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2025 Year in Review: California Shine the Light Request Trends

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Throughout 2025, we saw a noticeable uptick in requests from California residents invoking their rights under the state’s “Shine the Light” law, Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.83. ...more

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Privacy Notices Explained: When a Policy Is Required and When It Is Not Enough Consumer Privacy Thresholds, Point-of-Collection...

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Publishing a website privacy policy is now standard practice. But assuming that a single, generic policy covers everything is inherently risky. In reality, privacy obligations can arise from several directions: baseline...more

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Focus on privacy compliance

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Compliance sweep to be undertaken by the OAIC - The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (the OAIC) has kick-started the year by beginning its first compliance sweep. The OAIC will select approximately 60...more

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Is Florida the New Hotbed for Digital Wiretapping Lawsuits? 6 Steps You Can Take to Minimize Your Risk

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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

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Global Privacy Controls: Preparing for the Next Wave of Enforcement

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As privacy regulations continue to evolve in the U.S., states are increasingly requiring businesses to honor universal opt-out signals that communicate a consumer’s data-sharing preferences. Global Privacy Control (GPC) is a...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Who, Me? A Wiretapper? Common Website Activities May Subject Your Business to Demands Under the California Invasion of Privacy Act

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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

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Court Allows CIPA Claim Involving Third-Party Pixels To Proceed, Ignores Contrary Case Law: What Your Business Needs To Know

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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

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Privacy Under Fire: Compliance strategies that work

As we’ve said, privacy compliance has long since evolved beyond check-the-box expectations. Today, organizations can no longer afford to be passive about privacy, and instead must be actively engaged in managing all aspects...more

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Website Tracking Lawsuit Against Retailer Dismissed for Lack of Standing: What California Ruling Means for Your Business

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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

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Your Website Chatbot Could Cost Your Business: What You Need to Know About Rising Digital Wiretapping Risks in Florida and Beyond

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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

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Judge Tosses California Digital Wiretapping Claim: Here’s the Good News + Lessons for Businesses

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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

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U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: September 2025 Decisions

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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

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Pennsylvania House Passes Consumer Privacy Bill: What Your Business Needs to Know + 6 Steps You Can Take Now

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Pennsylvania could soon join the growing list of states to enact comprehensive data privacy laws, and businesses that operate in PA must take note. Earlier this month, the commonwealth’s House passed a bipartisan consumer...more

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Biometric Privacy in Washington Workplaces: Key Considerations for Employers

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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

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Understanding CIPA: California’s Expanding Website Privacy Law

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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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

2025 Brought Us Eight US “Comprehensive” Privacy Laws, What’s Next?

For those keeping track of the growing list of US state “comprehensive” privacy laws, you know that the Maryland law (the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act or MODPA) went into effect on October 1st. This rounds us out for US...more

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US Privacy Data Privacy Law Compliance Checklist

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In 2019, the US data privacy framework changed significantly with the emergence of the California Consumer Privacy Act which created a significant compliance burden for most businesses that collect personal information about...more

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California Breaks New Ground With Record $1.35M Fine for Job Applicant Mistakes: 6-Step Action Plan for Employers

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The California Privacy Protection Agency, the state’s main data privacy regulator, just announced its largest fine yet – a record-setting $1.35 million – against an employer that it found to have violated job applicant and...more

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Privacy Policy Lessons After Google App Data Verdict

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After a three-week trial, on Sept. 3, a California federal jury found Google liable for two California law-based claims in invasion of privacy and common-law inclusion upon seclusion. The class action, Rodriguez v. Google...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Privacy Under Fire: Lessons from recent cases

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

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Australia: Scraping the Barrel – When Data Scraping Breaches the Privacy Act

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Data scraping is an automated process through which computer programs extract vast amounts of data from the internet at a faster rate than manual data collection methods....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Android VPN Apps Linked to Chinese Co (Qihoo 360) Tied to PRC

Researchers at Arizona State University and Citizen Lab have discovered that three families of Android VPN applications, used by millions of people worldwide, are related and owned by companies or individuals located in...more

Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

Why Your Company Needs a Robust Website Privacy Policy

In today’s digital landscape, a website privacy policy is no longer just a legal formality—it’s a critical shield for your business and a trust-building tool for your customers.  Here’s why every company should prioritize...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

Amendment 13 to the Israeli Privacy Protection Law is Here! Are You Ready?

Amendment 13, which significantly updates privacy laws in Israel, has come into effect! If you still don’t know what to do to comply with the requirements, we’ve prepared a guide to help you address the main issues (not all...more

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Proposed New Jersey Regulations Would Require Major Privacy Compliance Shifts for Businesses

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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

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