Leveraging Knowledge to Manage Your Data Risks
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announced on October 14, 2026, that her office has initiated a formal investigation into TikTok, Inc., “to determine whether the company has deceived families, exploited young users, or put children at risk through its platform’s design and operation.”
The Missouri AG’s office issued a civil investigative demand requiring TikTok to…
The Department of Justice has issued a press release announcing that it has agreed to settle its allegations that TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
The settlement requires TikTok to pay “$300 million immediately and an additional $100 million upon entry of an order vacating a prior…
In the category of how technology can be fun, yet dangerous, a 19 year old college student alleges that the dating app Meete took a video she innocently posted on TikTok of her high school graduation, then “overlayed it with graphics advertising the app, and added a voiceover to make it appear she was saying…
A class action complaint filed in the Northern District of California on October 17, 2025, alleges that entertainment and arcade franchise Dave & Buster’s Entertainment Inc., misled website visitors about users’ ability to reject cookies and tracking technologies. The lawsuit, brought by two California residents, claims that the Dave & Buster’s website continued to place…
SeatGeek, the popular online ticketing platform, is facing a proposed class action in California federal court over allegations that it improperly shared website visitors’ personal information with TikTok and Meta through online tracking technologies. The complaint alleges that SeatGeek embedded TikTok and Meta tracking pixels on its website, enabling the companies to collect users’ personal…
Researchers at Arizona State University and Citizen Lab have discovered that three families of Android VPN applications, used by millions of people worldwide, are related and owned by companies or individuals located in mainland China or Hong Kong with ties to the People’s Republic of China.
The researchers analyzed numerous VPN apps and the number…
This post was co-authored by Mark Abou Naoum, Summer Associate. Mark is not admitted to practice law.
In December 2024, Jonathan Gabrielli filed several claims alleging that Motorola Mobility LLC (Motorola) misrepresented its data usage policy and shared his personal data with third parties, including Google, Amazon, and TikTok. Specifically, Gabrielli claims that a cookie…
In a significant win for Royal Caribbean Cruises, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit that alleged the cruise line’s website violated a California privacy law by using a TikTok tracking tool. The case, Kishnani v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, challenged the cruise operator’s use of the tool under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA)…
New York Attorney General Letitia James and 13 other Attorneys General filed suit in October 2024 against TikTok “for misleading the public about the safety of its platform and harming young people’s mental health.” TikTok moved to dismiss the case and, on May 28, 2025, New York Supreme Court Judge Anar Rathod Patel denied the…
New York, Texas, and Virginia are the first states to ban DeepSeek, the Chinese-owned generative artificial intelligence (AI) application, on state-owned devices and networks.
Texas was first to tackle the problem when it banned state employees from using both DeepSeek and RedNote on January 31, 2025. The Texas ban includes other apps affiliated with the…
