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 12 March 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) settled with an automaker that allegedly violated various aspects of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). This first-of-its-kind settlement for the...more
On March 12, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced a settlement with American Honda Motor Co., resolving allegations that the company violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and requiring...more
Privacy litigation has taken California (and the country) by storm. In the past twenty-four months, the focus of privacy litigation has shifted from data breaches to data use, and the number of class actions filed grows by...more
English High Court Rules that "Relatively High" Consent to Cookies and Profiling is Required Where Individual is Vulnerable - In a dispute between an individual claimant who was a recovering gambling addict and two...more
If you’re feeling out of the loop about Chrome’s personal data collection, you’re not the only one. Google had announced that it would be deprecating third-party cookies. Then it delayed the deprecation. Then they called the...more
Do you know what cookies your company’s website is using? If not, you likely do not know whether your company’s website is honoring users’ data protection choices involving the use of cookies. You should know and care so your...more
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
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
The Spanish Data Protection Agency (SDPA) has published a brief guidance on the use of cookies (or similar technologies) as audience measurement tools (the “Guidance”). In the framework of the Guidance, the SDPA clarifies...more
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
La Agencia Española de Protección de Datos ha actualizado su Guía sobre el uso de las cookies. Existen cambios relevantes, como nuevos requisitos en el diseño del banner de cookies así como las características para que las...more
The Spanish Data Protection Agency has updated its guidance on cookies. There are relevant changes such as (i) the new requirements for the design of the cookie banner and (ii) the criteria for the installation of...more
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
On May 25th, the Belgian Supervisory Authority (“GBA”) announced that it had imposed a fine of EUR 50,000 on a Belgium-based news media company for using cookies on its websites without complying with applicable cookie law...more
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
A cynical online commenter once wrote this about the data collection practices of the online news site Digg: “If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.” This is true of almost...more
The regulation of cookies and similar tracking technologies is rapidly evolving, not only in the European Union and United Kingdom but also in the United States and globally. If you have visited a website recently, you might...more
This week Adobe Inc. released some updated software for companies to target customers with advertising and offers using the brands’ own data as opposed to third-party cookies. ...more
This quarterly update highlights some of the international data protection issues that have caught our attention, and the attention of our clients, in the past three months....more
Gerade für Juristen ist Begeisterung für und ein Verständnis von Branchen, Geschäftsmodellen und Technologien – gerade vor dem Hintergrund des Datenschutzrechts und des Gewerblichen Rechtsschutzes – unerlässlich und...more
Tides of change in the digital advertising and regulatory landscape over the last few years have recently ushered in an increasingly likely future without third-party cookies. Background – An Abbreviated History of Recent...more
The Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) is the national data protection authority in France. Recently, it announced new guidance on cookies and online trackers (Guidelines). Operators of...more
Cookies and trackers sat on a wall. Cookies and trackers had a great fall. …and all the regulators and all DPAs couldn’t put cookies together again. The Spanish Agencia Española de Protección de Datos AEPD has issued a...more
On May 4, 2020, the European Data Protection Board (‘EDPB’) adopted updated guidelines on the meaning of ‘consent’ under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’)....more
As many in the U.S. were ringing in the New Year on January 1, 2020, the long-anticipated California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) became effective. This statute’s main intent is to protect the privacy of California residents...more