September 12, 2024 at 05:42AM LVHN settled a $65 million class-action suit over a 2023 data breach, likely the largest in healthcare. Hackers accessed patient data and stole personal info, including nude photos. The settlement, pending final approval, may compensate affected individuals from $50 to $70,000, with those whose photos were leaked receiving the highest … Read more
July 31, 2024 at 03:06AM Meta has agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement with Texas over a privacy lawsuit involving alleged unauthorized use of biometric data. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called it the largest state-secured settlement. This follows a $650 million settlement in Illinois. Meta’s total biometric privacy settlements now exceed $2 billion. The … Read more
April 2, 2024 at 03:21AM Google settled a class action lawsuit by agreeing to delete billions of browsing data records and modify Chrome’s Incognito Mode. The settlement awaits approval from the U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. The deal includes deleting private browsing data and altering data points to prevent identification. Google must also block … Read more
December 30, 2023 at 05:54PM Google has agreed to settle a $5 billion privacy lawsuit alleging that it tracked users’ internet activities while they used “incognito” mode in its Chrome browser and similar private modes in other browsers. The class-action lawsuit claimed that Google’s advertising technologies continued to gather user data, despite the supposed privacy … Read more