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DATA Mobile Privacy Auditing: A Guide to Compliance Testing with Burp Suite
As privacy regulations continue to tighten globally — from GDPR in Europe to CCPA in California to HIPAA in the US healthcare…
Data Brokers and AI Giants: Why Their “Opt-Out” Forms Are Often Designed to Fail
In the rapidly evolving world of data privacy, one of the most frustrating realities for consumers is the illusion of control.
States Are Begging Congress to Renew Cybersecurity Grants — And the Clock Is Ticking
State cybersecurity officials from Florida, New York, and Tennessee took their case directly to Congress this week, warning lawmakers that without renewal…
What is the _lc2_fpi Cookie? A Guide to Compliance and Tracking
If you have ever run a privacy audit or pulled a cookie scan on your company’s website, you have likely run into…
Ideal Image Data Privacy Lawsuit: A $3.5 Million Settlement That Should Make Every Website Owner Reconsider Their Tracking Strategy
Aspen Dental settled for $18.7 million and Ideal Image settled a privacy lawsuit for $3.5 million.
COOKIES webXray: The Privacy Forensics Company That’s Rewriting the Rules of Digital Accountability
The digital privacy industry has, for years, operated on a kind of polite fiction: put up a cookie banner, tick a few…
LAW FIRMS Strauss Borelli PLLC Privacy Litigation Playbook
Previously known as the law firm “Turke & Strauss LLP” which has split up into two firms with Strauss Borelli being the…
LAW FIRMS Shamis & Gentile, P.A.: The Data Breach Class Action Law Firm For Consumer Privacy Litigation
If you run a company that holds consumer data — and today, that is virtually every company — the name Shamis &…
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY – CPRA California’s Customer Records Act: Data Privacy, Data Security and Breach Liability Risks
The California Customer Records Act (CRA), codified at Civil Code §1798.80 et seq., is a foundational state data security statute that requires…
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY – CPRA California’s Confidentiality of Medical Information Act: Privacy Compliance Guide
The Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA), codified at California Civil Code §56 et seq., is one of the most far-reaching state-level…
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY – CPRA Privacy Alert California Supreme Court Reshapes Medical Data Privacy Law: Victims Need Not Prove Information Was Actually Viewed
In a landmark ruling with sweeping implications for data privacy litigation in California, the state Supreme Court has established a new legal…
LAW FIRMS Lowey Dannenberg, P.C.: Complex Litigation Infrastructure Applied to Data Privacy
IF YOU’VE BEEN SUED FOR A DATA PRIVACY VIOLATION & NEED HELP GETTING YOUR WEBSITE COMPLIANT CONTACT US RIGHT AWAY When Google’s…