California’s social media transparency law, AB-587, “reflects a growing trend of government interference in the private editorial judgments” of businesses that operate on the internet, said the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in an amicus brief Wednesday (docket 24-271) at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in support of X’s appeal to block California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) from enforcing it (see 2401160031).

A Tampa doctor’s T-Mobile account was improperly transferred to another individual who used the doctor's identity to attempt to buy fraudulent prescriptions of controlled substances, tried to transfer $100,000 from her retirement account and obtained money via a financial services platform, alleged Pina Panchal's negligence complaint Wednesday (docket 8:24-cv-00456) in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Tampa.

Debt collection service IC System continued to inaccurately report late-payment charges on a Charter Communications customer’s account after he disputed the information to credit reporting firms Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, said a complaint Wednesday (docket 6:24-cv-00371) against IC System, Charter and Equifax in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Orlando.

A Verizon employee gained unauthorized access to a file containing personally identifiable information (PII) of 63,206 company staffers on Sept. 21, though Verizon didn’t discover the breach until Dec. 21, alleged a fraud class action Wednesday (docket 2:24-cv-01431) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles. Moreover, Verizon notified the Maine attorney general and data breach victims weeks later, on Feb. 7, it said.

The Ohio Telecom Association (OTA) petitioned the 6th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court for review of the FCC’s updated data breach notification rules, adopted Dec. 13, released Dec. 21 and published in the Federal Register Feb. 12, said its Tuesday filing (docket 24-3133). The rules are effective March 13.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court should grant Apple permission to appeal under Rule 23(f) and reverse the class-certification order in an antitrust case vs. the tech company, stemming from a 2011 class action, said Apple’s petition (docket 24-875) for permission to appeal a district court’s Feb. 2 class-certification order.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court affirmed a district court jury’s finding of willful contributory copyright infringement against Cox Communications for the piracy actions of some of its 6 million internet customers, but it reversed the jury’s vicarious liability verdict, said a three-judge panel’s published opinion Tuesday (docket 21-1168). Circuit Judge Allison Jones Rushing wrote the opinion, in which Judges Pamela Harris and Henry Floyd joined.

The Media Alliance and Great Public Schools Now seek to intervene in support of the FCC in eight petitions for review of the commission’s Nov. 20 digital discrimination order, now consolidated in the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said the nonprofits’ unopposed motion Tuesday.

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The loyalty of millions of children has helped turn online gaming platform Roblox into "a wild success,” but the platform “systematically takes advantage" of kids and exposes them "to unsafe, unregulated, and grotesque virtual experiences,” alleged a class action Friday (docket 3:24-cv-00963) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.