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COOKIES Cookie Consent Gone Wrong: The Lawsuit Surge Website Owners Can’t Ignore
For years, the cookie consent banner was treated as a legal formality — a checkbox exercise to satisfy privacy regulators and move…
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY – CPRA Why Google’s June 15 Corporate Mandate Strips Corporate Counsel of a Critical Privacy Safety Net
For the past several years, corporate legal departments, chief privacy officers, and data protection leads have operated under a comforting, albeit technical,…
LAW FIRMS Carney Bates & Pulliam Little Rock National Data Privacy Litigation Firm
From a boutique practice in Arkansas, Carney Bates & Pulliam has become one of the most feared names in consumer data privacy…
The FTC’s $930,000 Active Listening Smackdown: What the Cox Media Group Case Means for AI, Consent, and Your Business
The Federal Trade Commission has just handed the marketing industry one of its most instructive AI enforcement actions to date — and…
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY – CPRA Sites Still Tracking You After You Opt Out: What the webXray Audit Means for Privacy Compliance
If you think clicking “opt out” on a Google, Meta, or Microsoft service actually stops them from tracking you, a new independent…
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…