit claims Signature Systems unlawfully collected and stored the fingerprints of its clients’ employees without proper disclosures or consent.

April 14, 2021 A lawsuit claims RocketReach unlawfully used residents’ identities to sell subscriptions to its paid database service without first securing consent to do so.

April 14, 2021 Ledger and Shopify have been hit with a proposed class action over a mid-2020 data breach that allegedly exposed Ledger customers as targets for hackers.

April 12, 2021 A lawsuit claims Smithfield Packaged Meats unlawfully scanned workers’ fingerprints without first providing proper disclosures and obtaining consent to do so.

April 9, 2021 A class action alleges Google breaks its promises to never sell users’ personal information to third parties and to allow individuals to decide how their information is used “billions of times every day."

April 9, 2021 Infinity Insurance Company and parent Kemper Corporation have been named in a proposed class action over a reported late-December 2020 data breach.

April 6, 2021 A class action alleges Dickey’s Barbecue Restaurants failed to exercise reasonable care in safeguarding customers’ personal information in light of a months-long data breach.

April 6, 2021 Months after updating its terms of use, Respondus faces a class action that alleges the company’s online exam proctoring software formerly did not comply with an Illinois privacy law.

April 2, 2021 A lawsuit claims Lumen Technologies unlawfully intercepted the electronic communications of Florida consumers who’ve visited centurylink.com.

March 31, 2021 A lawsuit alleges Hematogenix scanned workers’ fingerprints for timekeeping purposes without first securing consent to do so or making mandatory disclosures.

March 30, 2021 National Western faces a proposed class action over an August 2020 data breach that reportedly affected thousands of customers.

March 25, 2021 Frontier Airlines, Inc. faces a proposed class action over its apparent practice of tracking Florida website visitors’ electronic communications.

March 24, 2021 A class action alleges Old Navy, Norton Lifelock and Banana Republic have unlawfully tracked, recorded or intercepted the “electronic communications” of those in Florida who visit the companies' websites.

March 24, 2021 A class action claims “known vulnerabilities” within Amazon Web Services’ cloud storage environment played a major role in the 2019 Capital One data breach that affected—and continues to affect—more than 106 million consumers.

March 23, 2021 A lawsuit alleges Bradley University has collected students’ biometric information by way of a remote exam proctoring tool without proper consent or disclosures.

March 19, 2021 A class action claims Americold Realty Trust failed to adequately protect current and former employees’ private information from a late-2020 data breach.

March 15, 2021 Ray-Ban.com visitors have had their interactions with the website tracked, recorded and/or intercepted by Luxottica of America in violation of a Florida privacy statute, a class action claims.

March 15, 2021 ProctorU faces a proposed class action that claims the company’s online test-proctoring software unlawfully collects and stores students’ biometric information.

March 15, 2021 A proposed class action claims The Home Depot, Inc. has violated a Florida privacy law by secretly intercepting customers’ interactions with its website.

March 9, 2021 A class action alleges MicroBilt has intentionally failed to ensure the maximum possible accuracy of the consumer information it sells to third parties.

March 8, 2021 A proposed class action claims DePaul University’s use of a remote proctoring tool for online exams constitutes a violation of an Illinois biometric privacy law.

March 5, 2021 Popeyes failed to provide proper disclosures and obtain written consent before scanning employees’ fingerprints for timekeeping purposes, a class action alleges.

March 4, 2021 A proposed class action claims Fandango Media, LLC has overstepped a Florida privacy law by recording and tracking users’ interactions with its website.

March 2, 2021 A class action claims Ralph Lauren has collected and stored the fingerprints of Aurora, Ill. factory store workers without obtaining written consent to do so or making mandatory disclosures.

February 26, 2021 A proposed class action alleges Mayflower Transit, LLC has secretly recorded calls with California consumers without their knowledge or consent.

February 25, 2021 A class action claims Vero Beach, FL and its police dept. violated the constitutional rights of East Spa customers as they surveilled the business amid an investigation into suspected human trafficking.

February 24, 2021 A lawsuit claims Digital Realty required employees to scan their fingerprints for door access without providing proper disclosures and obtaining consent.

February 19, 2021 Accellion faces a proposed class action over a Dec. 2020 data breach affecting clients ranging from law firms to government agencies to universities.

February 19, 2021 A proposed class action claims Shippers Warehouse of Illinois, Inc. has unlawfully scanned employees' fingerprints without issuing proper disclosures and consent.

January 29, 2021 Mednax, Inc. and Pediatrix Medical Group face a proposed class action over a June 2020 data breach that reportedly affected nearly 1.3 million patients.

January 28, 2021 A class action claims Nuance Communications has collected Illinois residents' voiceprints in violation of state privacy law.

January 27, 2021 US Fertility faces a class action over a month-long 2020 data breach.

January 25, 2021 A class action claims the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency “secretly” recorded calls without informing those on the other end of the line.

January 25, 2021 Petco faces a class action that claims it unlawfully collected photographs of workers’ faces without providing proper disclosures and obtaining consent to do so.

January 22, 2021 Rady Children’s Hospital faces a class action over a data breach of third-party vendor Blackbaud’s systems that reportedly affected nearly 19,800 patients.

January 21, 2021 A class action alleges the company behind the Premom app has shared users' personal info and location data with third-party Chinese data collection cos. without consent to do so.

January 21, 2021 Party City scanned employees’ fingerprints for timekeeping purposes without providing proper disclosures and obtaining consent to do so, a class action alleges.

January 19, 2021 A proposed class action claims Illinois residents’ personal information was advertised on Intelius.com without their prior consent.

January 18, 2021 A class action claims the "free previews" on Spokeo.com violate the Illinois Right of Publicity Act with their use of residents' names, photos and/or likenesses.

January 13, 2021 A class action claims Classmates.com has "misappropriated" the names, photos and likenesses of California residents without securing consent to do so.

January 8, 2021 A class action claims EcoATM failed to comply with an Illinois privacy law before collecting customers’ facial scans at its in-store smart device recycling kiosks.

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.