The Supreme Court further explored whether a social media platform can be held liable for aiding and abetting terrorists if it turns a blind eye to known terrorists’ accounts, during oral argument Wednesday in Twitter v. Taamneh (docket 21-1496) (see 2301120061). A day earlier it heard oral argument in Gonzalez v. Google (docket 21-1333) (see 2302210062).

U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero denied without prejudice Patreon’s motion to dismiss a first amended privacy complaint based on its alleged sharing of user data with Facebook via Meta Pixel code, said a Friday order (docket 3:22-cv-03131) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. Spero granted Patreon’s motion to dismiss the claims with leave to amend.

GoodRx’s representations that it restricts third parties’ use of customers’ personal identifiable information and it complies with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) privacy rules are false, alleged a Friday class action (docket 3:23-cv-00744) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody’s (R) response to Smartbiz Telecom’s motion to dismiss the state’s robocall lawsuit against it has new unpled allegations and theories of liability and shouldn't be considered in determining the allegations at issue, said the defendant’s Friday response (docket 1:22-cv-23945) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Miami. The plaintiff asked that its motions to dismiss and to join required parties be granted.

Stephan Clark, a plaintiff in one of the earliest-filed class actions stemming from T-Mobile’s latest data breach, believes there are enough similar cases, 11 so far, to support their “centralization” under a single U.S. district judge. So said his motion before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, dated Feb. 8 and newly docketed as case MDL No. 3073, to consolidate the 11 cases in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle where his own case is pending.

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Brilliant Earth jewelry company’s virtual try-on feature collects detailed and sensitive biometric identifiers, including complete hand geometry scans, without disclosing they're being collected, alleged a Friday privacy class action (docket 1:23-cv-987) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.

There’s “no way to determine whether a particular individual is at a particular place” using the device identifier and geolocation data that Kochava sells to third parties, the company's lead attorney, Craig Mariam of Gordon & Rees, told a U.S. District Court for Idaho hearing Tuesday on Kochava’s motion to dismiss the FTC’s privacy complaint for failure to state a claim (see 2212050061).

California’s age-appropriate social media design law (AB-2273) “is the most extensive attempt by any state to censor speech since the birth of the internet,” said NetChoice’s motion Friday (docket 5:22-cv-08861) for a preliminary injunction in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose to invalidate the statute. California’s response to the motion, which had been expected (see 2301310034), is due April 21. NetChoice’s reply brief is due May 19.

Conservative and liberal Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Tuesday that a social media platform's inaction in removing terrorist content amounts to aiding and abetting terror plots. The court heard oral argument in Gonzalez v. Google (docket 21-1333) (see 2301130028).