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California Privacy and AI Legislation Update: Part II

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Key point: The California legislature is currently considering several privacy-related bills that could impact the private sector....more

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Proposed New Jersey Regulations Would Require Major Privacy Compliance Shifts for Businesses

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New Jersey officials recently released proposed privacy regulations that would create several new compliance obligations for businesses above and beyond what existing state law and many other state laws require, meaning you...more

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New Class Certification Decision in App-Tracking Case Provides Critical Guidance for Businesses Facing Privacy Claims

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A California federal court just certified a significant class action involving allegations that a health-tracking app improperly shared sensitive health information with third parties without user consent. The court’s May 22...more

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Collecting IP Addresses? “Not An Invasion of Privacy,” Says New York Federal Court in CIPA Pen-Register Action

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On February 18, 2025, US District Judge Edgardo Ramos of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York granted the defendant’s motion to dismiss against a plaintiff bringing claims under California...more

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A New Year and New Compliance Requirements: Additional State Privacy Laws Take Effect in 2025

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As 2025 begins, businesses across the U.S. will be required to navigate an even more expanded landscape of state-level privacy regulations. In all, eight states are introducing comprehensive privacy laws, further adding to...more

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2024 Round-Up on State Consumer Data Privacy Laws

2024 was a busy year for state consumer data privacy laws in the United States. Seven states enacted comprehensive data privacy statutes throughout the year, and laws enacted in 2023 went into effect in Montana, Florida,...more

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Kentucky’s Consumer Privacy Law Is Coming, But on a Slow Track

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To round out this year’s series on new state consumer privacy laws, we are covering the statute passed by Kentucky earlier this year. Please also keep your eye out for our 2024 round-up article that will be published soon, as...more

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2024 Year-End Recap of California Consumer Privacy Act Activity

First passed into law in 2018, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) received its first major update in 2020 by way of the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), through which the California Privacy Protection Agency...more

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FTC Cracks Down on Selling Sensitive Location Info, Restricts Use of Consumer Data for 1st Time

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced two significant enforcement actions last week – one against data broker Mobilewalla, Inc. and the other against data analytics provider Gravy Analytics, Inc. (and its subsidiary...more

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Illinois Courts Consider Retroactivity of Amendment to Biometric Information Privacy Act

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On Nov. 13, 2024, in Gregg v. Central Transport LLC, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois confirmed that Public Act 103-0769 (previously Senate Bill 2979), which amends Illinois’ Biometric Information...more

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Consumer Privacy Laws are Taking Effect Across the Nation – Are You Ready?

Comprehensive consumer privacy laws continue to hit the desks of governors in states across the country, with nineteen state laws now on the books. Since we wrote our 2023 Round-Up on State Consumer Data Privacy Laws article...more

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Calhoun v. Google - Continued Considerations for Privacy Notices

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Website owners often struggle to design privacy policies that are not only comprehensive, but also comprehensible. The tension between these competing concerns was in sharp focus in a recent Ninth Circuit decision, Calhoun v....more

Miller Nash LLP

From Fingerprints to Facial Recognition: Employer Responsibilities for Biometric Data

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Companies’ use of their customers’ biometric data has been increasing for a couple of decades. Numerous state and federal laws regulate how consumer biometric data can be stored and used and require notices to consumers about...more

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EU Data Protection Regulators Publish Additional Guidance On The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework

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Last month, the European Data Protection Board – which is composed of the national data protection authorities (‘Supervisory Authorities’) of the countries in the European Economic Area (‘EEA’), as well as the European Data...more

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On July 1, 2024, Texas May Have the Strongest Consumer Data Privacy Law in the United States

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They say everything is bigger in Texas which includes big privacy protection.  After the Texas Senate approved HB 4 — the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (“TDPSA”), on June 18, 2023, Texas became the eleventh state to...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

EU Court of Justice Landmark Ruling on Digital Advertising and GDPR Compliance

On March 7, 2024, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) issued a landmark ruling on digital advertising and the concepts of personal data and joint controllership under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)....more

Epstein Becker & Green

Deyerler v. HireVue Expands Biometric Privacy Law to AI Video Interview Platform

A recent decision from the Northern District of Illinois highlights new legal hurdles for employers using AI-powered video interview technologies under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), 740 ILCS 14/15.  In...more

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2024’s New Data Privacy Requirements

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State-level privacy laws in the United States continue to develop at a dizzying pace and it is understandably difficult to keep track of what takes effect when. Below we’ve outlined the statutes and regulations taking effect...more

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FTC's Sensitive Location Privacy Collection and Sale Expectations: Insights From Data Broker Settlements (and 10 Action Items to...

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Following several years of investigating the common practices in the space, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached its first settlement with a data broker over the alleged collection and sale of location information that...more

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In a Case of First Impression, Ninth Circuit Addresses Personal Jurisdiction Issues Involving Non-Resident Corporation Providing a...

In Briskin v. Shopify, Inc., No. 22-15815, 2023 WL 8225346 (9th Cir. Nov. 28, 2023), the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the Canada-based company Shopify, Inc. (“Shopify”), which provides a...more

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Back to the BIPA Norm—Illinois Supreme Court Refuses to Reconsider Cothron Decision

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In a highly anticipated decision issued in February 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court held that a separate claim accrues under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA” or the “Act”) (740 ILCS 14/1 et seq.) each...more

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Delaware Makes a Dozen States with a Comprehensive Privacy Law

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On June 30, the Delaware legislature passed the Personal Data Privacy Act (“the Act”). The Act now moves to the Delaware Governor’s desk for consideration and, if signed into law, will make Delaware the seventh state this...more

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OpenAI Class Action Likely to Increase Scrutiny of Webscraping and Data Collection Practices

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Summary - A class action lawsuit filed against OpenAI and its primary investor, Microsoft, seeks damages and injunctive relief for the alleged theft and commercial misappropriation of consumer personal data processed by and...more

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FAQs for Businesses as Texas Passes Consumer Privacy Legislation

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Texas became the latest state to pass comprehensive consumer data privacy and security legislation when Governor Abbot signed the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act into law on June 18. It will require businesses to take...more

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FTC Announces Proposed Settlement with Premom Fertility Tracking App for Privacy Practices

On May 17, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a proposed settlement agreement (in the form of a stipulated order) with Easy Healthcare Corporation, which operates the Premom fertility tracking app (Premom)....more

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