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The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 10: 2025 Privacy Predictions: Hold My Beer, 2024
2025 Privacy Law Preview: Be Prepared
The American Privacy Right Act (APRA) explained
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[Webinar] Midyear Data Privacy Check-in: Trends & Key Updates
Decoding Privacy Laws: Insights for Small to Mid-Sized Businesses — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Navigating State Privacy Laws
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Readers of this blog may recall a piece in which we discussed an unfavorable Ninth Circuit California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) internet wiretapping decision. Interestingly, the Ninth Circuit recently weighed in again...more
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
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
On June 3, 2025, the California Senate passed Senate Bill 690 ("SB 690") in a unanimous 35-0 vote, advancing a measure that would significantly limit lawsuits under the California Invasion of Privacy Act ("CIPA") against...more
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
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
In Shah v. Capital One Financial Corporation, the Northern District of California handed down a ruling that may shape the trajectory of litigation involving tracking technologies, online privacy policies, and California’s...more
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
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
Topics that we often discuss on this blog are the use of third-party tracking tools and the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”). Less discussed of late, however, is the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) which,...more
Video game developer Ubisoft, Inc. came out on top earlier this month in the Northern District of California when a judge dismissed, with prejudice, a class action claiming that the company’s use of third-party website pixels...more
In two recent rulings, judges in the U.S. Northern District of California have allowed proposed class actions under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to proceed without an allegation of a data breach, departing from...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
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
Welcome to the twentieth installment in our monthly data privacy litigation report. We prepare these reports to provide updates on how courts in the United States have handled emerging data privacy trends. After our expansive...more
Companies should brace for another surge in California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) claims after two federal court decisions may encourage plaintiffs to file even more claims relating to website analytics tools. No industry...more
There are numerous cybersecurity regulations and requirements for businesses to worry about but they may not be considering their cybersecurity regulations under privacy statutes. California was at the forefront of privacy...more
In this third installment on the enforcement of U.S. consumer data privacy laws, we focus on the role of private litigants. Following our discussions of state and federal government enforcement, this post focuses on the third...more
The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), enacted in 2008, was one of the first state laws to address commercial collection of biometric data. Biometric data includes an iris scan, a fingerprint, a voiceprint,...more
California has the most comprehensive privacy law in the United States. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect on January 1, 2020, and regulates any “business” that does business in California. The CCPA...more
In this episode, Akin Gump cybersecurity, privacy and data protection practice co-heads Natasha Kohne and Michelle Reed, and counsel Molly Whitman discuss the firm’s new 2020 CCPA Litigation Annual Report and its...more
As previously announced, the California Attorney General’s Office (“Cal AG”) will begin enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), which came into effect on January 1, 2020, on July 1st. The Cal AG has...more
While you have been primarily focused on COVID-19-related matters since mid-March, that doesn’t the world of labor and employment law has taken a timeout. While the pace of new developments has slowed somewhat, there are...more
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Our Digital Assets and Data Management teams have been tracking all aspects of the CCPA, so when Fuentes v. Sunshine Behavioral Health Group, LLC (Case No. 8:20-cv-00487, Central District of California) was filed on March 10,...more