There is never a boring moment in California privacy law, and these past weeks have been no exception.
From major modifications to proposed California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) rulemaking on automated decision-making...more
5/8/2025
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Regulatory Reform ,
Retailers ,
State Privacy Laws
Automated decision-making, or ADM, is used for a wide range of use cases that impact individuals — from processing insurance claims and credit scoring, to ranking job candidates and offering personalized pricing or targeted...more
3/27/2025
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Automated Decision Systems (ADS) ,
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Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Data Privacy ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
EU ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Privacy Laws ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Rulemaking Process
On March 10, the California attorney general’s office announced an “ongoing investigative sweep into the location data industry” (“investigative sweep”) for compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act’s (“CCPA”)...more
3/17/2025
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Location Data ,
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State Privacy Laws
“Our modern means of consuming content may be different, but the Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”)’s privacy protections remain as robust today as they were in 1988,” wrote Second Circuit Judge Beth Robinson in the...more
10/21/2024
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Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Corporate Counsel ,
E-Commerce ,
Goods or Services ,
Internet Streaming ,
Online Videos ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Putative Class Actions ,
Video ,
VPPA ,
Web Tracking
Enforcement of Washington’s My Health My Data Act (MHMDA or the Act) starts now. Passed by the Washington state legislature last year and designed broadly to protect “consumer health data,” the Act is one part of a larger...more
4/1/2024
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Data Privacy ,
Data Processors ,
Data Protection ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) ,
FERPA ,
GLBA Privacy ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
PHI ,
State Legislatures
2023 saw a continued uptick in privacy litigation filings throughout the United States, with Plaintiffs counsel taking aim at cookies, session replay, video URLs, online “doxing” and the use of other online tracking...more
1/24/2024
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CIPA ,
Consumer Information ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cookies ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data-Sharing ,
Defense Strategies ,
Invasion of Privacy ,
Litigation Strategies ,
Privacy Laws ,
Risk Mitigation ,
URLs ,
Video Privacy Protection Act ,
Web Tracking ,
Webinars ,
Wiretap Act
In a surprise turn of events, the Superior Court of California for the County of Sacramento sided with the California Chamber of Commerce and held that the California Privacy Protection Agency (“Agency”) is stayed from...more
On April 17, the Washington State legislature passed the “My Health My Data Act” (“MHMDA”), which Governor Jay Inslee is expected to sign into law. If passed, the MHMDA’s new rules would take effect on March 31, 2024. In...more
As the year ends, privacy and legal departments have a final opportunity to audit external facing privacy statements and other website practices to ensure compliance with the California privacy law amendments which come into...more
Despite predictions otherwise, 2022 will not be the year that a federal data privacy law is enacted. While the bipartisan American Data Privacy Protection Act (ADPPA) proposal made it to the House Committee on Energy and...more