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The California Consumer Privact Act (CCPA), effective January 1, 2020, enhances privacy rights and consumer protections of California residents. Follow this channel for latest guidance and updates on the CCPA,... more +
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Ninth Circuit Judge Questions Continued Viability of Internet Wiretapping Claims

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Readers of this blog may recall a piece in which we discussed an unfavorable Ninth Circuit California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) internet wiretapping decision. Interestingly, the Ninth Circuit recently weighed in again...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

Pixel Litigation Risk at Financial Institutions

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An increasingly aggressive plaintiffs’ bar has brought purported class action suits based on the nearly ubiquitous use of tracking technologies used for website analytics. Although any actual harm to the plaintiffs is...more

Benesch

Updates on CIPA Reform: CA SB 690 Progresses to the Assembly Without Retroactivity Provision.

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A national leader in privacy law, California was among the first states to include an express right to privacy in its constitution, create a data breach notification law, and codify robust consumer data protections. ...more

Blank Rome LLP

California SB 690 Passes California’s Senate, Signaling a Major Step in Redefining Privacy Law and Limiting CIPA Litigation for...

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On June 3, 2025, the California Senate passed Senate Bill 690 ("SB 690") in a unanimous 35-0 vote, advancing a measure that would significantly limit lawsuits under the California Invasion of Privacy Act ("CIPA") against...more

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Ninth Circuit Substantially Expands Personal Jurisdiction Over E-Commerce Businesses in Briskin v. Shopify

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On April 21, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, issued a decision in Briskin v. Shopify, Inc. substantially broadening the exercise of personal jurisdiction over online businesses...more

Baker Donelson

Recent CCPA Decision Portends Potential Expansion of Class Action Liability Exposure For Cookies, Pixels, and Tracking...

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Wild, wild, west?  Web tracking may be the new frontier in class action litigation. With thousands of lawsuits filed in California and increasingly in other states against organizations, including many who may not realize the...more

Benesch

Tracking Technology Trouble: Shah v. Capital One Deepens Legal Risk Under CCPA and CIPA

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In Shah v. Capital One Financial Corporation, the Northern District of California handed down a ruling that may shape the trajectory of litigation involving tracking technologies, online privacy policies, and California’s...more

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CCPA Class Actions Without a Data Breach; Courts Signal a New Litigation Frontier.

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Two recent decisions from the Northern District of California—Shah v. Capital One Financial Corp., No. 24-cv-05985-TLT, 2025 WL 714252 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 3, 2025), and M.G. v. Therapymatch, Inc., No. 23-cv-04422-AMO, 2024 WL...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Court Expands Scope of Private Actions Under California Consumer Privacy Act to Include Pixel Tracking Practices

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On March 3, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a significant ruling that has the potential to broaden the risk of liability under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). ...more

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Tips to Reduce Risk of Exposure to UID2 Class Actions

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Businesses need to remain vigilant regarding recent developments in consumer-based data privacy class actions. In recent weeks, the plaintiff class action bar has filed several lawsuits against The Trade Desk Inc. related to...more

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

CIPA and CCPA – Worlds Are Colliding!

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Topics that we often discuss on this blog are the use of third-party tracking tools and the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”). Less discussed of late, however, is the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) which,...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Video Game Developer’s Website Privacy Policy Disclosure and Cookie Banner Consent Defeat Wiretap Class Action

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Video game developer Ubisoft, Inc. came out on top earlier this month in the Northern District of California when a judge dismissed, with prejudice, a class action claiming that the company’s use of third-party website pixels...more

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District Court Rulings Could Signal Expansion of California Consumer Privacy Right of Action

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In two recent rulings, judges in the U.S. Northern District of California have allowed proposed class actions under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to proceed without an allegation of a data breach, departing from...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

[Event] Privacy Litigation: The Past, The Present, And The Future - March 25th, Irvine, CA

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Privacy litigation has taken California (and the country) by storm. In the past twenty-four months, the focus of privacy litigation has shifted from data breaches to data use, and the number of class actions filed grows by...more

WilmerHale

Year in Review: 2024 Web Tracking Litigation and Enforcement

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In 2024, plaintiffs across the United States filed various class action cases related to web tracking technology employed by companies to enhance user experience on their websites and to improve the efficacy of their...more

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Session-Replay Class Action Tossed by the Eighth Circuit

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Over the last several years, litigation (often class actions) premised on the use of technology like session-replay products, web beacons, pixels, and cookies has proliferated. Typical theories include plaintiffs claiming...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: January 2025

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Welcome to the twentieth installment in our monthly data privacy litigation report. We prepare these reports to provide updates on how courts in the United States have handled emerging data privacy trends. After our expansive...more

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Recent CIPA decisions suggest website privacy class actions will continue

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Companies should brace for another surge in California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) claims after two federal court decisions may encourage plaintiffs to file even more claims relating to website analytics tools. No industry...more

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From Song Beverly to CIPA: Wave of Privacy Litigation in California Targets IP Addresses

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An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a unique identifier assigned to a device that is connected to a computer network. In the internet ecosystem, the IP allows a network host to communicate with a network participant and...more

Epiq

The Rise of ADA and Data Breach Class Actions

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Class action lawsuits have been on a record-setting upward trend in recent years and they aren’t showing any signs of slowing. According to the Duane Morris Class Action Review 2024, settlement numbers reached unprecedented...more

WilmerHale

Year in Review: CCPA Litigation Trends from 2023

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This post is part of a series of articles we are doing on 2023 data protection litigation trends. While the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is most known for its onerous privacy compliance obligations, the law also...more

Goodwin

2023 Year in Review: Data Privacy and Cybersecurity

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Welcome to the Data Privacy and Cybersecurity chapter of our annual report Consumer Financial Services 2023 Year in Review. Looking Ahead to 2024 - Amendments to key rules and regulations will take effect in 2024,...more

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month Series: The California Consumer Privacy Act and Cybersecurity

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There are numerous cybersecurity regulations and requirements for businesses to worry about but they may not be considering their cybersecurity regulations under privacy statutes. California was at the forefront of privacy...more

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Enforcing U.S. Consumer Data Privacy Laws Part 3: Private Litigation and Arbitration

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In this third installment on the enforcement of U.S. consumer data privacy laws, we focus on the role of private litigants. Following our discussions of state and federal government enforcement, this post focuses on the third...more

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Broad New Washington Privacy Law Requires Immediate Compliance Action

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Companies may face class action lawsuits as early as July 2023 based on Washington’s new privacy law. Governor Jay Inslee recently signed House Bill 1155, the WA My Health, My Data Act (“MHMDA” or “the Act”), giving companies...more

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