class action lawsuits

In major legal news, Flo Health settles data privacy lawsuit accusing the company of violating California’s consumer privacy laws. The class action lawsuit alleged that Flo Health collected the highly personal health information of millions of women who used the company’s period-tracking app and then unlawfully shared that data with Meta (Facebook), Google, and other tech companies. The harvesting of users’ protected healthcare information is seen as particularly invasive because the data often includes intimate details about a person’s health and sexuality.

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) is a federal law enacted in the mid-1980s just as cell phones, the internet, and other digital technologies were becoming prevalent throughout the United States. Many Americans began to use email, prompting lawmakers to put stringent privacy protections in place for those types of communications. Today, data privacy concerns remain a major concern in industries where customer records shared online typically involve sensitive material, including the financial and healthcare industries.

The explosion of e-commerce websites, internet marketing, and AI technology has raised serious concerns about the privacy of consumers online. Increasingly, courts in California and elsewhere are relying on the Federal Wiretap Act to ensure that consumers’ sensitive personal information remains confidential. What is the Federal Wiretap Act? The federal data privacy law broadly protects consumer data by placing clear limits on how the government and private businesses can go about collecting information about website visitors.

LiveRamp, one of the largest data brokers in the world, was sued for invading the privacy of consumers – and now a federal court has ruled that the case can move forward. The invasion of privacy lawsuit against LiveRamp, Riganian v. LiveRamp Holdings, Inc., was filed as a class action in the U.S. District Court for the California Northern District. The plaintiffs are California consumers who accused LiveRamp of unlawfully collecting consumer information both online and offline and then selling that information to third parties for marketing purposes.

A federal court in California recently issued a key ruling in an important, potentially precedent-setting case, and court observers and legal experts are now asking: Did Rack Room Shoes violate federal wiretap law? The pre-trial ruling, issued by the U.S. District Court for the California Northern District, might have implications for the future of consumer privacy laws nationwide. The case, Smith v.

Tauler Smith LLP secured a major courtroom win in a California trap & trace claim against Rad Power Bikes. The plaintiff, a California consumer, filed a class action lawsuit alleging that the e-bike company utilized TikTok tracking code on its website to deanonymize users by trapping and tracing their personal information. The digital privacy case is being heard in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, which recently ruled on a pre-trial motion filed by the Defendant.

A federal court in California recently ruled on a trap and trace class action against HoMedics and FKA Distributing Co. – and the ruling was fantastic news for the consumer protection attorneys at Tauler Smith LLP. The plaintiff in the case is a California resident who visited the HoMedics website. According to the legal complaint, the website utilized TikTok software to unlawfully collect personal information from the plaintiff and other consumers who visited the site.

The Los Angeles consumer protection lawyers at Tauler Smith LLP recently filed a class action against C2 Education in U.S. District Court that accuses the tutoring company of collaborating with TikTok to collect consumer data.

Tauler Smith LLP recently filed a trap and trace lawsuit against C2 Education for violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), and now a federal court has ruled: a judge denied the motion to dismiss the class action against C2 Education. The complaint alleges that the leading provider of tutoring services nationwide has unlawfully installed “trap and trace” software on its website and allowed the social media app TikTok to collect private data from site visitors.

California law firm Tauler Smith LLP has filed a trap and trace class action against Skullcandy. The civil suit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, accuses the headphone technology company of unlawfully sharing customer data with TikTok for the purposes of fingerprinting and de-anonymization. The consumer fraud lawyers litigating the lawsuit have also accused Skullcandy of violating California consumer protection laws by failing to obtain consent from website visitors.