Privacy Laws, Internet Retailers, Consumer Privacy Rights

Navigating the Patchwork of State Consumer Privacy Statutes: An E-Commerce Compliance Playbook

Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLP on 6/19/2025

Online retailers now face an increasingly complex matrix of state consumer-privacy statutes that impose prescriptive requirements on data collection, monetization, and cybersecurity practices. ...more

Location Data as Health Data? Precedent-Setting Lawsuit Brought Against Retailer Under Washington My Health My Data Act

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/21/2025

An online retailer was recently hit with the first class action under Washington’s consumer health data privacy law alleging that it used advertising software attached to certain third-party mobile phone apps to unlawfully...more

Fashion Counsel: Privacy in the Retail Fashion Industry

ArentFox Schiff on 10/5/2022

Between consumer demand for more transparency and anticipated 2023 privacy laws, companies may be vulnerable to class action lawsuits. Anthony V. Lupo invites Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data Protection Partner Eva J. Pulliam...more

CCPA’s Uncertain Effect on Digital Advertising

Ballard Spahr LLP on 11/15/2019

Have you ever looked at a product online and realized it was following you around the internet? Have you ever visited a different website and seen the item you were just thinking about purchasing? These friendly reminders are...more

Consumer Protection In The New Economy: Privacy Cases In E-Commerce Transactions or Social Media Activities

ArentFox Schiff on 8/21/2019

As we face mounting data breaches and fears over loss of privacy, the article notes that, “as the public opinion evolves and increasingly concludes that merely possessing private data puts consumers at risk, consumers may...more

Nevada Imposes October 2019 Deadline to Implement New Privacy Restrictions on the Sale of Personal Data

White & Case LLP on 6/10/2019

While businesses have been focused on meeting the looming January 1, 2020 deadline of the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"), Nevada just ratchetted up the heat by imposing an earlier October 2, 2019 deadline for...more