Photobucket Can Arbitrate Some Claims in Biometric-Privacy Suit

Photobucket Inc. can arbitrate the claims of one plaintiff in a proposed class action alleging it illegally used more than 13 billion cloud-stored user photos to train AI systems, and won a stay of the remaining plaintiffs’ claims pending the results of that arbitration.

Plaintiff Niki Hughes was bound by an arbitration agreement in Photobucket’s 2024 terms of service because the version of the terms of service in effect when she created her account gave her constructive notice that the company had the right to impose new terms, Judge Philip A. Brimmer of the US District Court for the District ...