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Yahoo ConnectID Faces Class Action Over Email Address Tracking as Alleged Wiretap Violation

Yahoo’s ConnectID is a cookieless identity solution that allows advertisers and publishers to personalize, measure, and perform ad campaigns by leveraging first-party data and 1-to-1 consumer relationships. ConnectID uses...more

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Session-Replay Class Action Tossed by the Eighth Circuit

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Over the last several years, litigation (often class actions) premised on the use of technology like session-replay products, web beacons, pixels, and cookies has proliferated. Typical theories include plaintiffs claiming...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Class Certification Granted – California Website Tracking Lawsuit Reminds Businesses about Notice Risks

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A California federal district court recently granted class certification in a lawsuit against a financial services company. The case involves allegations that the company’s website used third-party technology to track users’...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

California Invasion of Privacy Act Lawsuits: An Update

Over the past year, lawsuits under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) have gained significant momentum, and there’s no sign of them slowing down. Both state and federal courts in California are seeing a rise in...more

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Pen Register and Trap and Trace Claims: The Latest Wave of CIPA Litigation

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A new species of website privacy litigation has taken hold in 2024, based on arcane provisions of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) that restrict law enforcement’s use of pen register or trap and trace devices...more

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PEO Pointers – Are You Using Chatbots or Pixels on Your Website? Consider Mitigating Measures to Avoid Wiretapping Litigation

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Some common digital marketing techniques used by PEOs have become the recent target of data security litigation – and you should consider taking mitigating measures if your PEO deploys these strategies to put yourself in a...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

California Rulings Prompt Wave of Website Wiretapping Claims

If your company has a website and does not disclose the use of session replay software or that the chats on its website are being transcribed, please read this important alert. ...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

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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

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Oracle Accused of Invading Privacy with Tracking Technologies

A new class action lawsuit was filed in federal court in California against Oracle America, Inc., alleging that it has been invading consumers’ privacy by using tracking technologies to build “digital dossiers” on individual...more

Hinch Newman LLP

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

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Privacy and Data Security Client Alert | January 2019

Going Deep on the California Consumer Privacy Act - The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has been called the beginning of America’s GDPR. As the most comprehensive privacy law in the United States, entities doing...more

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