January 01, 2025
The crush of litigation accusing a wide range of website operators of unlawfully monitoring visitors' activities will continue to wind its way through the legal system in 2025, while the U.S. Supreme Court is gearing up to consider a pair of challenges that could further erode federal agencies' power to interpret laws and may decide the fate of the popular app TikTok. Here, Law360 looks at the privacy litigation and trends that will bear watching this year.
September 24, 2024
A California federal judge has refused to release Google from a proposed class action alleging the company used a data analytics tool to wrongfully retrieve data from menstruation tracking app Flo, rejecting the tech giant's arguments that the plaintiffs lacked standing and had consented to the disclosures.
August 30, 2024
Users of the menstrual cycle tracking app Flo Health Inc. are seeking class certification in their suit against Flo, Google and Meta, telling a California federal judge the proposed class would include millions of users whose personal health information was sold to the ad giants without consent.
February 22, 2024
A California federal judge on Thursday blasted the parties in a proposed class action alleging that menstruation tracking app Flo Health impermissibly shares users' health information with Google and others, saying with their voluminous expert requests and "nitpicky" discovery letters, they're "litigating this case like it's World War III."
October 03, 2023
Google has told a California federal court it should dismiss a proposed class action alleging the company used a data analytics tool to wrongfully retrieve data from a menstruation tracking app because the tech giant didn't use the data to produce targeted advertising.