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Businesses continue to be subjected to a steady stream of consumer class action lawsuits alleging improper collection or disclosure of information from their websites. A variety of laws and legal claims are used to support...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been actively flexing its authority as a privacy regulator in recent months. The agency has been especially focused on identifying data practices it views to be âunfairâ, thereby...more
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: âWebsite Privacy Controls: A Guide for Businessâ and...more
These lawsuits make generalized allegations that business websites use software or tools to collect various types of device and browsing information from website visitors and that businesses then share such information with...more
On July 30, 2024, the New York Attorney General Letitia James announced she had completed an investigation into the tracking technology practices of popular websites, and used this to create website privacy guides on online...more
This week, the New York Attorney General issued two privacy guidesâone for businesses and one for consumersâoutlining online tracking and privacy controls for websites and browsers....more
In the latest iteration of privacy claims, California plaintiffs have begun filing lawsuits against online retailers using online tracking technologies to collect IP addresses under a new theoryâplaintiffs allege such...more
In November of 2023, Meta launched a service in the European Union that allowed users to utilize the Facebook and Instagram platforms âad freeâ for a monthly fee. The subscription service was meant to address regulatory...more
Data privacy-related lawsuits have skyrocketed in recent years. Federal courts saw over 900 data privacy dockets in 2020 â but witnessed a surge to 1,767 dockets in 2023. At the halfway point in 2024, federal court data...more
Businesses operating public facing websites that employ data analytics software to track usersâ website interactions must be aware of a novel use of the California Information Privacy Act (âCIPAâ) that has taken the...more
The California Song-Beverly Credit Card Act (the âActâ) â an act intended to protect the personal privacy of individuals during credit card transactions â may very well become the new trend in California privacy litigation. ...more
In the latest surge of lawsuits against retailers for embedding tracking technology into websites, yummy cookie company Crumbl was sued on May 1, 2024, for allegedly embedding web-tracking technology allowing third-party...more
California continues to grapple with a significant surge in lawsuits and arbitration demands aimed at businesses operating websites employing technology to monitor online activities. These cases hinge on the California...more
Future LLC, a magazine and website publisher and owner of the TechRadar.com website, faces allegations that it collected website visitorsâ IP addresses without consent in violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act...more
On March 18, 2024, the Office for Civil Rights ("OCR") at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") published updated guidance on the use of online tracking technologies by HIPAA covered entities and business...more
California businesses are experiencing a tsunami of demands and complaints alleging class action status that applies the well-established 1960âs California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) to the internetâs new technology. CIPA...more
According to Chair Lina Khan, the Federal Trade Commission (âFTCâ) recent action against Avast Limited and its subsidiaries for $16.5 million is the âhighest monetary remedy in a de novo privacy violation caseâ and the first...more
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 enforcementâs use of pen register or trap and trace devices...more
Advertising and privacy. In 2024, itâs hard to talk about one without the other. Almost like peanut butter and jelly. A recent case from the Federal Trade Commission is an important reminder about the privacy and...more
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
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 âpen registersâ that...more
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
In the latest example of privacy laws being stretched to fit new digital technologies, plaintiffs have begun to file a flurry of suits alleging that retailers are using pen register and trap-and-trace software to illegally...more
In the latest example of privacy laws being stretched to fit new digital technologies, plaintiffs have begun to file a flurry of suits alleging that retailers are using âpen registerâ and âtrap and traceâ software to...more
2023 saw a continued uptick in privacy litigation filings throughout the United States, with Plaintiffs counsel taking aim at cookies, session replay, video URLs, online âdoxingâ and the use of other online tracking...more