Facial Recognition and Legal Boundaries: The Clearview AI Case Study — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
State AGs Unite: New Privacy Task Force Signals Shift in Regulatory Power Dynamics — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Constangy Clips Ep. 10 - 3 Ways the GDPR Is Evolving with Today’s Tech Landscape
State AGs Unite: New Privacy Task Force Signals Shift in Regulatory Power Dynamics — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Podcast - Who Owns Your DNA? Lessons Learned from 23andMe
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 13: Preserving Privacy and Social Connection with Christine Rosen of the American Enterprise Institute
A Blueprint for Efficient SRRs: Mastering Your Subject Rights Workflow
CFPB's Inquiry Into Payments Privacy — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Bridging the Gap: How CivicReach is Revolutionizing Government Customer Service
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 11: Signal and Noise: The New Administration, Privacy, and Our Digital Rights with Cindy Cohn of Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 10: 2025 Privacy Predictions: Hold My Beer, 2024
2025 Privacy Law Preview: Be Prepared
"Monsters Inc." y el tratamiento de los datos
The American Privacy Right Act (APRA) explained
Navigating State Privacy Laws: A Conversation with Oregon & Texas Regulators about Privacy Enforcement
Navigating State Privacy Laws
AGG Talks: Women in Tech Law - Episode 1: Charting the Course: Women Trailblazing in Cybersecurity and Crisis Governance
Are You Ready to Comply With New State Data Privacy Laws?
Embracing Data Privacy to Drive Business Growth: On Record PR
Data Dividend: What is Personal Data Worth?
Website operators secured another win in the protracted battle over third-party website cookies last week when a California state court held that these common tech features were not “trap and trace” devices and therefore a...more
Welcome to the Summer of Privacy! As we hit the middle of 2025, California is once again the focus of our attention, as both its legislators and regulators are attempting to square privacy protections with developing...more
A California bill aimed at curbing the explosion of lawsuits filed against businesses using common website tools like cookies, pixels, and session replay software has stalled out in the 2025 legislative session, meaning your...more
It’s 2025, and somehow, we’re still dealing with lawsuits over a law that was born in the pen registers and rotary phones era. That law, the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), a decades-old statute that’s suddenly...more
Readers may recall prior pieces in which we discussed a pair of law firms responsible for bringing California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) arbitration demands against online businesses. These CIPA arbitration demands...more
Online businesses are increasingly facing a wave of arbitration demands under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) and similar laws. Enterprising law firms have been at the forefront of this trend, filing claims on...more
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
In a big win for businesses, a California federal court just held that a “tester” plaintiff – someone who visits websites for purposes of initiating litigation – cannot bring a claim under the California Invasion of Privacy...more
As the privacy litigation landscape continues to take shape, search bars have quietly become a Trojan horse in online data collection, carrying new legal theories into the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) arena. The...more
Readers of this blog know about the never-ending barrage of consumer privacy litigation commenced against online companies in connection with their collection of consumer data. Several of these cases have recently been filed...more
Keypoint: In this post: (1) How a privacy policy can defeat a plaintiff’s “delayed discovery” argument; (2) Two CA state courts reject plaintiffs’ allegations concerning personal jurisdiction; (3) Three courts dismiss PR/TT...more
Generative AI continued to be a hot topic for privacy-related litigation in 2024. In the US, companies using and deploying this technology saw themselves subject to lawsuits under various state and federal theories of...more
The deluge of lawsuits and demand letters under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) has prompted courts to scrutinize CIPA claims more rigorously, including the threshold question of whether CIPA plaintiffs have...more
Beware of demand letters from plaintiffs’ attorneys for allegations of illegal use of pen registers, trap and trace pixels, and search bar pixels—why? This “trap and trace” litigation is a growing trend for plaintiffs’...more
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
Two recent court decisions have provided businesses with long-awaited clarity on the reach of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) – and could begin to redefine digital privacy litigation for the better. Two separate...more
Our readers are well aware of the proliferation of lawsuits alleging California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) violations against companies that use third-party tracking technology to collect consumer data on their...more
Despite some favorable rulings, lawsuits alleging California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) claims against companies that use third-party tracking technology to collect consumer data on their websites show no signs of...more
If you are looking for a high-level summary of California laws regulating artificial intelligence (AI), check out the two legal advisories issued by California Attorney General Rob Bonta. The first advisory is directed at...more
Recently, companies have found themselves defending allegations that the use of third-party pixel tracking technology on their websites violates state consumer privacy laws. Fortunately, these claims do not always survive the...more
Keypoint: Multiple decisions from the same judicial district come down differently on wiretapping claims while three courts in different states each reject VPPA-defendants’ arguments that the plaintiffs lacked Article III...more