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Businesses Beware: California Trap & Trace Lawsuits Target Common Website Tools

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These lawsuits make generalized allegations that business websites use software or tools to collect various types of device and browsing information from website visitors and that businesses then share such information with...more

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Disclosure of Data Through Website Cookies May Be a Data Breach – What A Recent Court Ruling Means for Healthcare Businesses

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A California federal court recently ruled that disclosure of certain data collected through website cookies that may qualify as health information could trigger a data breach under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) –...more

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Cookie Cutter: NY AG Announces Cookie Scrutiny with Business Guide to Website Privacy Controls

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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

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Universal Consent: Building Beyond Cookie Consent

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In this webinar, we discuss the rising importance of first-party and zero-party data and how universal consent helps organizations solve the bottlenecks, challenges and heartaches associated with the evolution of data privacy...more

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Dechert Cyber Bits - Key Developments in Privacy & Cybersecurity - Issue 49

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FTC Announces Proposed Settlement with Software Provider to Settle Allegations that its Inadequate Security Safeguards Led to Cyberattack - On February 1, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced a proposed...more

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California Online Tracking Lawsuits Shift Away from Wiretap Theory Toward Pen Register Theory

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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

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Year in Review: 2023 Web Tracking Litigation and Enforcement

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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

Osano

Understanding GDPR Cookie Consent

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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has brought significant changes to how companies handle personal data—and cookies are easily one of the largest sources of personal information for businesses. Find out all about...more

BakerHostetler

Data Dividend: What is Personal Data Worth?

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This breakout series will discuss the latest trends in U.S. privacy laws and how trends such as sale opt-out and cookie banners are changing the way businesses collect and use personal data. Showcasing attorneys in our...more

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Data Revolution: How U.S. Privacy Laws Change the Way Data Should be Managed by Retail and Tech Industries

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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

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AGA Working Groups Grapple with Gritty Topics: Cybersecurity, ORC and Cannabis

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From October 3rd to 5th in Boston, the Attorney General Alliance (AGA) held a series of working group meetings focused on topics uppermost in the minds of state AGs: cybersecurity, organized retail crime (ORC) and cannabis....more

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“Pixels” and “Cookies,” Charming Terms for Tracking Technology, Can Lead to Ugly Data Privacy Headaches

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Companies in all industries and of all sizes are evaluating sophisticated and useful technology for their websites and applica- tions (their “apps”) in an effort to enhance and develop their image or brand and to support...more

McDermott Will & Emery

For the General Counsel’s Desk: Managing Enforcement Risks Involving Cookies, Pixels, and Other Tracking Technologies

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Data governance is a mission-critical issue for every company and institution in the United States. GCs face a host of pressing cybersecurity concerns. Triaging them requires time, attention, and a well-rounded strategy...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Updata: Your quarterly privacy & cybersecurity update - January to March 2023

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Welcome to the latest edition of Updata! Updata is an international report produced by Eversheds Sutherland’s dedicated Privacy and Cybersecurity team – it provides you with a compilation of key privacy and cybersecurity...more

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La CNIL sanziona una software-house di videogiochi

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Alla luce del recente provvedimento dell’Autorità Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali Francese, la Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (“Garante” o “CNIL”), riportiamo di seguito un’analisi del...more

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The online health data ecosystem takes another regulatory hit

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Health companies cannot use online tracking technologies like other consumer organizations. This refrain, repeated frequently by regulators, litigants and the media in recent months, may now have found its clearest voice in...more

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France fines software company €60 million for data violations

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In December, the French data protection agency, Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), imposed a €60 million penalty against a global software development company accused of making it harder for users...more

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Could Cookies and Other Tracking on Websites Violate HIPAA – HHS Warns Covered Entities About Tracking on Websites and Use of...

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Earlier this month, the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”), the organization that has jurisdiction over enforcement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...more

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Cookies and personal data - what are the obligations of entities that use cookies?

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On 11 July 2022, the Voivodeship Administrative Court in Warsaw (the "WSA") overturned the decision of the President of the Personal Data Protection Office (the "President of the PDPO"), concluding that any user information...more

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Pliki cookies a dane osobowe – jakie są obowiązki podmiotów korzystających z plików cookies?

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11 lipca 2022 roku Wojewódzki Sąd Administracyjny w Warszawie („WSA”) uchylił decyzję Prezesa Urzędu Ochrony Danych Osobowych („Prezes UODO”), nie zgadzając się z tym, że każda informacja o użytkowniku, zapisana poprzez pliki...more

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UK Data: A New Direction – UK Government Responds to Consultation

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On 16 June 2022, the UK government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (“the DCMS”) published its response to its Data Reform consultation. The response sets out the UK government’s key data protection reform...more

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Virginia Finalizes CDPA Text With the Addition of Three Amendment Bills

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Connecticut Passes the Fifth US State Consumer Privacy Law - The Connecticut governor has formally signed and passed An Act Concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring (CPDA), making this law the fifth US state...more

BakerHostetler

International Data Protection Update - Winter 2021/2022

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This Update highlights some of the international data protection issues that caught our attention and the attention of our clients over the winter, including updates on European data transfers and cookie compliance,...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Cookies Resulting in Cross Border Data Transfers to the United States Draw Scrutiny from European Data Privacy Regulators

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Recent decisions from the European Union (EU) have placed renewed focus on the use of common cookies used on ecommerce and other websites used by consumers and employees and transfers of personal data collected through...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

The Privacy and Antitrust Paradox in the Age of Data

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It used to be privacy was largely the domain of constitutional law and patient health care law: the Fourth Amendment, and then the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)....more

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