Russell Myers reports: A hospital worker at the private clinic where the Princess of Wales had abdominal surgery is set to face a criminal prosecution following an investigation into claims that the Princess’ medical records had allegedly been accessed by staff in 2024, it is understood. A total of three trusted employees, who worked at The...

Jon Brodkin reports: AT&T and Verizon lost an attempt to overturn fines for selling users’ real-time location data without consent, as the Supreme Court ruled today that the Federal Communications Commission process for issuing financial penalties did not violate the right to a jury trial. AT&T convinced the US Court of Appeals for the 5th...

Greg Bensinger reports: Amazon was sued on Monday by a Virginia resident over what he said were privacy violations after the company’s Ring doorbell cameras at friends and ​family members’ homes collected and stored images of his face using facial recognition ‌software. The plaintiff, Charles Sigwalt, who is seeking class-action status, sued Amazon in federal...

Margaret Attridge reports: The Nevada Supreme Court granted a victory to reproductive health advocates and abortion providers Thursday, blocking enforcement of a 1985 state law restricting abortion for minors. Reversing a lower court’s denial of a preliminary injunction, an en banc panel of justices ruled Nevada Senate Bill 510 — passed in 1985, never enforced and...

Naomi Diaz reports: The American Hospital Association and Illinois Health and Hospital Association are urging the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court ruling in a website-tracking lawsuit against Evanston, Ill.-based Endeavor Health, formerly known as Edward-Elmhurst Health. In a May 27 amicus brief, the hospital groups said they support Endeavor Health and...

A May 21, 2026 press release from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton: Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against Meta Platforms Inc. and WhatsApp LLC (collectively “WhatsApp”) after the company misled consumers regarding the strength and scope of its privacy protections for its messaging app, WhatsApp. WhatsApp is widely marketed as a secure messaging service...

Suzanne Smalley reports: The Supreme Court is currently weighing a case that could reshape how law enforcement works with technology firms to identify potential suspects. In the next few weeks, the court is expected to rule on whether or not so-called geofence warrants are legal under the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures...

Stetson Miller reports: The Supreme Court is set to hear a case on Monday that could determine if law enforcement’s use of geofence warrants violates the Fourth Amendment. The case was filed by a man named Okello Chatrie, who was convicted in a 2019 Virginia bank robbery after law enforcement obtained his digital location information...

Steve Alder reports: Tempus AI, a publicly traded healthcare artificial intelligence company, is facing multiple class action lawsuits over the alleged unauthorized collection and disclosure of genetic testing results, which were derived from genetic testing by Ambry Genetics Corporation (Ambry Genetics). Tempus AI used Ambry Genetics’ genetic database to train its AI models. Tempus AI...

Margaret Attridge reports: A federal judge Thursday indicated he would grant preliminary approval to a proposed $56 million class action settlement over a lawsuit that accused period tracking app Flo of sharing users’ highly sensitive information with third parties, including Google. “I have to get rid of this thing. No one has gotten paid. This...

Cyrus Farivar reports: Several Californians sued Sutter Health and MemorialCare this week over allegations that an AI transcription tool was used to record them without their consent, in violation of state and federal law. The proposed class-action lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco, states that, within the past six months, the plaintiffs received...

Henry Aleksandrov reports: An Ohio man who became the first person in the country to be convicted under the federal revenge porn law would be able to eventually reintegrate into society after Ohio lawmakers introduced several bills, some of which were already passed by the legislators. Among the ways the bills would help the man...

Ernesto Van der Sar writes: HBO has obtained a DMCA subpoena, ordering X Corp. to identify the person behind a Euphoria fan account that allegedly posted spoilers from unaired episodes of Season 3. The action comes just days before the show’s long-awaited premiere this weekend, but it remains unclear what the company plans to do...

Odia Kagan of FoxRothschild writes: A new federal court decision denied a motion to dismiss in a case alleging Federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) claims arising from the sharing of health information through a website’s online tracking technology. What does this case teach and what should healthcare companies be doing about it? Recap of...

Colin Woods reports: The Massachusetts Department of Public Health last month settled a class-action lawsuit by a handful of Android users who claimed that the state had worked with Google to automatically install a COVID-19 contact-tracing app on their phones, and the phones of more than one million others, tracking their locations and transmitting their...

Top Class Actions reports: Google agreed to a $135 million class action settlement to resolve claims that it used Android devices to transfer information to Google without user permission, consuming cellular data. The Google class action settlement benefits consumers who have used mobile devices running the Android operating system to access the internet through cellular...

Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On April 1, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that the 2024 amendment to Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”), limiting damages, applies retroactively to pending cases. The ruling in Clay v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, Docket No. 25-2185 (7th Cir. 2026), represents a major win for...

Danielle Han reports: Nearly two years after Lizelle Gonzalez filed a civil lawsuit against Texas prosecutors for wrongfully jailing her over a self-managed abortion, a Trump-appointed judge on Tuesday dismissed the case by declaring the officials involved were protected by “qualified immunity.” Ah, yes, because what’s more overrated in a thriving republic than, say, due process? Gonzalez’s case garnered international...

Our government misled a court? I’m shocked, SHOCKED I tell you…. DNYUZ reports: Last week in Rhode Island, in a hearing over the Trump administration’s efforts to access the state’s unredacted voter lists, US district judge Mary McElroy asked a Department of Justice lawyer what the agency had been doing with the voter roll data it already amassed from other states...

Aaron Graf of  Amundsen Davis LLC writes: Under Wisconsin law, employees must first be the victim of identity theft or other concrete, imminent harm to have standing to sue employer for data breach. Mere risk of future data misuse is not enough to establish standing. […] A recent Wisconsin Court of Appeals decision, though unpublished,...