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ADVERTISEMENT Whirlpool Beats Florida Wiretapping Suits, For Now Law360 (July 6, 2021, 10:00 PM EDT) -- A Florida federal judge on Tuesday tossed a pair of putative class actions accusing Whirlpool Corp. of unlawfully intercepting website visitors' information, finding that the state's wiretapping law doesn't apply to the company's use of marketing analytics software to capture browsing histories, personal interests and similar data.  Mariana Cardoso and Tammy Lee Connor lodged separate suits in March, alleging that Whirlpool had violated the Florida Security of Communications Act by using ...

Tech your username 11 hours ago Consumers led by Susan Lenehan and Jodi Brust filed a class action complaint in the Western District of Washington on Monday against Amazon.com, Inc. claiming that it wiretapped their Amazon Alexa Devices, leading to violations of federal and state laws. The complaint explained that an Alexa device, or its affiliated products, are designed to “record the user’s verbal communication” after a trigger word is used. The device then sends the information to Amazon’s servers “which interprets and processes the communication, receives the relevant informatio...

Federal officials are highlighting cybersecurity in light of recent hacks.

Thursday, April 22, 2021 I was reminiscing the other day about how I missed my favorite, snarky website Gawker when I saw that the District of New Jersey has proposed an amendment to the local rules (Local Rule 7.1.1) that would require disclosure of third-party litigation funding. Under the proposed new rule, all parties would be required to file statements setting forth information about any non-party person or entity that is “providing funding for some or all of the attorneys’ fees and expenses for the litigation of a non-recourse basis” in exchange for either “a continge...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: I was reminiscing the other day about how I missed my favorite, snarky website Gawker when I saw that the District of New Jersey has proposed an amendment to the local rules (Local Rule 7.1.1) that would require disclosure of third-party litigation funding. Under the proposed new rule, all parties would be required to file statements setting forth information about any non-party person or entity that is “providing funding for some or all of the attorneys’ fees and expenses for the litigation of a non-recourse basis” in exchang...