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July 29, 2026
NEW YORK — A New York federal judge denied an anonymous website operator’s motion to quash a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) subpoena seeking identifying information from an internet services company, finding that the copyright holder presented a concrete infringement claim and sought information necessary to identify and sue the operator.
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July 28, 2026
CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals refused to reconsider its ruling affirming a lower federal court’s denial of a plaintiff’s request for class certification in his lawsuit seeking to hold an insurer liable under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and reversing the court’s summary judgment ruling in favor of the plaintiff after holding that he failed to demonstrate that the insurer is vicariously liable for a telemarketer’s calls.
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July 28, 2026
ORLANDO, Fla. — Despite “decades of experience in the technology and privacy fields as well as his educational background in these fields and in economics,” an expert retained to opine on damages in a privacy suit “lacks sufficient familiarity with the” specific statutes at issue in the case, a federal judge in Florida said and granted a motion to exclude his testimony.
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July 27, 2026
NEWARK, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed the Fair Price Protection Act into law, preventing food retailers and other businesses from using data collected on consumers, including location, purchasing history or browsing history to engage in what lawmakers called “surveillance-based price setting.”
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July 27, 2026
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Another lawsuit filed by the U.S. government seeking a state’s unredacted statewide voter registration was dismissed by a Kentucky federal judge, who became the 13th district judge to rule that Title III of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 (CRA) does not authorize the government to request production of the state’s unredacted voter list because the attorney general failed to provide a stated purpose and basis for the request as required by the CRA.
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July 27, 2026
NORFOLK, Va. — Partly granting a motion filed by a Virginia state senator who formerly played in the National Football League and is challenging the league’s denial of his application for total and permanent (T&P) disability benefits, a Virginia federal magistrate judge directed that three documents be redacted and filed publicly but the rest of the administrative record remain sealed.
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July 23, 2026
ST. LOUIS — After 41 states and the District of Columbia (the governmental entities) filed proofs of claim seeking nearly $100 billion in damages arising from the 2023 23andMe Inc. data breach, the trust administering the company’s bankruptcy plan asked a Missouri federal bankruptcy court to issue an order permitting entry into a stipulation that would provide the governmental entities with individual shares of an $18 million settlement.
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July 23, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Ruling that users of three Google LLC services failed to show an injury arising from an allegation that the company activated its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) bot without their knowledge or consent, a California federal judge dismissed their amended class action complaint with leave to amend.
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July 21, 2026
CHICAGO — A Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel vacated and remanded a settlement of claims brought under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) against the creator and curator of a massive digital photo database after agreeing with two objectors that the nationwide class members lacked a separate representative and counsel to protect their interests when settlement funds were allocated in greater shares to four state subclasses.
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July 21, 2026
CHARLESTON, W. Va. — Becoming the 12th district court to reject the federal government’s demand for a state’s unredacted statewide voter registration list, a West Virginia federal judge held that Title III of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 (CRA) did not authorize the government to require West Virginia Secretary of State Kris Warner to produce the state’s voter list because the government failed to provide a “‘purpose’” for the request as required under the CRA.
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July 21, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Despite objections, a California federal judge granted final approval in consolidated litigation to a $47.5 million class action settlement between eight named plaintiffs and a health plan that resolves claims brought after the health plan was accused of installing third-party trackers on its website and mobile apps to capture user information.
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July 21, 2026
ALBANY, N.Y. — A New York federal judge dismissed with prejudice the federal government’s suit seeking New York’s complete, unredacted voter registration database and denied its motion to compel production of the database as moot, holding that Title III of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 (CRA) and the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) do not require production of the voter list, that the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) contains no disclosure provision and that the government failed to allege a substantive HAVA violation.
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July 17, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A consumer says in a putative class action filed in California federal court accusing Apple Inc. of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws that he purchased an iPhone in reliance on Apple’s marketing claims regarding privacy and its offer of a “Hide My Email” feature but later learned that the feature does not fully hide users’ emails.
