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New York’s New Website Privacy Controls: What Your Business Needs to Know

In a significant move to enhance consumer privacy and promote transparency in digital practices, the New York State Attorney General recently published two critical guides: “Website Privacy Controls: A Guide for Business” and...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

New York Attorney General Issues Website Tracking Guidelines for Businesses and Consumers

This week, the New York Attorney General issued two privacy guides—one for businesses and one for consumers—outlining online tracking and privacy controls for websites and browsers....more

McDermott Will & Emery

New York Attorney General Issues Cookie Guidance and Enforcement Warnings

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On July 15, 2024, the Office of the New York State Attorney General (OAG) published website privacy control guidance focused on cookies and other tracking technologies. The guidance identifies common deficiencies and...more

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California Trap & Trace Class Actions on the Rise in the Age of Website Trackers

Future LLC, a magazine and website publisher and owner of the TechRadar.com website, faces allegations that it collected website visitors’ IP addresses without consent in violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Privacy Litigation Alert: Two California decisions weigh in on pen registry and “tap and trace” tech claims – but reach different...

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Keypoint: Two California state court decisions have addressed motions to dismiss claims under the novel “pen registry” and “tap and trace” theories, but reached different outcomes after finding different policy considerations...more

Kilpatrick

California Online Tracking Lawsuits Shift Away from Wiretap Theory Toward Pen Register Theory

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Class-action lawyers are adapting their legal tactics, moving away from suing companies under California's wiretap law and instead focusing on a new legal claim: the pen register theory....more

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

Use of Pen Registers Is Focus of Recent Consumer Privacy Claims

As readers of our blog know, the use of website user tracking software has been the subject of many recent consumer privacy lawsuits. The latest iteration of consumer privacy cases involves the use of “pen registers” that...more

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Year in Review: 2023 Web Tracking Litigation and Enforcement

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This post is part of a series of articles we are doing on 2023 data protection litigation trends. 2023 saw a rise in class action litigation related to internet tracking technology employed by companies to enhance user...more

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Privacy Litigation Trends: Meta Pixels, Cookie Opt-Out, and Sale of Data

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This breakout series will discuss the latest U.S. privacy compliance programs, and how trends such as sale opt-out and cookie banners are part of the “data revolution”. The series will also cover the intersection of...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

Companies Should Keep in Mind Chatbots, Session Recordings, Mouseclicks: New Consumer Privacy Suits Continue Under Decades-Old...

Numerous new website technologies and tools allow companies to more effectively interact with their customers. These include chatbots, session recording software, tracking pixels (snippets of code that can be used to identify...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Advocate Aurora Health to Pay $12.25 Million Settlement for Data Breach Class Action

In October 2022, Advocate Aurora Health notified 3 million individuals of a data breach resulting from its use of tracking pixels on its website for tracking website visitor activity. Now, this month, Advocate Aurora Health...more

K&L Gates LLP

Litigation Minute: The Next Wave of Website Privacy Lawsuits (Pixel Tool Litigation Series: Part One)

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What You Need To Know In A Minute Or Less - The rise in session replay litigation has paved the way for a new wave of website privacy lawsuits: pixel tool litigation. Plaintiffs have increasingly challenged the use of this...more

BCLP

VPPA Trends: Considerations for Limiting Exposure

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In recent months, organizations have been dealing with an emerging wave of lawsuits from an unexpected source: the VPPA. The Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”), originally intended to prevent “wrongful disclosures” of...more

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Litigation Minute: Protecting Against Session Replay Suits (Session Replay Series: Part Four of Four)

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What You Need To Know In A Minute Or Less - Throughout this series, we have discussed the recent surge of session replay lawsuits—particularly in Pennsylvania, California, and Florida—and the potential for these cases to...more

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Latest FTC Health Privacy Case Sheds Light on Agency Health Privacy Approaches

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Health privacy has been a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) priority for decades, and indeed, one of its very first privacy cases, in the early 2000s, involved the inadvertent sharing of user health data. Fast-forward a few...more

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For Your 2023 Worry List: Anti-Wiretap Class Actions Against Website Operators Surge, But Proper Consent Can Reduce Risk

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Website session replay technology continues to fuel class action litigation alleging violations of anti-wiretap laws in all-party consent states. In 2021, we issued an alert highlighting that session replay lawsuits were...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Protecting Your Business From Recent Trend of Wiretap Lawsuits Targeting Companies With Consumer-Facing Websites

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Class Action Lawsuits Stemming From Use of Session Replay Software Are on the Rise - In an effort to enhance customer experience, many businesses and institutions have their public-facing websites collect information with the...more

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The Rise Of The Self-Tapping Website? State Wiretapping Class Actions Take Off After Two Recent Circuit Court Decisions

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The second half of 2022 saw a wave of class action litigation under state wiretapping laws against website operators that use widely deployed online technologies, such as chatboxes and session replay software....more

K&L Gates LLP

Third Circuit Gives Pennsylvania Consumers New Footing for Internet Tracking Claims

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Following a recent decision, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals breathed new life into Pennsylvania consumer claims that the practice of tracking a customer’s movements on a company’s website violates Pennsylvania’s...more

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Timing Is Everything: Ninth Circuit Addresses Chatbot Consent Requirements

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According to a recent unpublished Ninth Circuit ruling, failure to obtain consent prior to using recording technologies is not sufficient for purposes of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). This ruling is notable...more

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Lead Generation Compliance Attorney on How Use of Technologies to Track Web Session Data May Violate Law

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Attention Lead Generators. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that use of certain technologies on a websites in order to track and record web session data before obtaining affirmative consent may be a...more

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Amendments to Hong Kong Data Protection Law to Widen the Definition of “Personal Data” - Part 5 of 6

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Hong Kong proposes to widen the current definition of “personal data” to cover not just “identified” persons but also “identifiable” persons. The amendment is expected to cover the use of online tracking technologies such as...more

BakerHostetler

Panning for Litigation Gold in ‘1's' and ‘0's'

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How it began: A woman used her smartphone to browse once for accessories on her favorite retailer’s website. How it’s going: The retailer and an online consumer tracking software company find themselves in the long slog of...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Challenges to Google's Collection of Web Browsing Data Survive Motion to Dismiss

A class action lawsuit will proceed against Google over its collection of data from users browsing in "incognito mode," as District Judge Lucy Koh denied Google's motion to dismiss on March 12, 2021. In Brown v. Google, Judge...more

Foster Garvey PC

Online Travel Update: Expedia dominates early 2021 television advertising; powerhouse technology and health care companies join...

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This week’s Online Travel Update features updates to a number of stories that we covered previously – online vaccination records, Apple’s privacy policy and the many challenges associated with regulating online platforms’...more

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