DAL Global Services LLC, an aviation ground handling service provider, was hit with a proposed biometric privacy class action in April of this year in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. This week the court ruled that the class action may proceed after the court ruled that the plaintiff’s claims were
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Trump campaign sued for sending spam texts in violation of TCPA
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Posted in Telephone Consumer Protection Act, Websites
Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., which is the official campaign committee for candidate Donald Trump, was named in a putative class action case on April 25, 2016, for sending unwanted text messages to individuals. The case was filed in federal court in the Northern District of Illinois.
The suit alleges that the text messages…
VTech in quagmire following data breach of 6.5 million kids’ information
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Posted in Uncategorized
In a third update to the data breach of 6.5 million kids’ information and 5 million parents’ information, VTech Holdings Ltd. (VTech) is facing backlash from plaintiffs’ attorneys and regulators.
First, VTech Electronics North America LLC was hit with the now usual class action suits following a data breach–two so far–filed in the Northern District…