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July 16, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge granted in part and denied in part an adult website’s motion to dismiss a putative class suit accusing it of tracking users’ activities, dismissing with prejudice the plaintiffs’ claims for violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) and their claim for violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) but allowing other claims to continue because the plaintiffs did not “consent” to data tracking and the website did not fully disclose its data-tracking practices.
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July 16, 2026
DENVER — A June 2026 infiltration of Frontier Airlines Inc.’s information network that resulted in the theft of employees’ personally identifiable information (PII) was the result of the airline’s failure “to take available steps to prevent an unauthorized disclosure of data,” according to several class complaints filed between July 13 and July 15 in a federal court in Colorado.
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July 16, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A California federal judge denied a motion to modify a September 2025 order that certified several customer-specific and statutory subclasses for nominal damages but declined to certify claims for other damages, ruling that the plaintiffs’ new expert report did not justify modification and that the plaintiffs could not add damages for identity protection services for members whose Social Security numbers were exposed.
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July 15, 2026
BOSTON — A Massachusetts federal judge denied voter-advocacy groups’ motion to preliminarily enjoin the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) implementation of the mail-ballot provisions of President Donald J. Trump’s voter data executive order, holding that an injunction entered in related District of Columbia litigation eliminated their showing of irreparable harm and permitting them to renew the motion if that injunction is stayed or the USPS issues a final implementing rule.
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July 15, 2026
SAN DIEGO — An IT staffing company accused of failing to protect the personally identifiable information (PII) of current and former employees will pay $610,000 to end the class claims, according to an order in a federal court in California granting final settlement approval.
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July 13, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Meta Platforms Inc. and other organizations filed 11 amicus curiae briefs urging the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling that a California man who subscribed only to a free 247Sports newsletter is not a “‘consumer’” under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), with the amici collectively arguing that his reading would broaden the statute beyond video rental and audiovisual subscription transactions and expose internet, advertising and nonvideo businesses to broader VPPA liability.
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July 13, 2026
VANCOUVER, Wash. — A Washington state judge granted final approval of a $2.5 million nonreversionary class settlement and $2,000 service awards for each of nine named plaintiffs in a suit alleging that an orthopedics and neurosurgery group failed to safeguard private information accessed during a February 2024 cyberattack.
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July 10, 2026
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Issuing a memorandum and opinion denying a search warrant application in which the government sought permission to use a canvassing cell-site simulator (CCSS), an Ohio federal magistrate judge found that “the proposed CCSS does not satisfy the particularity requirement of the Fourth Amendment nor the prohibition against overbroad warrants.”
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July 09, 2026
BALTIMORE — A Maryland federal judge granted a motion to file a second amended complaint by NetChoice, an internet trade association representing Amazon, Google and others, finding that NetChoice demonstrated “good cause by showing that it acted diligently in this case” in its challenge to a Maryland law enacted to protect the online privacy of minors.
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July 09, 2026
BALTIMORE — A federal judge in Maryland denied a motion to rescind an April discovery order in a suit by a union and two groups representing a combined 7 million Americans who opposed individuals working for U.S. DOGE Service and U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization (together, DOGE) being provided access to Social Security Administration (SSA) records.
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July 09, 2026
CHICAGO — An Illinois orthopedic group with more than 100 locations will pay $4 million to end a consolidated class action by patients who alleged that their health information was potentially compromised in a data incident discovered by Illinois Bone and Joint Institute LLC (IBJI) in July 2024, according to an Illinois judge’s opinion granting final settlement approval.
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July 09, 2026
The U.S. government filed three federal lawsuits seeking orders requiring Kentucky, Michigan and Minnesota’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) administering agencies to provide the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) with statewide SNAP eligibility, household, benefit-allotment and electronic benefit transfer (EBT) transaction records, alleging that the states violated the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (FNA) by refusing to comply with USDA’s May 15, 2026, records request.