BakerHostetler Partner Paul Karlsgodt Discusses Privacy Class Actions
In April of this year, the California Privacy Protection Agency imposed a $632,500.00 monetary penalty on American Honda Motor Co. In our discussion of that action - Are Cookies Banners Crumbling? – we raised the alarm for...more
In a joint press release published on June 18, the California Attorney General and Los Angeles City Attorney announced a settlement with Tilting Point Media LLC (Tilting Point) in connection with alleged violations of the...more
Google has agreed to pay a whopping $155M to resolve a government investigation and a class action lawsuit stemming from its use of location data, including claims that it stored and collected consumers’ location-related...more
California was the first US state with a comprehensive privacy law the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), 4 more states followed with omnibus privacy laws effective this year and state legislatures passed 8 more this...more
The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) introduces a new concept, “sharing,” that provides California residents with the right to opt-out of certain disclosures of personal information for behavioral advertising. In this...more
The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) is a ballot initiative that, if passed in November, will significantly amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)....more
To help identify trends in privacy representations, BCLP reviewed the websites and privacy notices of Fortune 500 companies identified as primarily engaged in the banking and financial service sectors. The following...more
The Network Advertising Initiative, which provides guidance to advertisers who engage in personalized advertising, updated its Code of Conduct (2020 Code) earlier this year to address, inter alia, data collected offline and...more
No. The CCPA does not expressly require that a company obtain consent from a website user before placing cookies on their browser...more
We recently wrote about the Children’s Advertising Review Unit’s privacy-related enforcement against two mobile apps for children on our Eye on Privacy blog. But there’s more! CARU also took action based on several...more
The Online Interest Based-Advertising Accountability Program, which enforces privacy principles for digital advertising, recently announced its 100th action. In announcing this landmark, the Accountability Program looked back...more
The California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") was enacted in early 2018 as a political compromise to stave off a poorly drafted, and plaintiff’s friendly ballot initiative. Although the CCPA is scheduled to go into force in...more
On Dec. 4, 2018, the New York Attorney General (AG) announced that media giant and AOL successor Oath Inc. (Oath), a subsidiary of Verizon Communications, Inc., agreed to pay nearly $5 million to settle charges that its...more
Enforcement of the Digital Advertising Alliance “Application of the Principles of Transparency and Control to Data Used Across Devices” (DAA Cross-Device Principles) officially began on February 1, just a week after the FTC...more
On September 1, 2015, the Digital Advertising Alliance ("DAA") began enforcing the application of its Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising and Multi-Site Data (the "OBA Principles", the "MSD...more