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
Businesses with a website beware: California regulators just warned that the law prohibits your website from making website users jump through hoops or otherwise confusing them as they try to exercise their privacy rights,...more
California businesses are experiencing a tsunami of demands and complaints alleging class action status that applies the well-established 1960’s California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) to the internet’s new technology. CIPA...more
Some common digital marketing techniques used by PEOs have become the recent target of data security litigation – and you should consider taking mitigating measures if your PEO deploys these strategies to put yourself in a...more
Website technologies (such as cookies, session-replay software, and other tools) are fueling a rise in privacy class actions and drawing regulators’ scrutiny. Plaintiffs’ attorneys are pursuing these claims under a variety of...more
Nearly half of all websites use cookies—small text files stored on internet users’ computers and mobile devices so web servers can track that user. Cookies come in a variety of flavors in terms of their purpose, the party...more
No. The English supervisory authority, the ICO, has stated that consent requests must be “clearly distinguishable from other matters” and that bundling consent as part of terms and conditions in impermissible. According to...more
On October 1, 2019, the European Union Court of Justice notably ruled on the type of consent required by a consumer in order to store cookies on their device. The case involved a promotional online lottery organized by...more
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) published a judgment that echoes the recent developments discussed in our August update, "New Developments in EU for Cookies and Online Tracking." This is an important...more
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) – the European Union’s equivalent to the US Supreme Court – has issued a very important ruling with respect to cookie compliance that may require re-evaluation of your cookie...more
No. The CCPA does not expressly require that a company obtain consent from a website user before placing cookies on their browser...more
French Data Protection Authority Issues Guidelines on Cookie Use - CNIL, France’s data protection authority, has released new rulesfor obtaining consumer consent under the GDPR for companies using cookies and other tracking...more
The Situation: Fashion ID, a German online clothing retailer, embedded on its website the Facebook "Like" button. When a user consults the website of Fashion ID, that user's personal data are transmitted to Facebook Ireland....more
On July 18, 2019, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) issued new guidance on the use of cookies and similar tracking technologies (collectively referred to as “cookies” below). The guidance clarifies the instances in...more
On July 29, 2019, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued its decision in FashionID (Case C-40/17), determining that website operators are jointly liable with plugin providers for data collection and transmission through...more
Data protection authorities in the UK and France have released updated guidance for website operators that use cookies on their websites. This new guidance may mandate changes to existing cookie banners and provides further...more
In the online advertising sector, achieving a successful advertising campaign often involves implementing cookies (small files stored on computers or mobile devices that contain information on the user's browsing history),...more