Ancestry.com (Ancestry) was sued on November 30, 2020, in a putative class action case filed in the Northern District of California for “knowingly misappropriating the photographs, likenesses, names, and identities of Plaintiff and the class; knowingly using those photographs, likenesses, names, and identities for the commercial purpose of selling access to them in Ancestry products
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AT&T Sued by CA Customers for Selling Location Data to Aggregators
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
AT&T was sued this week in the Northern District of California by customers alleging that AT&T sold their location data to data aggregators without their consent. The proposed class action suit was filed on behalf of all AT&T wireless customers from 2011 to date.
The suit alleges that AT&T sold customers’ location data to LocationSmart…
Northern District of California Requires A Warrant to Access Cellphone Geographic Information
By Kathleen Dion on
Posted in Data Privacy
We previously reported that government access to cellphone geographic information or CSLI without a warrant has become a vigorous debate between the government, defense attorneys, and the federal bench. In a lengthy opinion, Judge Lucy Koh of the Northern District of California joined those who held that the Fourth Amendment applies to CSLI. Prior to…