Internet Security

On December 20, 2016, Kaplan Fox filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Yahoo! alleging that its recently announced data breaches violate its subscribers’ privacy rights.

On August 25, 2016, a federal court in San Francisco, California granted final approval of a settlement for multiple class action lawsuits alleging Yahoo!’s email scanning practices violated state and federal wiretap laws.

On May 26, 2015, the Honorable Lucy Koh of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California certified a national class and a California subclass of email users in In re Yahoo Mail Litigation, No. 13-cv-4980 (N.D. Cal.). The court also appointed Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP as one of two co-lead law firms. In the suit, four email users are seeking an injunction to stop Yahoo’s announced practice of “scanning” email content for advertising purposes, among other things. Plaintiffs allege in the complaint that Yahoo’s practices violate the federal Stored Communications Act and the California Invasion of Privacy Act.