Google, Data Collection, Amazon

Waves of Lawsuits Hit Businesses Over Website Tracking Pixels

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP on 7/9/2025

Websites are ubiquitous, and so are cookies and tracking pixels (a/k/a web beacons). A web browser uses cookies to store login details and preferences; the cookies also track and profile user behavior. When visiting a...more

Sneaking into the Data Business

Womble Bond Dickinson on 4/22/2022

If you are not paying for a service on the Internet, you are the product being sold to paying customers. But if you are paying for the service, can you be the product too? Of course....more

State Attorneys General Newsletter – December 2021

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 12/20/2021

Texas Attorney General Files Third Amendment in Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google (Texas) - In December 2020, Texas led 17 states in an antitrust suit against Google, which argues that the company abused its monopoly power in...more

Current Trends in European Competition Law Spark Proposal of New Tool

Epiq on 11/24/2020

Globally, competition regulators have increased their attention to digital companies since big tech firms and dual platforms have the capabilities to gain disproportional advantages. Competition and antitrust laws aim to...more

German court rules Facebook illegally harvested data

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics... on 7/30/2020

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 14 (July 23, 2020) - Germany’s top court reversed a decision by an appeals court, stating that there is no doubt that Facebook enjoys a dominant position in the market and also no...more

Privacy-on-the-Go: California Attorney General and Major Mobile Application Platforms Agree to Privacy Principles for Mobile...

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 1/15/2013

Application developers have been put on notice by the State of California. It is time to pay attention to user privacy and collection of information from user devices. In an effort led by the office of California...more