ZIP Codes, Song-Beverly Credit Card Act

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - April 2013

by Joshua Gruenspecht, Ken Kumayama, Stuart D. Levi, Sigrid Neilson, Shari Piré, Pierre Servan-Schreiber | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 4/15/2013

In This Issue: - Data-Breach Class Actions After the Supreme Court Decision in Clapper - California Supreme Court Holds That Song-Beverly Credit Card Act Does Not Apply to Online Purchases -...more

California Supreme Court Rules That Song-Beverly Act Does Not Apply To On-Line Transactions

by Timothy Toohey | Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. on 2/22/2013

A little over a year ago, the United States District Court for the Central District of California ruled that California’s Song-Beverly Act (the Act), which prohibits collection of “personal identification information” in...more

California Supreme Court Holds Online Retailers of Downloadable Products May Require Personally Identifying Information For Credit...

by Mira Serrill-Robins | Proskauer - Privacy & Data Security on 2/14/2013

The California Supreme Court held on February 4, 2013 that the provision of the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act of 1971 (the “Act”) prohibiting retailers from requesting personally identifying information as a condition to...more

California Supreme Court Holds that Song-Beverly Act Does Not Apply to Online Downloadable Purchases

by Edward Boyle, Emilio W. Cividanes, Douglas Emhoff, Stuart P. Ingis, Melissa McLaughlin | Venable LLP on 2/14/2013

On February 4, 2013, the California Supreme Court held in Apple Inc. v. Superior Court (Krescent) that the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act’s prohibition against recording customers’ personal identification information as a...more

California Privacy Laws Don’t Protect Consumers Online

by Aaron Kase | Lawyers.com on 2/14/2013

The California Supreme Court ruled last week that online retailers of electronically downloaded goods may seek personal information from customers who use credit cards, bypassing privacy restrictions placed on physical...more

California Supreme Court: Online Retailers May Require Personal Info for Electronic Downloads

by Michael Mallow, Michael Thurman | Loeb & Loeb LLP on 2/13/2013

Online retailers do not violate California's credit card privacy law by requiring consumers to provide personal information, including their addresses and phone numbers, as a condition of accepting credit card payments for...more

You Can’t Make a Square Peg Fit in a Round Hole: California Supreme Court Holds Online Purchases of Electronically Downloadable...

by Megan Low, David McDowell, Purvi Patel | Morrison & Foerster LLP on 2/6/2013

Handing a victory to online retailers, on February 4, 2013, the California Supreme Court held in a split decision that online transactions involving electronically downloadable products fall outside the scope of the...more

Major Win for eCommerce Businesses: California Supreme Court Rules On-Line Merchants May Collect Personal Information to Verify...

by Helen Christakos | Carr, McClellan, Ingersoll, Thompson & Horn -... on 2/6/2013

The California Supreme Court held today in Apple v. Superior Ct. that on-line merchants may require customers to provide personally identifying information (such as home address and phone number) to purchase electronically...more

California Supreme Court Decision Signals Victory For Online Retailers

by Joshua Reiten, Bobbie Wilson, Michael Young | Perkins Coie on 2/6/2013

The California Supreme Court recently issued a landmark ruling in Apple Inc. v. Superior Court (formerly Krescent v. Apple Inc. in trial court proceedings), a case with wide-reaching implications for consumer privacy in...more

The California Supreme Court Loosens Restrictions On Internet Retailers

by Anthony Schoenberg, Stephanie Skaff | Farella Braun + Martel LLP on 2/5/2013

Attempting to strike a balance between the competing concerns of privacy and fraud protection, the California Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act does not apply to online retailers that collect...more

California District Court Holds Song-Beverly Credit Card Act Does Not Prohibit Post-Transaction Collection Of Zip Codes, Denies...

by BuckleySandler LLP on 2/4/2013

On January 28, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied a motion for class certification filed by a group of plaintiffs seeking to challenge, on behalf of similarly situated individuals, a...more

California Supreme Court To Rule On Legality Of Collecting Customer Information During Online Credit Card Purchases

by Joshua Reiten, Bobbie Wilson | Perkins Coie on 1/23/2013

Companies that accept online credit card payments should be keeping an ear very close to the ground for the California Supreme Court’s decision in Apple v. Superior Court (Krescent), expected within the next few weeks. ...more

Retail Customers Obtain Unusually Favorable Settlement In Zip Code Collection Case

by BuckleySandler LLP on 1/23/2013

On January 11, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California approved a settlement between a retailer and a class of customers to resolve allegations that the retailer violated the California Song-Beverly...more

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