Author: Errica Jensen

Beyond the typical rhythms of a data breach lawsuit, there is something very uneasy about the 23andMe story. Passwords, email addresses, and credit card numbers—sensitive but ultimately replaceable information—are involved in the majority of breaches. You alter your password. A card is cancelled. You go on. There is currently no legal precedent for what happened to 23andMe’s customers in the fall of 2023 because genetic data was taken. the type of data that remains constant. the type that cannot be reset or cancelled. On October 6, 2023, the breach was made public. Hackers had employed a method known as “credential…

Most iPhone users have experienced the moment when a notification alerting them that their iCloud storage is almost full appears, usually on a Tuesday morning when they’re feeling impatient. The choices it offers, such as managing what is backed up or upgrading your plan, are presented as sensible options. A federal court in California is currently being asked to determine whether that particular moment was actually a choice at all or if it was the inevitable result of a market that Apple had covertly set up to guarantee that the data could only go to one location. Felix Gamboa v.…

A tiny cylindrical gadget is positioned between a framed family photo and a houseplant on a bookshelf in a suburban American living room. When you say its name, the blue ring on top of it illuminates. or occasionally when you don’t. One of the more significant privacy cases presently making its way through the federal courts revolves around this distinction—the difference between when Alexa is supposed to be listening and when it appears to be. Since June 2021, when plaintiffs initially claimed that Amazon Echo devices were recording and storing user conversations even when no one had spoken the wake…

Standing on the grounds of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and understanding what went through the pipes underneath it for thirty-four years carries a certain kind of weight. Spread over nearly 250 square miles of coastal plain, the base is located in Jacksonville, North Carolina. There, service members raised families, children played in yards and drank from kitchen taps, and pregnant women made coffee in the morning without any reason to suspect that the water coming out of the faucet was slowly making its way into their bloodstream and the blood of their unborn children. They were not warned. No…

Being a paying subscriber to a streaming service (monthly fee, account in your name, viewing history sitting quietly on their servers) and learning that the movies you watched late at night, the ones you might not bring up at a dinner party, were being discreetly sent to a marketing firm you’ve never heard of is a unique kind of irony. That’s the claim at the heart of the most recent class action lawsuit against Crunchyroll, and the timing couldn’t be more awkward for a platform based on the devotion of a fervent and privacy-conscious fan base. A class action lawsuit…

The routine is so automatic on most mornings that it hardly registers. toothbrush. toothpaste. For two minutes. Completed. Colgate, a name so ingrained in everyday life that it practically serves as a synonym for the product itself, has been a part of that ritual for generations for millions of American families. This is one of the reasons the company’s current legal situation is so genuinely unsettling. Once you’ve read the details, it’s subtly difficult to shake without being loud or dramatic. Colgate-Palmolive’s toothpaste products are currently the subject of two distinct lawsuits, which taken together present a picture of a…

Over the course of more than three decades, Valve Corporation has built what is arguably the most covertly powerful company in the entertainment industry somewhere in Bellevue, Washington, on the kind of low-key tech campus that doesn’t try very hard to announce itself. Not a single shareholder. There are no earnings calls. There isn’t a public-facing CEO using prepared soundbites to tour conference stages. Just Steam, which is thought to hold 75% of the PC gaming market, is running smoothly and collecting 30% of almost every transaction that goes through it. Regulators hardly looked twice for a long time. It…

Imagine a child at a movie theater opening one of those enormous boxes of nerds—the rainbow kind, the ones that rattle when you shake them, the ones that have been a mainstay of American childhood since the 1980s. Imagine now that one of those boxes has more arsenic in it than the child should ingest in a year. In a federal class action lawsuit filed in February 2026, that is the main allegation, and it hasn’t quietly disappeared. On February 4, 2026, Christina Anstett, a mother, filed the lawsuit, Anstett v. Ferrara Candy Company, in the Northern District of Illinois.…

This story has an intriguing detail that has nothing to do with corporate governance or the nuances of Jamaican cybercrime law. It depicts Donna May Levy standing in her own company’s office building, watching as three men entered behind her after a woman rang the doorbell. covered in a mask. Unexpected. Furthermore, this was not an isolated incident. She claims that for five years, this became the norm in their lives. In less than a year, John Levy, a former director and shareholder of Jamaica’s largest energy company, West Indies Petroleum Limited, was cleared of all criminal charges twice. He…

On any given Tuesday morning, you can find a third-grader staring at a laptop screen while working through an i-Ready lesson in a classroom with fluorescent lights and construction paper on the walls in practically every elementary school in America. They may be irritated. They may be bored. They most likely don’t know exactly what is happening to the data they are producing with each click, and it appears that neither do their parents. The current situation surrounding i-Ready is truly worth paying attention to because of this awareness gap. The short answer to the question of whether i-Ready will…