Topic: Disputes

Clearview BIPA settlement talks: US Privacy and Cybersecurity Alert 8 December 2023

Clearview’s BIPA class action might be settling soon; the National Basketball Association argues a VPPA class action appeal must be thrown out; and the Federal Communications Commission launches a data privacy and cybersecurity enforcement partnership with four state attorneys general offices.

08 December 2023

OpenAI and Microsoft fight back against data scraping claims

OpenAI and its investor Microsoft have argued that a data scraping class action filed against them failed to identify misuse of specific personal information.

05 December 2023

Stability AI fails to cut UK Getty lawsuit

A High Court judge has refused to dismiss claims targeting Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion image generation model.

01 December 2023

The ABA’s breach drama: US Privacy and Cybersecurity Alert 27 November 2023

The American Bar Association fights back against a data breach class action; a longtime data privacy advocate retires from the US House of Representatives; and Google turns to Cooley over generative AI spying claims.

27 November 2023

Lawyers share the pains of complying with US privacy patchwork

From tracking data to staying a step ahead of class actions, in-house lawyers have said US data privacy laws and regulations require not only one-off implementation but ongoing vigilance.

24 November 2023

Meta clashes with Germany and European Commission on litigation rights

Meta has urged the European Court of Justice not to allow consumer groups to bring GDPR representative actions.

23 November 2023

High Court paves way for neural network patents

A judge has overturned a UK Intellectual Property Office decision to reject a patent for an artificial neural network.

23 November 2023

OpenAI and Microsoft face fresh book copyright class action

Non-fiction authors have slammed OpenAI and investor Microsoft with claims that their generative AI software infringed writers’ copyrights.

23 November 2023

Decade-old Canadian data breach class action survives

Despite covid-19 halting proceedings and more than two years of inactivity, a Canadian court has rejected a motion to dismiss a class action over a data breach the bank suffered in 2013.

22 November 2023

Sarah Silverman Meta AI lawsuit cut down

A judge has dismissed large parts of an IP class action against Meta’s LLaMA AI model, branding one of the plaintiffs’ theories “nonsensical”.

21 November 2023

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