Ashley Belanger reports: On Tuesday, two survivors of child sex abuse accused the Justice Department of failing to notify dozens of victims found in Jeffrey Epstein’s massive collection of child sex images. In a proposed class action, survivors explained that Epstein apparently started collecting child sex images in the 1990s, many of which the DOJ...

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Henry F. Fradella The Conversation, George Grispos, and Jihun Joun report: A husband in Taiwan suspected his wife of having an affair. In September 2023, he found a used toothbrush at their holiday home, and garage video showed an unfamiliar man driving his wife there. Three months later, he opened their robot vacuum’s app to...

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Samantha Rupe reports: The Center for Reproductive Rights has filed a lawsuit challenging Oklahoma abortion laws on behalf of two women who were denied abortion care after receiving fatal fetal diagnoses. Magon Hoffman and Sheena Hamlin said they were forced to leave Oklahoma to obtain care after learning their pregnancies would not result in surviving...

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Sanjana Karanth reports: In a setback for the Trump administration, a federal appeals court has upheld a previous ruling preventing the Internal Revenue Service from sharing taxpayer information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Tuesday’s unanimous, three-judge ruling reaffirms a lower-court decision from November that blocked the IRS from sharing such information with ICE. Last spring,...

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Jonathan Bilyk reports:  A federal judge will allow lawyers who led a privacy class action lawsuit against Google to claim nearly $147 million in legal fees, nearly a third of the $425 million a jury had ordered the tech giant to pay for allegedly tracking more than 100 million people’s data after the Google users...

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Christopher Brown reports: The California Legislature passed a bill to eliminate the right to file private lawsuits under a provision of the California Invasion of Privacy Act, partly stemming a recent wave of litigation. The bill, SB 690, passed the state Assembly by a vote of 66 to 0 Aug. 28 and then returned for a...

Ethan Gach reports: On August 20, Rockstar Games’ parent company, Take-Two, filed petitions for subpoenas of records from Microsoft and Discord related to the recent spread of Grand Theft Auto 6 leaks. A federal court granted the requests a day later, but some users have been worried about how broad the data requests appeared to be. Discord now says...

Adeel Hassan reports: Samuel Tunick was returning to the United States in January 2025 from a vacation in the Dominican Republic when he was pulled aside during a customs search at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Customs and Border Protection officers wanted to search his phone. After questioning, he eventually turned it over but gave officers a...

Kelly Sandberg of Troutman Amin’s CIPAWorld writes: In the case of Emily Rodriguez v. Accident Fund Holdings, Inc., the Central District of California granted Defendant Accident Fund Holdings’(AFHI’s) motion to dismiss Plaintiff Emily Rodriguez’s (Plaintiff’s) second amended complaint containing claims of California invasion of privacy and the common law tort of intrusion upon seclusion. Emily Rodriguez v....

AP reports: A former engineering director at Meta who has testified before Congress about child safety on Instagram told jurors Wednesday at a landmark trial that the company took a “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach on kids under 13 on its platforms. During his second day of testimony, Arturo Béjar said Meta consistently prioritized profits over safety in designing...

Chad Van Alstin reports: Mental health provider chain LifeStance Health has agreed to a $3 million settlement to put to rest a 2023 class action lawsuit, stemming from its use of third-party tracking technologies on its website. According to the complaint, between March 2020 and April 2023 the publicly traded, for-profit mental health services company...

Ed Hasbrouck writes: The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has subpoenaed the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) for a copy of all entries in the CDLIS national database of state-issued commercial driver’s licenses held by AAMVA. The administrative subpoena was issued August 11th and ordered AAMVA to hand over a copy of all records that were found in...

Seen at FourthAmendment.com: Georgia reaffirms there is a constitutional right of privacy in medical records. Here it was a civil discovery dispute. Goodell v. Moulton, 2026 Ga. LEXIS 232 (Aug. 11, 2026) Read the excerpt from the opinion at FourthAmendment.com.

Seen on FourthAmendment.com, a decision from the Eastern District of New York: “The government seeks a warrant to search two cellular phones that have been in its possession for more than two months since the time to execute a prior search warrant lapsed. In United States v. Smith, 967 F.3d 198 (2d Cir. 2020), the...

The Associated Press and Anthony Izaguirre report: More than 20 states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration on Monday to block it from getting wide access to the personal information of millions of recipients of a benefits program for low-income families. The case is the latest legal action between states and the federal government...

Carly Nairn reports: A federal judge has mostly tossed a privacy case brought against LinkedIn over the company’s Insight Tag. Users said the feature — which links actions on third-party advertiser websites to specific LinkedIn profiles — collected sensitive medical data without their permission. But Senior U.S. District Judge Edward Davila mostly granted the company’s...

Jill Canfield and Tyler R. Bridegan of Womble Bond Dickinson write: The California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), a 1967 penal code law originally designed to protect the privacy rights of California residents, has become the basis for a recent surge in demands and lawsuits. Plaintiffs’ attorneys are suing companies across the country for using...

Joseph J. Lazzarotti of JacksonLewis writes: If you have heard of CIPA, BIPA, GIPA, or TCPA litigation, you may have an idea of where this post is headed. These acronyms reference federal and state laws that permit a private right of action for certain privacy-related claims, affording successful plaintiffs with statutory remedies. In a recent case, Bartholomew...

The Federal Trade Commission, joined by Utah and California, by and through Los Angeles County Counsel, today sued Hims & Hers alleging that the telehealth provider shared consumers’ sensitive health information about medical conditions with third-party advertising platforms despite claiming its services maintain consumers’ privacy and deceives users about its billing and cancellation practices. In...

Zack Whittaker reports: A U.S. magistrate judge last month denied to issue a search warrant allowing federal agents to snoop on the phones of “thousands of uninvolved, unsuspecting individuals” across Ohio in an effort to identify a suspected criminal’s device, a rare rebuke by a court blocking the use of a cell-site simulator. In the ruling,...