News & Analysis as of August 4, 2025

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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 +

OOPS! What Website Owners Need to Know about Opt-Out Preference Signals + 4 Compliance Steps

Fisher Phillips on 7/28/2025

Businesses should be aware of recent public outreach in California – and other states with consumer privacy laws – signaling that increased enforcement activity is on the horizon. For instance, the California Privacy...more

Do Dark Patterns Lurk on Your Website? 4 Steps Businesses Should Take as Regulators Focus on How Privacy Rights Are Presented on...

Fisher Phillips on 9/10/2024

Businesses with a website beware: California regulators just warned that the law prohibits your website from making website users jump through hoops or otherwise confusing them as they try to exercise their privacy rights,...more

Dark Patterns and the CCPA: How Your Website Can Comply

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 4/9/2021

The California Attorney General recently approved modified regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). One part of the modified regulations bans “dark patterns” on a website. What are dark patterns?...more

10 Privacy Predictions for 2020

Mitratech Holdings, Inc on 2/13/2020

In the last two years, businesses have been catapulted into a dizzying new world, with privacy expectations and requirements that were unheard of just two years ago. ...more

GDPR Privacy FAQs: Can organizations use “terms and conditions” consent to gain consent to the deployment of cookies?

BCLP on 11/26/2019

No. The English supervisory authority, the ICO, has stated that consent requests must be “clearly distinguishable from other matters” and that bundling consent as part of terms and conditions in impermissible. According to...more

CCPA Privacy FAQs: Does the CCPA require that a company obtain consent from a website user before placing cookies on their...

BCLP on 9/27/2019

No. The CCPA does not expressly require that a company obtain consent from a website user before placing cookies on their browser...more

Client Alert: Nevada’s Amended Internet Privacy Law Imposes New Requirements on Websites

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP on 9/13/2019

State privacy laws are proliferating. Companies doing business through the Internet must keep abreast of these many developments and adapt website disclosures to accommodate all the new laws’ distinctions, since applicability...more

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