Universal Consent: Building Beyond Cookie Consent
Data Dividend: What is Personal Data Worth?
Privacy Litigation Trends: Meta Pixels, Cookie Opt-Out, and Sale of Data
Data Revolution: How U.S. Privacy Laws Change the Way Data Should be Managed by Retail and Tech Industries
Fashion Counsel: Privacy in the Retail Fashion Industry
E8: Interview with Cookiebot CEO on Technical Solutions to GDPR Readiness
Would you like some milk with those website cookies? We know the common privacy joke. However, website cookies and online tracking technologies (collectively, “cookies”) are increasingly no joking manner as they can create...more
On July 15, 2024, the Office of the New York State Attorney General (OAG) announced new guidance regarding the use of cookies, tags, and other online user information tracking tools. Although New York does not yet have a...more
New York Attorney General Letitia James recently released guidance for businesses and consumers about website tracking technologies. The consumer guide provided examples of common cookies, tracking technologies, and how...more
Keypoint: Although New York lacks a consumer data privacy law, the New York Attorney General’s office has taken the position that New York’s consumer protection laws require entities to implement certain tracking technology...more
If you are participating in the digital advertising ecosystem, you likely are hearing a lot about pixels, tags, scripts and SDKs lately. But the terminology can be confusing, and terms are not always used consistently, making...more
In the latest example of privacy laws being stretched to fit new digital technologies, plaintiffs have begun to file a flurry of suits alleging that retailers are using pen register and trap-and-trace software to illegally...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
Article 5(3) of the EU ePrivacy Directive (ePD) requires consent for tracking cookies (unless exceptions apply). Although this rule is best known as the reason behind ‘cookie’ banners, it is technology neutral and applies to...more
The use of online tracking technologies for online behavioral advertising, analytics and related activities has come under increasing scrutiny by regulators in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere. The obligations under various...more
California was the first US state with a comprehensive privacy law the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), 4 more states followed with omnibus privacy laws effective this year and state legislatures passed 8 more this...more
Enacted in in 1988 after Judge Robert Bork’s video rental history was leaked by a store clerk and published in a newspaper profile about the Supreme Court nominee, the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) was the result of...more
Welcome to the third installment in our eight-part series preparing you for the post-cookie world. In our first post, we provided a deep dive into third-party cookies for a baseline understanding of the technology and the...more
As we face mounting data breaches and fears over loss of privacy, the article notes that, “as the public opinion evolves and increasingly concludes that merely possessing private data puts consumers at risk, consumers may...more
On February 16, 2018, the Brussels Court of First Instance rendered a judgment in proceedings brought by the Belgian Privacy Commission’s against Facebook. The case forms one part of two-tiered litigation brought by the...more
The Belgian data protection authority has lost its legal battle with Facebook over whether the social network could track the online activities of non-Facebook users in Belgium who visit Facebook pages....more