We get Privacy for work — Episode 7: What Is a WISP and Why Your Organization Must Have One
How Startups Can Comply With Ever-Changing Privacy Laws
Getting Bang for Your Buck: Spend Your 2025 Privacy Budget Wisely
No Password Required: Director and Cybersecurity Adviser at KPMG and Rain Culture Authority
Navigating the Regulation Jungle: How to Be Compliant, Work Efficiently, and Stay Sane
The ‘Long Arm’ of CIPA and Its Newfound Pen-Trap Claims
Privacy Litigation Trends: Meta Pixels, Cookie Opt-Out, and Sale of Data
Fashion Counsel: Privacy in the Retail Fashion Industry
Healthcare Privacy Walkthroughs
CF on Cyber: An Update on the Florida Security of Communications Act (FSCA)
NGE On Demand: Privacy Considerations for Remote Work Productivity Monitoring with David Wheeler
I Wish I Knew What I Know Now: Conversations with AGG on FDA Issues - Data Privacy Issues Life Sciences Companies May Encounter
Education Data Privacy and Security Laws: Best Practices for School Districts
Compliance Perspectives: Permissible Disclosures under HIPAA, Especially in the Time of COVID-19
E14: The Three Pillars of GDPR
E13: GDPR Wedding Day & Beyond
BakerHostetler Partner Alan Friel Talks Big Data and Data Collection
IP|Trend: It’s Time to Get to Know the Federal Trade Commission
IP|Trend: Keeping Your Start-Up Compliant
Yul Kwon, Head of @Facebook's Privacy Program & CBS 'Survivor' Winner, Opens Up On @HsuUntied
Closely held businesses such as family-owned manufacturers, professional services firms, multi-location retailers, healthcare practices and private real estate companies handle significant amounts of sensitive information...more
Until California’s legislature provides clearer guardrails, companies should expect continued class action activity under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), targeting common website tracking technologies....more
As our readers know, the use of internet tracking technologies on consumer-facing websites is widespread. Utilization of these third-party tracking tools, however, has led to a proliferation of lawsuits alleging that...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
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Regulations got a New Year update, with amendments effective on January 1, 2026. Think of these changes as a front-door refresh—strengthening key points to the privacy program—rather...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
Does your company operate a website and do business in California? If so, you may soon receive (if you have not already) a letter from a law firm on behalf of a California resident aggrieved by your alleged violation of the...more
Over the last several years, plaintiffs’ attorneys and other individuals have used antiquated wiretapping laws, including California’s 1967 wiretapping act, to allege that businesses with websites utilizing third parties and...more
Businesses may be feeling a bit of whiplash from a recent federal court ruling on California’s wiretapping law and should be on alert for whether their website tracking technology could be used to file a viable lawsuit. On...more
Claimants are reviving a 1960s-era wiretapping law to challenge common website tracking tools – including pixels, session replay, chat widgets, and more. Data privacy and compliance professionals navigate an increasing number...more
“Trap and trace” and website privacy lawsuits are on the rise nationwide. Plaintiffs’ lawyers are zeroing in on companies that use chat tools, analytics, or ad pixels without proper disclosures or consent. The common thread?...more
While it’s common for companies to think that simply having a data privacy policy is enough to meet privacy law requirements, a strong privacy program involves much more than what’s visible on the “stage.” Behind the curtain,...more
A California federal court recently handed businesses another major victory in the ongoing wave of privacy lawsuits targeting website analytics and tracking tools. On September 30, Judge Fernando Aenlle-Rocha of the Central...more
Does your company’s website use automated bots to interact with visitors? A wave of Florida-based privacy litigation has created new compliance considerations for businesses that use what are now commonplace website tools. If...more
A federal judge in San Francisco just gave website operators a major win, calling the California Invasion of Privacy Act “a total mess” – but the ruling also highlights major privacy risks businesses still face nationwide....more
In this post: (1) Courts find cookie banners and sign-in banners place users on notice of privacy policy; (2) but policy must explicitly notify users of practice to establish consent; (3) Courts disagree whether disclosure of...more
Employers in Washington who use biometric timekeeping or security tools should take note of recent developments. While current state laws provide some exemptions for employment-related uses of biometric data, new litigation...more
California’s Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) was enacted in 1967 to prevent unlawful wiretapping. Nearly sixty years later it is being used in a new way: to challenge how websites collect and share user data. Today,...more
As a reminder, The Campaign Registry (“TCR”) continues to be mandatory for telephone numbers that are routed through a virtual phone service provider (“service provider”). The goal of TCR registration is to prevent spam and...more
Three years after its investigation commenced, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has found that retail giant Kmart Australia Limited (Kmart) breached the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) through...more
No more “checking the box.” Privacy policies should no longer be boilerplate for organizations that handle consumer data. Although the policies may be viewed by some organizations as an unimportant “box to check,” they are...more
Officials from California, Colorado, and Connecticut just announced a coordinated investigative sweep targeting companies whose websites may be ignoring automatic opt-out preference signals that users can configure in their...more
Over the past few months, securing approval for listing on The Campaign Registry (“TCR”) has become significantly more difficult. Why? Because virtual phone service providers (“service providers”) continue to update internal...more
New Jersey officials recently released proposed privacy regulations that would create several new compliance obligations for businesses above and beyond what existing state law and many other state laws require, meaning you...more
A California bill aimed at curbing the explosion of lawsuits filed against businesses using common website tools like cookies, pixels, and session replay software has stalled out in the 2025 legislative session, meaning your...more