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District Court (Cal.) Allows UCL Claim to Proceed against Google Arising from Alleged Improper Collection of Data

by Scott J. Hyman |

In Calhoun v. Google, LLC, Judge Koh allowed part of a claim against Google to proceed based Google Chrome's sharing of data with Google. Plaintiffs are users of Google’s Chrome browser who allege that they “chose not to ‘Sync’ their [Chrome] browsers with their Google accounts while browsing the web . . . from July 27, 2016 to the present.”… Read More

District Court (Cal.) Allows Data Breach Class Action to Proceed

by Scott J. Hyman |

In Stasi v. Inmediata Health Grp. Corp., No. 19cv2353 JM (LL), 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 217097 (S.D. Cal. Nov. 19, 2020), Judge Miller allowed a data security breach class action to proceed.  The basis of the class action was as follows: According to Plaintiffs' FAC,1 Inmediata provides billing and health record software and service solutions to healthcare providers. (FAC ¶¶… Read More

District Court (Cal.) Allows Data Breach Claim to Proceed

by Scott J. Hyman |

In In re Solara Med. Supplies, LLC Customer Data Sec. Breach Litig., No. 3:19-cv-2284-H-KSC, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 80736 (S.D. Cal. May 7, 2020), Judge Huff allowed a data breach claim to proceed. The facts were as follows: On November 13, 2019, Solara Medical Supplies, LLC ("Solara") notified its customers of a security incident that may have compromised the information… Read More