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The U.S. Supreme Court may decide whether you can act on that “Dear valued customer, we regret to inform you that your data may have been compromised …” letter or e-mail with an individual or class action lawsuit. Right now, courts around the country d… Continue reading Supreme Court May Decide Data Breach Victims’ Rights
More than 70 different class action suits are in the works Continue reading Equifax is facing a towering pile of class action law suits
If you checked to see if your social security number was stolen, there’s no need to worry that you’ve signed away your right to join a class action lawsuit. Continue reading Class Action Lawyers Say Equifax Can’t Prevent You From Suing Them
Two class-action lawsuits have been filed against Equifax after the company divulged a data breach potentially affecting 143 million U.S. consumers. Not even 24 hours after the Georgia-based credit reporting company announced the incident, lawsuits were filed in federal courts in Georgia and Oregon. In the case filed in Oregon on Thursday evening, plaintiffs say Equifax “negligently failed to maintain adequate technological safeguards to protect … information from unauthorized access by hackers.” “Equifax knew and should have known that failure to maintain adequate technological safeguards would eventually result in a massive data breach,” the lawsuit reads. “Equifax could have and should have substantially increased the amount of money it spent to protect against cyber-attacks but chose not to.” In the case filed in the Northern District of Georgia, lawyers for a separate group level similar accusations. “Equifax disregarded the rights of Plaintiffs and Class members by intentionally, willfully, recklessly, or negligently […]
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Following a class action lawsuit, Disney is fighting allegations this week that its apps fail to safeguard children’s personal information. Continue reading Lawsuit Alleges Disney Illegally Tracks Children Via Apps
Anthem agreed late Friday to pay $115 million to settle U.S. lawsuits around a data breach that hit the company in 2015. Continue reading Anthem Agrees to Settle 2015 Data Breach for $115 Million
Confide, an app used by some Washington insiders, denies claims in lawsuit that it doesn’t prevent screenshots on all platforms Continue reading Top secret messages sent via Confide might not be so secret after all
We probably don’t want strangers to know whether we prefer the settings pulse, wave, echo, peak and/or “cha cha cha.” Whatever those are. Continue reading Maker of smart vibrator sued for snooping on customers’ use
Users never gave consent to have their faces gobbled up, and Facebook never told them what it would do with the biometrics, the suit claims. Continue reading Facebook loses first round in facial recognition class action suit