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CALIFORNIA PRIVACY – CPRA Ace Hardware Broken Consent Banner Privacy Case Expands Damages Beyond $5,000
We have screamed at the top of our virtual lungs about the risks of having a broken cookie banner and having to…
COMPLIANCE Federal Court Declares Serial CIPA Litigant Vivek Shah a Vexatious Litigant
In a landmark development for companies navigating the surge of privacy-related demand letters and lawsuits, the U.S.
DATA IAB charts a pragmatic path for modernizing children’s privacy law
The Interactive Advertising Bureau’s new white paper, Protecting America’s Youth: A Balanced Framework for Modernizing Children’s Privacy Law, offers something increasingly rare…
CIPA Website Tracking Lawsuits: What a ‘Pen Register’ Claim Is, Who’s Being Sued, and How to Defend Your Website
A statute written in 1967 to stop people from clipping alligator leads onto telephone lines is now the busiest privacy litigation engine…
COOKIES What Is Consent Orchestration?
A visitor clicks “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” on your website.
GDPR Google Fonts and GDPR: What the Munich Ruling Requires and How to Self-Host Your Way Out of Exposure
A German website operator lost a GDPR lawsuit over a font. Not a tracking pixel, not an advertising cookie, not a data…
Scalable AI Governance Breaking Past Homegrown AI Governance
Most AI governance programs do not begin with specialized software and become hard to scale safely.
State enforcers are raising the stakes on kids’ and teens’ privacy
While federal children’s privacy legislation remains stalled, state attorneys general are proving they do not need new laws to take meaningful action.
Clearview AI Settlement Overturned as Years of Biometric Privacy Controversies Return to Court
A federal appeals court has overturned the class-action settlement that would have given millions of people a potential financial interest in Clearview…
LAW FIRMS Who Is Robert Bell? Inside the CIPA Wiretapping Demand Letters Targeting Ecommerce Websites
If your business has received a certified letter from an individual named Robert Bell citing violations of California Penal Code §§ 631(a)…
Meta Faces Staggering $1.4 Trillion Penalty Demand in US Youth Safety Trial
In a development that underscores the growing regulatory heat on Big Tech, four US states are seeking a staggering $1.4 trillion (approximately…
DATA Lofty Sues Vivek Shah First in a New Test of California CIPA Website Claims
Most companies that receive a California Invasion of Privacy Act demand letter are placed in a defensive position.