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
Businesses that use website tracking software to monitor activity for marketing purposes must comply with a growing list of state laws – but does that include a nearly 60-year-old Massachusetts law requiring consent to record...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 “doxing” and the use of other online tracking...more
A new class action against Google in federal court in San Jose, Calif., claims that Google's collection of web browsing data from individuals who have enabled "private browsing mode" violates the Federal Wiretap Act, 18...more
While most people are vaguely aware, even if they are in denial, that their browsers give advertisers access to their search histories, they are probably unaware that information is being sold or given to third parties via...more