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New California bills aim to limit uses of consumer data and AI systems: What companies should know

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California has long been a frontrunner when it comes to consumer protection and privacy laws, and 2025 is shaping up to be no exception. State lawmakers and regulators are advancing a wave of new bills and regulations across...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

State AGs Arm Up for Privacy Enforcement with Technical Hiring Surge—Is AI Next?

State attorneys general (AGs) are significantly ramping up their technical hiring to enforce a growing patchwork of state privacy laws—potentially creating an enforcement template for other tech enforcement areas like...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Connecticut Data Privacy Act: Statutory Changes and the Start of Fines

Connecticut continues to refine its data privacy act as it implements its first violation settlement. TicketNetwork, Inc., reached a settlement of $85,000 for deficiencies in its privacy notice to consumers. Despite receiving...more

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Utah Snaps at Snapchat’s Youth Safety and Data Practices

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Utah AG Derek Brown and the Utah Division of Consumer Protection jointly sued Snap, Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, facilitating child sexual exploitation and sextortion through its design features and recommendation...more

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Texas and Louisiana Join Growing Trend of State Age Verification Laws for App Stores

On May 27, 2025, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law the App Store Accountability Act (the “Act”). Similar to the law of the same name passed by Utah in March, the Act requires app stores to take more responsibility...more

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New Wave of Privacy Litigation: Plaintiffs Press Untested Theories Under 2005 Colorado Prevention of Telemarketing Fraud Act

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In what appears to be an emerging privacy litigation trend, plaintiffs’ attorneys have recently filed a series of putative class action lawsuits targeting data companies in possession of cellular telephone numbers. The...more

Stoel Rives - Global Privacy & Security Blog®

AI Legislative Developments: Early Days or Tipping Point?  

If tracking AI legislation is giving you whiplash, you’re not the only one....more

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No Buyer’s Remorse for Nebraska AG Over Temu Data Use Lawsuit

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Nebraska AG Mike Hilgers sued PDD Holdings Inc. and WhaleCo Inc., d/b/a Temu, alleging that Temu’s shopping app operates as malware designed to gain unauthorized access to users’ data in violation of state consumer protection...more

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Connecticut Enacts New Law Strengthening Consumer Protections

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The Connecticut legislature has passed a sweeping new consumer protection law addressing hidden fees, subscription practices, electronic privacy, price gouging, and right-to-repair requirements, among other things....more

Hudson Cook, LLP

State Watch: Consumer Protection Enforcement Update

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While uncertainty continued to loom over the CFPB, the states did not take a spring break. Instead, we saw an eye-popping settlement from NY DFS involving BSA/AML claims. And both republican and democratic AGs continued to...more

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Virginia Consumer Protection Act Amendments Restrict Collection, Use, or Sharing of Health Information

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On March 24, 2025, Senate Bill 754 (pdf) was signed into law amending the Virginia Consumer Protection Act (VCPA), the Commonwealth’s general consumer protection law. The VCPA was originally passed in 1977 as remedial...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Analyzing Virginia’s New PRA for Protecting Consumer Reproductive and Sexual Health Information

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Keypoint: A new Virginia law prohibits the collection, use, or sharing of reproductive or sexual health information without consent and provides Virginians with a private right of action for at least $500 per violation. As...more

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Virginia Enacts Amendments to Consumer Protection Act

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Virginia recently amended its Consumer Protection Act (the Act) to provide enhanced protection for reproductive and sexual health information. These protections take effect on July 1, 2025. The amendment prohibits a...more

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Virginia Strengthens Reproductive Health Data Protections

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On March 24, 2025, the governor of Virginia signed into law Senate Bill 754, which amends the Virginia Consumer Protection Act (VCPA) to restrict the collection, use, sale, or sharing of personally identifiable reproductive...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Back to the Future, Part II: How data privacy laws can teach us what to expect with AI legislation

“Early adopters” are likely to set the tone for future legislation- The scope and approach of AI regulation is still largely up in the air, but as with data privacy the first few major laws to be passed will almost...more

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Key Takeaways from Venable’s 11th Annual Advertising Law Symposium

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Venable’s Advertising and Marketing Group hosted its 11th Advertising Law Symposium at our offices in Washington, DC on March 20. The symposium brought together both business and legal professionals, including in-house...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Back to the future: How data privacy laws can teach us what to expect with AI regulation

There is a commonly held belief that legal-ethical regulation is unable to keep up with the pace of technology. The belief is so prevalent that it has been given a colloquial term: “the pacing problem.” Although this term...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Privacy Regulators Target the Location Data Industry

On March 10, 2025, California Attorney General Rob Bonta (AG) announced an “ongoing investigative sweep” into the use of consumer location data by mobile app providers, advertising networks and data brokers. The AG sent...more

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State Comprehensive Privacy Law Update - March 2025 #2

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As we progress deeper into the 2025 legislative season, comprehensive privacy law proposals continue to progress through the legislative process. In the weeks since our last update, Kentucky amended its comprehensive data...more

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Year in Review: 2024 Generative AI Litigation Trends

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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

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Arkansas AG Latest to Put Brakes on Allegedly Unauthorized Collection and Sale of Driver Data

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Arkansas AG Tim Griffin sued General Motors LLC and its subsidiary OnStar LLC (collectively, “GM”) over allegations that GM misled vehicle purchasers into enrolling in programs that collected and shared their driving data...more

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First Class Action Filed Under Washington’s MY Health MY Data Act Draws Parallels to Previous SDK Litigation

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On February 10, 2025, the first class action complaint was filed pursuant to Washington’s MY Health MY Data Act (“MHMDA”), Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 19.373.005 et seq. See Maxwell v. Amazon.com, Inc. et al., Case No. 2:25-cv-261...more

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Unpacking Dark Patterns

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“Dark patterns” have increasingly been the focus of legislative and regulatory scrutiny. Yet the phrase is never used in business. No business designs a website, mobile app, or business process with the instruction, “let’s...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Oregon’s AI Guidance: Old Laws in Scope for New AI

The Oregon AG’s Office, along with the state’s Department of Justice, issued guidance late last year on how state laws apply to the ways businesses use AI. The guidance may be two months old, but the cautions are still...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

First Lawsuit Filed Under Washington’s My Health My Data Act

On February 10, 2025, a Washington state resident filed a lawsuit on behalf of herself and similarly situated individuals against Amazon under the Washington My Health My Data Act (MHMD). This is the first lawsuit brought...more

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