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California Court Rejects Attempt to Expand Third-Party Eavesdropping Claims to Internet Communications: How Your Business Can...

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Businesses just received some good news when a federal court dismissed a California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) claim that aimed to expand the reach of the state’s wiretapping law to cover internet communications. The...more

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Businesses Get Big Privacy Win in Tester Plaintiffs’ Wiretapping Case: 3 Key Takeaways

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In a big win for businesses, a California federal court just held that a “tester” plaintiff – someone who visits websites for purposes of initiating litigation – cannot bring a claim under the California Invasion of Privacy...more

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From Search to Share: Court Holds Third-Party Interception of Search Bar Terms Can Support CIPA Claim

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As the privacy litigation landscape continues to take shape, search bars have quietly become a Trojan horse in online data collection, carrying new legal theories into the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) arena. The...more

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Do Dark Patterns Lurk on Your Website? 4 Steps Businesses Should Take as Regulators Focus on How Privacy Rights Are Presented on...

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Businesses with a website beware: California regulators just warned that the law prohibits your website from making website users jump through hoops or otherwise confusing them as they try to exercise their privacy rights,...more

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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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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

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Why You Need a Website Privacy Policy

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Privacy is a growing area of regulation in the United States, and not just for large institutions like national banks. If you do business in the United States, it is becoming increasingly likely that you are covered by a law...more

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Exploitation of Publicly Available Website Data May be Unstoppable

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Data scraping is a technique by which automated tools are used to extract data from a website and format the data for analysis. Many companies mine website users’ publicly accessible data in order to tailor products and...more

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Analysis of Attorney General Regulations to CCPA – Part 4: Special Rules Regarding Minors

The California Attorney General’s CCPA draft regulations impose additional requirements for collection of data from children under 13 on top of those imposed by the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA),...more

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