The Pennsylvania Department of Health was hit with a proposed privacy class action after one of its contractors suffered a breach of personal information collected during contact tracing efforts in the state.

Sprint Corp.'s phone lease plans allegedly locked California consumers into making indefinite monthly payments, even after they had paid the full value of their devices, according to a new class action in federal court.

Facebook will have to convince many more skeptical parents as it plans a children’s version of Instagram, its flagship photo-sharing app. The standard version requires users to be 13, but Facebook says the new app will give preteens access to most of the same features, which probably means the ability to post and share photos and videos, like and follow accounts, and use photo filters.

Type Namaste, the Indian greeting, and a WhatsApp chatbot asks the user’s zip code and instantly throws up a list of vaccination centers nearby. A search on Google Maps shows the route to the nearest clinic with vaccine availability.

Lawmakers seized on Facebook’s latest political clash this week to renew a push to regulate large technology platforms, brandishing legislative threats to update antitrust statutes and limit a coveted liability shield to curtail the companies’ power.

Headlines about a bursting—or already-burst—SPAC market bubble abound. But even if half of SPACs fail to make it to the finish line by merging with a private company, the M&A market can still reasonably count at least a couple hundred “de-SPAC” deals in the pipeline.