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Ninth Circuit Upholds Converse’s Win in CIPA Chat Case: What the Gutierrez v. Converse Decision Means for Online Businesses

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Introduction - The intersection of digital customer service tools and privacy law continues to generate high-stakes litigation, especially in California, where the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) has become a...more

Fisher Phillips

Healthline to Pay $1.55M for Alleged CCPA Violations: Key Lessons for Businesses from Largest Settlement Yet

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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

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

CPPA Underscores That Businesses Own CCPA Compliance – Even When Privacy Management Tools Fail

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The California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) has made it abundantly clear: privacy compliance isn’t just about publishing the right disclosures – it’s about whether your systems actually work. On May 6, the agency fined...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: January 2025

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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

Morrison & Foerster LLP

The Future of Section 230: Protection Against Product Liability Claims?

Courts around the country are grappling with Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 generally shields online platforms from liability for content posted by third-party users, but courts are now deciding if...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Calhoun v. Google - Continued Considerations for Privacy Notices

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Website owners often struggle to design privacy policies that are not only comprehensive, but also comprehensible. The tension between these competing concerns was in sharp focus in a recent Ninth Circuit decision, Calhoun v....more

Husch Blackwell LLP

U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: August 2024

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Keypoint: California district courts continue to split over whether “knowledge” is required to plead liability under Section 631(a)’s fourth prong while two decisions show courts taking different approaches to VPPA claims at...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Litigation Grows Around Website Technologies, With Focus on Sensitive Data

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Data privacy-related lawsuits have skyrocketed in recent years. Federal courts saw over 900 data privacy dockets in 2020 – but witnessed a surge to 1,767 dockets in 2023. At the halfway point in 2024, federal court data...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: April 2024

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Keypoint: The Central District of California issues a major victory for website owners facing CIPA-arbitration demands, two decisions address whether a plaintiff consented as a defense to wiretapping claims, three courts in...more

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Privacy Litigation Update: California courts strike back against claims that website chat functionality violates wiretapping...

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Keypoint: In the wake of a recent California decision that allowed claims alleging use of chat functionality on website violated California wiretapping laws, three California district courts have dismissed nearly identical...more

Weintraub Tobin

GoDaddy Obtains Section 230 Immunity Despite Plaintiffs’ “Sympathetic” Claims

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Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (“CDA”) provides immunity to “interactive computer services” providers against certain types of legal claims, such as when harmful material is posted on their site by third...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Pet Stairs, Wiretapping, and Cookies: Implications of the Third Circuit’s Popa Opinion

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

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

Establishing the Boundaries of the OCILLA Safe Harbor

As user-generated content explodes over the Internet, intellectual property disputes over posting or uploading such content without the owner’s consent continue to escalate. As we touched on in a recent post, social media...more

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