CPPA launched its first major enforcement action in targeting connected vehicle-maker Honda.
Connected vehicles often collect various kinds of sensitive driver information, including geolocation, biometric and behavioral…
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Key Takeaways: On December 28, 2024, education technology company PowerSchool disclosed a cybersecurity breach impacting 62 million students and 9.5 million educators across the globe. The intrusion, which began on December 19,…
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/ Education Law, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
2024 marked another significant year for privacy law, with new state legislation and high-stakes litigation reshaping the landscape. Legal battles over tracking technologies, biometric data, and children’s privacy intensified,…
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/ Administrative Law, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Amazon faces allegations of unauthorized data collection in violation of federal and state privacy laws, including a first-of-its-kind claim under Washington’s My Health My Data Act (“MHMDA”). The MHMDA restricts businesses from…
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/ Consumer Protection, Health, Privacy
Plaintiffs are persistently crafting creative legal theories to target tracking technologies.
One new approach is to characterize tracking technologies as “pen registers” or “trap and trace devices” used in violation of CIPA…
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/ Civil Procedure, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Repurposing old laws to challenge new technologies has become the new normal in the privacy space. Plaintiffs continue to bring a kaleidoscope of privacy claims against companies in the tech age, reviving laws like the…
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/ Finance & Banking, Privacy, Consumer Protection, Science, Computers, & Technology
There has been a recent surge of privacy class action lawsuits under the Arizona Telephone, Utility, and Communication Service Records Act targeting the use of common email marketing analytics technologies.
Defendants are…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Central District of California dismisses lawsuit alleging that a third-party’s interception of communications over a website’s live chat feature violated California’s wiretapping and eavesdropping prohibitions.
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/ Communications & Media Law, Privacy
As part of our commitment to keeping you informed of new regulatory developments and their potential implications, we have highlighted recent statements by federal officials concerning loyalty programs, such as those involving…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Consumer Protection, Privacy
While French skincare company L’Occitane (the “Company”) successfully thwarted a mass arbitration effort by plaintiffs’ firm Zimmerman Reed and approximately 3,000 customers (the “Claimants”), the Southern District of California…
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/ Consumer Protection, Privacy
A federal judge in the Northern District of California delivered a blow to a potential class action lawsuit against Google over its ad auction practices. The lawsuit, which allegedly involved tens of millions of Google account…
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/ Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Over a hundred cases are pending from the wave of privacy class actions that commenced last year alleging violations of state wiretap statutes based on use of website session replay, chatbot and pixel technologies…
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/ Civil Procedure, Communications & Media Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
On July 20, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the Office for Civil Rights of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“OCR”) announced that they had sent a warning letter to about 130 hospital…
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/ Consumer Protection, Health, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
The Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) has long been described as the floor for health care privacy laws and that states and regulators are free to enact more restrictive health care privacy laws…
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/ Consumer Protection, Health, Privacy
On March 2, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it had reached a $7.8 million settlement with mental health and online counseling platform, BetterHelp, Inc. (“BetterHelp”). The FTC alleged that BetterHelp…
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