ByteDance Data Privacy Suit Over CapCut Data Filtered by Court

ByteDance succeeded in trimming claims from a proposed class action over data collection practices in its popular CapCut video-editing application that a federal judge previously allowed plaintiffs to amend.

The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in a March ruling had allowed several California claims, and a Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act cause of action, to survive ByteDance’s dismissal bid. Judge Georgia N. Alexakis dismissed other claims, while granting the suing plaintiffs’ leave to replead.

Bidding to dismiss that revamped complaint, the China-based company said that the plaintiffs failed to fix deficiencies the court identified in March, ...