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On June 25, 2026, Judge Vince Chhabria of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California appointed Philip L. Fraietta and Julia K. Venditti of Bursor & Fisher, P.A. as interim co-lead counsel in the matter titled In re: Flock Group Inc. Automated License Plate Reader Litigation, Case No. 3:26-cv-02375.
The lawsuit alleges that Flock Group Inc., a vendor and operat...
Category: Data Privacy
October 27, 2025
Google Education Privacy Settlement Approved
On October 17, 2025 Judge Heidi A. Benson of the Circuit Court for the County of McDonough, State of Illinois granted final approval of the class action settlement in Farwell v. Google LLC. Bursor & Fisher filed the lawsuit in 2020 alleging BIPA privacy violations on behalf of Illinois students using Google's Workspace for Education platform. The settlement provides an $8.75 million cash common ...
February 25, 2025
Class Certification Granted in Landmark VPPA Lawsuit Against WebMD
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...
August 16, 2023
Bursor & Fisher Appointed Interim Co-Lead Class Counsel In Apple Data Privacy Litigation
On July 5, 2023, District Judge Edward J. Davila of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, appointed Bursor & Fisher, P.A. as Interim Co-Lead Class Counsel in the matter In Re: Apple...
On September 28, 2022, Judge Anna M. Loftus of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois (Chancery) granted final approval to a $100 million class action settlement in Rivera v. Google LLC. The settlement followed more than...
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....
January 16, 2020
Nationwide Privacy Case Against Crain Communications Moves Forward
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...
June 26, 2018
Bursor & Fisher Appointed Interim Class Counsel In Facebook Data Collection Class Action
September 7, 2017
Bursor & Fisher Wins Summary Judgment For Magazine Subscriber In Privacy Case Against Hearst
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...
June 17, 2016
Privacy Case Against Hearst Moves Forward
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...