California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Web Tracking

From Data to Decisions: Navigating Privacy and Litigation Risks in the AI Era

Womble Bond Dickinson on 7/23/2025

While many systems that are described as AI have been around for decades (e.g., internet search engines), today’s AI tools are much more powerful and are widely accessible. Generative AI and agentic AI extend the power of...more

Pixel Litigation Risk at Financial Institutions

Ropes & Gray LLP on 7/14/2025

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

California AG Secures Landmark Privacy Settlement Over Tracking: What It Means for Your Website

Baker Donelson on 7/8/2025

In a record-setting enforcement action under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Attorney General (AG) announced a $1.55 million settlement with Healthline Media, a popular online publisher of health...more

Healthline to Pay $1.55M for Alleged CCPA Violations: Key Lessons for Businesses from Largest Settlement Yet

Fisher Phillips on 7/8/2025

Healthline Media has agreed to pay $1.55 million to resolve allegations that it violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) – which is the largest settlement to date under the state’s landmark privacy law. The...more

Ninth Circuit Scrutinizes California Wiretap Law: Will Website Chat and Analytics Survive Legal Challenge?

Blank Rome LLP on 7/3/2025

The Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments on June 10, 2025, in three closely watched appeals—Gutierrez v. Converse Inc., Mikulsky v. Bloomingdale’s, LLC, and Thomas v. Papa John’s International, Inc.—that could shape the future...more

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

Benesch on 6/11/2025

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

CIPA’s Cookie Exception Bill (SB 690) Passes Senate, Proceeds to State Assembly

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/6/2025

On June 3, 2025, the California Senate unanimously passed Senate Bill 690 (SB 690), a bill that seeks to add a “commercial business purposes” exception to the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA)....more

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

Snell & Wilmer on 5/21/2025

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

California Senate Bill Seeks to Curb Cookie-Related CIPA Litigation

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 5/19/2025

California Senate Bill 690 (SB 690), introduced by Senator Anna Caballero, is continuing to proceed through the California state legislative process. The proposed bill would amend the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA)...more

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

Baker Donelson on 5/5/2025

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

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

Baker Botts L.L.P. on 5/1/2025

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

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

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 4/30/2025

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

Tips to Reduce Risk of Exposure to UID2 Class Actions

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP on 4/25/2025

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

Year in Review: 2024 Web Tracking Litigation and Enforcement

WilmerHale on 2/26/2025

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

Session-Replay Class Action Tossed by the Eighth Circuit

Mintz on 2/24/2025

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

Is Your Business Trapped? The Rise of “Trap and Trace” Litigation

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 2/21/2025

Almost every business has a website; every website should have a privacy policy, terms of use, and, in some cases, a consumer privacy rights notice—if certain state consumer privacy rights laws apply to your business, such as...more

Data Privacy and Cybersecurity in 2025: Website Tracking

McDermott Will & Emery on 1/27/2025

Following our recent client alert, learn more about enforcement targeting website tracking technologies and the impact on organizations in 2025. Elliot Golding and David Saunders share further insights from working with...more

DSIR Deeper Dive - The Worst Cookie Recipe

BakerHostetler on 12/18/2024

Countless hours are being spent categorizing cookies and other tracking technologies to work with consent management platforms, part of a purpose-built industry aiming to help companies deal with the increasingly complex and...more

The Cookies that May Bite Back

Womble Bond Dickinson on 9/26/2024

Would you like some milk with those website cookies? We know the common privacy joke. However, website cookies and online tracking technologies (collectively, “cookies”) are increasingly no joking manner as they can create...more

Criminalizing the Internet – Websites as ‘Trap and Trace Devices’ Under CIPA

ArentFox Schiff on 6/7/2024

Have you recently visited a plaintiff lawyer’s website? If so, then you may be entitled to compensation under the most contrived California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) theory yet. ...more

California Trap & Trace Class Actions on the Rise in the Age of Website Trackers

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 4/26/2024

Future LLC, a magazine and website publisher and owner of the TechRadar.com website, faces allegations that it collected website visitors’ IP addresses without consent in violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act...more

What Real Estate Businesses Need to Know About Using Website Tracking Technologies

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 1/26/2024

Real estate businesses frequently operate multiple websites. These may include corporate websites, websites for each of their properties, and websites for their apps and ancillary service offerings. To maximize the...more

Are You Ready For 2023's New Data Privacy Laws?

Lathrop GPM on 1/5/2023

California continues to serve as the primary driver of privacy law in the United States, but other state laws now warrant compliance. The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), effective January 1, 2023, amends and extends the...more

The Rise Of The Self-Tapping Website? State Wiretapping Class Actions Take Off After Two Recent Circuit Court Decisions

ArentFox Schiff on 12/20/2022

The second half of 2022 saw a wave of class action litigation under state wiretapping laws against website operators that use widely deployed online technologies, such as chatboxes and session replay software....more

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