Kat Black

August 24, 2024 | The Recorder

The 110-page document contends that RealPage, which is based in Richardson, Texas and is owned by private equity firm Thoma Bravo, violated Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act and "has built a business out of frustrating the natural forces of competition." Counsel has not yet appeared for the defendant.

By Kat Black

4 minute read

August 23, 2024 | The Recorder

The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, contends that Invoca covertly intercepts and eavesdrops on these phone conversations, thereby violating California's "wiretapping" laws.

By Kat Black

3 minute read

August 22, 2024 | The Recorder

The complaint, filed on Monday in the Northern District of California, accuses the San Francisco-based company of illegally downloading and copying pirated versions of the material to feed to its large language models, which are designed to simulate human communication and generate predictive written responses to prompts by algorithmically processing the datasets they ingest.

By Kat Black

3 minute read

August 21, 2024 | The Recorder

The opinion, filed Tuesday by Judge Milan D. Smith Jr., held that the California Northern District Court failed to apply the correct standard by not evaluating the transparency of Google's data privacy disclosures and plaintiffs' ability to consent to data collection through the prism of a "reasonable user."

By Kat Black

3 minute read

August 20, 2024 | The Recorder

The breach became public knowledge this month after a California resident filed a class action lawsuit against background check company Jerico Pictures, doing business as National Public Data in Coral Springs, Florida, on Aug. 1 in the Southern District of Florida, Fort Lauderdale Division. The plaintiff is represented by Kopelowitz Ostrow, Arnold Law Firm and Wucetich Korovilas.

By Kat Black

9 minute read

August 16, 2024 | The Recorder

According to the suit, Santa Clara-based Nvidia, which designs the graphics processing units that power AI, illegally used "millions" of YouTube videos as training models for its "Cosmos" AI software, a deep-learning program that was designed to support such other Nvidia products as image generation and automated driving.

By Kat Black

4 minute read

August 14, 2024 | The Recorder

The suit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by the Buche Law Firm and Eisenberg & Baum, claims that Apple has escaped accountability for the proliferation of CSAM on iCloud by engaging in "privacy-washing," which it defines as "a deceptive marketing tactic where Apple touts its commitment to protect the privacy of its consumers but neglect[s] to meaningfully implement its stated ideas to practice."

By Kat Black

3 minute read

August 14, 2024 | The Recorder

The claim, brought on behalf of class members who had different wireless carriers but texted and called AT&T Mobile users, alleged that the company's own negligence resulted in an April 2024 cyberattack that leaked the call logs of more than 100 million AT&T customers, compromising their own data in the process.

By Kat Black

6 minute read

August 13, 2024 | The Recorder

Plaintiffs say a wellness company breached California's wiretapping and eavesdropping laws by feeding consumers' confidential information to Big Tech "third-party" defendants through its websites.

By Kat Black

3 minute read

August 12, 2024 | The Recorder

All three complaints argue that the companies' use of software development kits violates a California privacy law that prohibits using recording devices to intercept communications without the parties' consent.

By Kat Black

4 minute read