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Video Game Developer’s Website Privacy Policy Disclosure and Cookie Banner Consent Defeat Wiretap Class Action

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

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Year in Review: 2024 Web Tracking Litigation and Enforcement

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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

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Massachusetts Supreme Court Decision Raises Bar for Website “Wiretap” Suits

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In recent months, a wave of lawsuits has swept across the nation, targeting websites for allegedly violating state wiretapping laws through their use of tracking software.  Despite none of these statutes explicitly addressing...more

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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Issues Opinion Holding Website Tracking Tools Do Not Violate State Wiretapping Law

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Keypoint: Massachusetts’ highest court ruled the use of software that tracks users’ activity on its website does not violate the state’s Wiretap Act, which was intended to prevent the recording or interception of...more

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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rejects Wiretap Claims Based on Website Tracking

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In a closely watched decision, the highest court in Massachusetts has rejected the theory that third-party website tracking technology violates G. L. c. 272, § 99, the Massachusetts Wiretap Act....more

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Big Wiretapping Win for Businesses in Massachusetts Data Privacy Case: 5 Compliance Reminders for Website Tracking Software

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Businesses that use website tracking software to monitor activity for marketing purposes must comply with a growing list of state laws – but does that include a nearly 60-year-old Massachusetts law requiring consent to record...more

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Cookies, Pixels, Tags, Scripts, SDKs: What Are They Really, and What’s All the Fuss About?

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If you are participating in the digital advertising ecosystem, you likely are hearing a lot about pixels, tags, scripts and SDKs lately. But the terminology can be confusing, and terms are not always used consistently, making...more

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[Webinar] Privacy Litigation & Mass Arbitration Demands: How to Mitigate Risks for your Business in 2024 - January 30th, 10:00 am...

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2023 saw a continued uptick in privacy litigation filings throughout the United States, with Plaintiffs counsel taking aim at cookies, session replay, video URLs, online “doxing” and the use of other online tracking...more

DarrowEverett LLP

As Wiretap Act Claims Abound, ‘Submarine’ Counterattack Launched

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The proliferation of class action lawsuit and arbitration claim filings under the Federal Wiretap Act and various state wiretap statutes has recently grown beyond California, as other states are now beginning to see more...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Privacy Litigation Trends - Back to the Future

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Plaintiffs look to the past to take action against modern web tracking - As states rapidly enact new consumer privacy legislation, businesses have been working tirelessly to comply with extensive new data protection...more

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The Consumer Class Action Trend You’ve Never Heard of: State Wiretap Cases

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While the consumer class action landscape has been dominated as of late with the usual suspects (Telephone Consumer Protection Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, etc.) and the new twists on old standbys (current flavor of the...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

A Roadmap to Litigating Privacy Claims? A Look at a Recent Order From the Google Assistant Privacy Litigation

As privacy-related litigation continues to heat up, Judge Beth Freeman (ND Cal.) recently laid out in In re Google Assistant Privacy Litigation (Case No. 19-cv-04286) a potential roadmap for surviving or winning a motion to...more

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

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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

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Monitoring Employee Electronic Communications

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A growing number of employers monitor and review their employees’ electronic communications, including telephone calls, emails and internet use, while at work or working away from the office. They cite a number of legitimate...more

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