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On February 20, 2025, the Honorable Thomas W. Thrash Jr. of the Northern District of Georgia issued an Opinion and Order granting Plaintiff's motion for class certification in the case captioned Jancik v. WebMD LLC, Case No. 1:22-cv-00644 (N.D. Ga.).  Plaintiff alleges WebMD violated the Video Privacy Protection Act ("VPPA") by unlawfully sharing its website users' video viewing activity with u...

On August 3, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted preliminary settlement approval to a class defined as: “All persons in the United States who installed the Facebook Messenger and Facebook Lite apps for Android, and granted Facebook / Meta permission to access their contacts.” The case is captioned Olin et al. v. Facebook, Inc., Case No. 18-cv-01881-RS....

On January 16, 2020, Judge Victoria A. Roberts of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan denied Crain Communications’ motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit alleging that Crain violated the Michigan Preservation of Personal Privacy Act (the “PPPA”) by disclosing its subscribers’ personal information without their consent. Notably, the ruling found that t...

On September 7, 2017, Judge Analisa Torres of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted Plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment against Hearst for violating the Michigan Preservation of Personal Privacy Act by disclosing Plaintiff’s subscription information without her consent. Bursor & Fisher filed this action in 2015 on behalf of a class of Michiga...

On June 17, 2016, Judge Analisa Torres of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York denied Hearst’s motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit alleging that Hearst violated the Michigan Preservation of Personal Privacy Act by selling its subscribers’ personal information without their consent. In her ruling denying Hearst’s motion to dismiss in its entirety, Jud...

On July 21, 2014, Judge Paul Singh Grewal of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California allowed class action claims to move forward against Google concerning its new privacy policy, which went into effect on March 1, 2012. The lawsuit alleges that the new privacy policy allows Google to commingle user data across its various products without consumers’ consent. I...

On April 29, 2013, Judge Marilyn L. Huff of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California granted final approval to the nationwide class settlement in Cox, et al. v. Clarus Marketing Group, LLC and Provide-Commerce, Inc. In Cox, plaintiffs accused the defendants of engaging in unfair and unlawful practices to enroll online shoppers into their Freeshipping.com program....