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
In the latest iteration of privacy claims, California plaintiffs have begun filing lawsuits against online retailers using online tracking technologies to collect IP addresses under a new theory—plaintiffs allege such...more
As consumer habits evolve, new media channels emerge. Before the internet, brand media budgets were split between traditional media like print newspapers and magazines, radio, television, and out-of-home billboards....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
From October 3rd to 5th in Boston, the Attorney General Alliance (AGA) held a series of working group meetings focused on topics uppermost in the minds of state AGs: cybersecurity, organized retail crime (ORC) and cannabis....more
The case of Popa v. Harriet Carter Gifts, Inc. “began with a quest for pet stairs.” Plaintiff Ashley Popa searched Harriet Carter Gifts’ website, added pet stairs to her cart, but never completed the purchase. During her...more
Throughout the pandemic, retailers had to act swiftly to adapt to stay-at-home orders and social distancing guidelines. This meant making the most of the technologies available and experimenting with new technologies — both...more
Digging deeper into Google’s announcement that “its ad tools would no longer support individual tracking of users across websites starting in 2022,” a move that—with the site’s previously unveiled plans to stop supporting...more
Plaintiffs' firms routinely attempt to assert old laws in new ways. One of the latest trends is the use of federal and state anti-wiretap laws as a vehicle to sue software developers and businesses for the use of ubiquitous...more
Three quarters of retailers that deploy a significant number of third party behavioral advertising cookies on their websites do not utilize a cookie notice. The 25% of retailers that do deploy a cookie notice are split in...more
Retailers are divided about whether the use of third party behavioral advertising cookies do, or do not, constitute the sale of personal information. One in four retailers (28%) utilize behavioral advertising cookies and take...more
Yes. As the following chart indicates, there is a wide disparity between the quantity of third party behavioral advertising cookies used by retailers...more
Our Survey of the Retail Industry’s Privacy Practices discloses that 25 percent of U.S. retailers have decided to block European visitors from reaching their websites. There are two situations in which the GDPR purports to...more
Americans, but only slightly. United States companies consider several strategies for mitigating the risk that a supervisory authority might determine that they are subject to the GDPR (or the ePrivacy Directive)....more
5% There are two situations in which the GDPR purports to apply extraterritorially to companies that have no contact to the European Union. The first situation, described in Article 3(2)(a) of the GDPR, occurs when a...more
With the enactment of the European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA”), retailers have been forced to cope with a shifting privacy landscape that impacts the data that...more
Welcome to our latest edition of Retail Rap. From influencer marketing to launching a startup and ensuring digital advertising complies with the latest regulations, retail issues are making news—and presenting legal...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