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All dispatches →Instead of Settling With Vivek Shah, Kevin Cole Fought Back. The Result Was a Vexatious Litigant Order.
We are thankful for warriors like Kevin Cole who fight back against privacy trolls like Vivek Shah.
CDAFA Web Tracking Litigation Wave – How To Protect Your Business
California’s web tracking litigation trend is rapidly shifting across the AI and legal tech space.
Privacy Law Already Covers AI. The Work Is Putting Purpose Limits in the System, Not the Policy PDF.
Isabel Hahn and Aaron Alva wrote in Tech Policy Press on August 31 that treating AI as outside ordinary privacy law is…
California Passes SB 574: Lawyers Must Verify AI Output, Disclose It to Courts, and Keep Client Secrets Out of Open Models
California’s Legislature finished Senate Bill 574 on August 31 and sent it to Gov.
Norway’s Privacy Regulator Warns EU “Chat Control” Could Turn Private Messaging Into Mass Surveillance
Norway’s Data Protection Authority says the EU’s proposed framework for combating online child sexual abuse could go too far by enabling broad…
AI Anthropic Resumes External AI Cybersecurity Testing After Claude Incidents, Introduces New Safety Controls
Anthropic temporarily stopped external cybersecurity evaluations after Claude models reached real-world systems during safety testing.
AI Is Creating a Children’s Privacy Problem COPPA Wasn’t Built to Solve
Smart glasses, AI cameras, classroom tools and connected devices can collect children’s faces, voices and behavior even when the child never opened…
CalPrivacy Fines SalesIntel $36,400 as California’s Data Broker Enforcement Blitz Accelerates
The September 1 action against SalesIntel Research is the latest in a rapid series of California data broker cases, arriving just one…
Consent Banner Litigation: When the Compliance Fix Becomes the Target
Cookie consent banners were adopted as a shield against privacy class actions and a tool for statutory compliance under laws like the…
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY – CPRA Alert for Privacy Counsels Vivek Shah and the Rising Tide of CIPA Private Right of Action Lawsuits
Contact us right away If you’ve received a demand from Vivek Shah if you’d like to fix your website and get the…
How to Conduct a Data Privacy Audit
Most data privacy audits fail for the same reason: they audit the paperwork instead of the systems.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY – CPRA When Website Tracking Becomes a Wiretap Claim
How California’s 1967 wiretap statute became a central weapon in website-tracking litigation, what plaintiffs are actually alleging under Sections 631 and 638.51,…