The New Wave of Web Tracking Litigation: Wiretap Statutes, VPPA Risk, and Consent Strategies — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Life With GDPR: Cookie Compliance
Universal Consent: Building Beyond Cookie Consent
Data Dividend: What is Personal Data Worth?
Privacy Litigation Trends: Meta Pixels, Cookie Opt-Out, and Sale of Data
Data Revolution: How U.S. Privacy Laws Change the Way Data Should be Managed by Retail and Tech Industries
Fashion Counsel: Privacy in the Retail Fashion Industry
E8: Interview with Cookiebot CEO on Technical Solutions to GDPR Readiness
On February 5, 2026, key reforms to the UK’s data protection regime came into force, effectuating a departure from certain aspects of the EU regime and underscoring an emerging divergence between the UK and EU frameworks....more
On 5 February 2026, many of the key reforms to UK data protection law will take effect. They are being introduced through the Data Use and Access Act 2025 (“DUAA”), which is intended to simplify and streamline various parts...more
Key point: In this post: (1) increase in ECPA litigation as courts extend “crime tort” exception beyond health care; (2) service provider wins again against wiretapping claim; (3) defendants lose standing arguments in federal...more
On 5 February 2026, the main changes to data protection legislation in Part 5 of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (“DUAA“) came into force. The DUAA was passed and received Royal Assent on 19 June 2025. Although some of...more
Miss the most recent webinar from the Osano team? Did your question not come up during discussion? Don't worry: We've collated, condensed, and thematically grouped the questions from 2026 Privacy Laws: New Laws, Amendments,...more
Companies with video content on their websites, and the tracking technologies that often come with it, may soon get long-awaited clarity from the U.S. Supreme Court. ...more
Companies with consumer-facing websites can expect to see continued litigation in 2026 under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) and, the Florida Security of Communications Act (FSCA) over their use of website...more
Businesses that run consumer-facing websites have spent the past several years contending with a steady stream of California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) demands and class actions aimed at everyday digital tools such as...more
Plaintiffs’ firms are adapting the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), a 1960s-era wiretapping statute, to modern web technologies such as pixels, chatbots, and session replay tools. For laboratories, the practical...more
On January 26, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Michael Salazar v. Paramount Global (d/b/a 247Sports), No. 25-459, to decide a threshold question under the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA): who...more
Privacy and artificial intelligence (AI) regulation and enforcement have been heating up in the U.S. and around the world. What should device and drug makers expect in 2026?...more
On Monday, January 26, the US Supreme Court agreed to take up a case about the breadth of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA). That federal statute prohibits a “video tape service provider” from “knowingly disclos[ing]”...more
On January 26, 2026, the Supreme Court granted the petition in Salazar v. Paramount Global (Case No. 25-459) to address “[w]hether the phrase ‘goods or services from a video tape service provider,’ as used in the [Video...more
How and when to get consent for cross-device tracking has been a worry for many companies subject to GDPR and similar regimes. The French data protection authority, CNIL, adopted recommendations about this practice in 2020,...more
While it’s impossible to agree on whether 2026 will be the Year of Youth Privacy, the Year of the Data Broker, or (another) Year of the Cookie, one thing we can agree on is that it promises not to be boring! Wait…did we...more
A blend of evolving judicial interpretation, aggressive plaintiffs’ counsel, and decades-old statutory language has brought new life to the Florida Security of Communications Act (FSCA) as a vehicle for challenging...more
Pervasive data collection has fueled a dramatic transformation in the legal data privacy landscape, marked by two distinct, yet parallel, developments: a wave of new state privacy laws and a surge in online privacy lawsuits....more
Despite having been enacted decades ago – during the heyday of the neighborhood brick-and-mortar video store – the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) remained as relevant as ever in 2025. Companies continued to face...more
The California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) was enacted in 1967 to protect individuals from unauthorized wiretapping and eavesdropping. Originally intended to target wiretapping and telephone communications, CIPA has since...more
Businesses across all industries continue to face an onslaught of class action lawsuits asserting novel liability theories under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) in connection with the use of cookies, pixels, and...more
Over the last few years, businesses, nonprofits, and other website operators have seen thousands of lawsuits and arbitrations filed under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) alleging that the use of ubiquitous...more
In the past couple of years, we have seen an explosion in the number of demand letters and lawsuits involving alleged violations of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”). Oftentimes, recipients of a CIPA demand feel...more
The European Commission recently published a comprehensive legislative proposal, known as the Digital Omnibus, aimed at simplifying data regulation within the European Union by amending key legislation governing digital data....more
Key point: In this post: (1) “Broken banner” claims proceed past pleading stage; (2) Courts continue to reject arguments that pen registers are limited to telephones but hope remains; (3) Offering movie trailers on websites...more
Florida has suddenly become flooded with “digital wiretapping” lawsuits or demand letters targeting companies that use standard tracking technologies on their websites or in marketing emails. While historically many of these...more