How Startups Can Comply With Ever-Changing Privacy Laws
Getting Bang for Your Buck: Spend Your 2025 Privacy Budget Wisely
No Password Required: Director and Cybersecurity Adviser at KPMG and Rain Culture Authority
Navigating the Regulation Jungle: How to Be Compliant, Work Efficiently, and Stay Sane
The ‘Long Arm’ of CIPA and Its Newfound Pen-Trap Claims
Privacy Litigation Trends: Meta Pixels, Cookie Opt-Out, and Sale of Data
Fashion Counsel: Privacy in the Retail Fashion Industry
Healthcare Privacy Walkthroughs
CF on Cyber: An Update on the Florida Security of Communications Act (FSCA)
NGE On Demand: Privacy Considerations for Remote Work Productivity Monitoring with David Wheeler
I Wish I Knew What I Know Now: Conversations with AGG on FDA Issues - Data Privacy Issues Life Sciences Companies May Encounter
Education Data Privacy and Security Laws: Best Practices for School Districts
Compliance Perspectives: Permissible Disclosures under HIPAA, Especially in the Time of COVID-19
E14: The Three Pillars of GDPR
E13: GDPR Wedding Day & Beyond
BakerHostetler Partner Alan Friel Talks Big Data and Data Collection
IP|Trend: It’s Time to Get to Know the Federal Trade Commission
IP|Trend: Keeping Your Start-Up Compliant
Yul Kwon, Head of @Facebook's Privacy Program & CBS 'Survivor' Winner, Opens Up On @HsuUntied
An Overview of the 2014 Class Action Survey
A California bill aimed at curbing the explosion of lawsuits filed against businesses using common website tools like cookies, pixels, and session replay software has stalled out in the 2025 legislative session, meaning your...more
Healthline Media has agreed to pay $1.55 million to resolve allegations that it violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) – which is the largest settlement to date under the state’s landmark privacy law. The...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
Businesses just received some good news when a federal court dismissed a California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) claim that aimed to expand the reach of the state’s wiretapping law to cover internet communications. The...more
Effective companies use their websites to engage with visitors, understand their market, and drive sales — but the legal landscape has grown in complexity in recent years such that maintaining a strong website for your...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 a big win for businesses, a California federal court just held that a “tester” plaintiff – someone who visits websites for purposes of initiating litigation – cannot bring a claim under the California Invasion of Privacy...more
As the privacy litigation landscape continues to take shape, search bars have quietly become a Trojan horse in online data collection, carrying new legal theories into the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) arena. The...more
When browsing the internet, consumers are accustomed to being presented with advertisements for products for which they previously had searched. Through use of third-party tracking tools, companies are able to monitor visitor...more
In late March, an online retailer successfully asserted consent as a complete defense to a putative Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act of 1978 (WESCA) class action lawsuit, resulting in the...more
The following is sufficient consent for the Video Privacy Protection Act and the California Invasion of Privacy Act, according to a recent decision in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California....more
An oft-discussed topic on this blog is the rise in lawsuits asserting illegal wiretapping claims against companies that use technology on their websites to track consumer interactions. Recently, a Pennsylvania federal judge...more
Almost every business has a website; every website should have a privacy policy, terms of use, and, in some cases, a consumer privacy rights notice—if certain state consumer privacy rights laws apply to your business, such as...more
Businesses with a website beware: California regulators just warned that the law prohibits your website from making website users jump through hoops or otherwise confusing them as they try to exercise their privacy rights,...more
In a significant move to enhance consumer privacy and promote transparency in digital practices, the New York State Attorney General recently published two critical guides: “Website Privacy Controls: A Guide for Business” and...more
On July 15, 2024, the Office of the New York State Attorney General (OAG) published website privacy control guidance focused on cookies and other tracking technologies. The guidance identifies common deficiencies and...more
Website privacy controls—in the form of banners and pop-ups asking visitors to agree to, or reject, a website’s use of cookies, pixels, and similar technologies used to track their behavior—are becoming ubiquitous. In the...more
Class-action lawyers are adapting their legal tactics, moving away from suing companies under California's wiretap law and instead focusing on a new legal claim: the pen register theory....more
A California appeals court just pressed fast-forward and ruled that the state can immediately begin enforcing new regulations governing the state’s cornerstone data privacy law instead of waiting until late next month. This...more
This post is part of a series of articles we are doing on 2023 data protection litigation trends. 2023 saw a rise in class action litigation related to internet tracking technology employed by companies to enhance user...more
This breakout series will discuss the latest U.S. privacy compliance programs, and how trends such as sale opt-out and cookie banners are part of the “data revolution”. The series will also cover the intersection of...more
In recent months, organizations have been dealing with an emerging wave of lawsuits from an unexpected source: the VPPA. The Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”), originally intended to prevent “wrongful disclosures” of...more
What You Need To Know In A Minute Or Less - Throughout this series, we have discussed the recent surge of session replay lawsuits—particularly in Pennsylvania, California, and Florida—and the potential for these cases to...more
The case of Popa v. Harriet Carter Gifts, Inc. “began with a quest for pet stairs.” Plaintiff Ashley Popa searched Harriet Carter Gifts’ website, added pet stairs to her cart, but never completed the purchase. During her...more
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