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BJ’s Wholesale Club Loses Bid to Dismiss Complaint Alleging Massachusetts State Law Claims for Wiretap Violations and Invasion of...

Joe Alves filed a class-action complaint against BJ’s Wholesale Club, alleging that BJ’s uses computer code, called Session Replay Code (SRC), to secretly record consumer activity on BJ’s website. Alves claims that BJ’s...more

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Lead Generation Compliance Attorney on How Use of Technologies to Track Web Session Data May Violate Law

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Attention Lead Generators. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that use of certain technologies on a websites in order to track and record web session data before obtaining affirmative consent may be a...more

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Ninth Circuit Rejects Retroactive Consent for Recording Website Users

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On May 31, the Ninth Circuit issued a memorandum disposition in Javier v. Assurance IQ, LLC, addressing two important questions in California: (1) whether a business can record user interactions on its website without their...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Ohio City Considering Anti-Drone Voyeurism Law

Recently, the Hamilton City Council in Ohio proposed a new local ordinance that would specifically prohibit the use of drones to commit voyeurism in response to complaints from a resident that someone in his neighborhood was...more

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Virginia Takes First Step to Address “Deep Fake” Images and Video

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A law just went into effect in Virginia that makes it illegal to distribute falsely created pornographic videos and images of a person. Section 18.2-386 of the Virginia Code was designed to prevent the distribution of sexual...more

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Secret Video Surveillance Found In Hospital Labor And Delivery Rooms

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The New York Times newly established Privacy Project, recently highlighted the extent to which our society has created a “facial recognition machine” – cameras are everywhere, even in doorbells. Segments of society have...more

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Hulk Hogan’s Legal Leg Drop Sets Precedent for Celebrity Journalism

Famed wrestler Hulk Hogan’s $140 million trial verdict against Gawker Media for publishing a tape of him having relations with his best friend’s wife and using racially offensive language, sends a clear message that despite...more

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Hulk-Sized Damages in Sex Tape Privacy and Publicity Case

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In 2006, Terry Gene Bollea, better known as “Hulk Hogan,” had sex with his best friend’s wife, Heather Clem. Apparently unbeknownst to either of them, his best friend Todd Alan Clem, now legally known as “Bubba the Love...more

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The Law Behind the Hulk Hogan $140 Million Verdict Against Gawker

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A few days ago, a jury in Florida awarded Hulk Hogan (real name Terry Bollea)  $140 million because Gawker posted a leaked sex video of the former wrestler. Rather than focus on the lurid details (which you can Google), let’s...more

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California Privacy Law Update: What to Prepare for in 2015 and Beyond

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California Governor Edmund G. Brown has been busy over the last year and a half, signing several bills into law that strengthen California’s privacy laws in various areas. The bills range in scope from invasion of privacy and...more

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Insurance Coverage for "Unauthorized Recording" Privacy Lawsuits

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A California law against unauthorized recording is spawning consumer class action lawsuits against companies across the country. The statute provides for a $2,500 fine per violation and potential imprisonment for a "person...more

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