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Your Online Business Could Be the Next Target for Costly Data Privacy Lawsuits

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If your business operates online and uses common marketing tools, your business is at risk of being targeted for lawsuits under pre-internet wiretapping and video rental privacy laws. It is critical to address and mitigate...more

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Web Trackers Pose New Regulatory, Legal Headaches for Companies

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Perhaps no use case better exemplifies the rapidly evolving privacy law landscape in the US than the legal framework surrounding companies’ use of cookies, pixels, and other web trackers. Gone are the days where marketing...more

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U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: August 2024

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Keypoint: California district courts continue to split over whether “knowledge” is required to plead liability under Section 631(a)’s fourth prong while two decisions show courts taking different approaches to VPPA claims at...more

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U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: July 2024

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Keypoint: Courts have started to issue Pixel-based wiretapping decisions, the Seventh Circuit weighs in on when a manufacturer can be forced to pay arbitration fees, and three courts showed different approaches to dismissing...more

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U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: June 2024

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Keypoint: Courts reject personal jurisdiction arguments and suggest the Shopify decision will be overturned; Courts continue to show differing approaches to VPPA claims at the pleading stage with a large VPPA class action...more

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U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: May 2024

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Keypoint: The Central District of California issued several wiretapping decisions in May while two decisions on the VPPA illustrate how claims fail or succeed at the pleading stage. Welcome to the fourteenth installment in...more

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Paul Hastings Hosts Panel on Litigation Trends and Risk Management

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On May 9, 2024, Paul Hastings participated in a panel on litigation trends and risk management at this spring’s Privacy+Security Forum. Panelists included Carter Simpson (Partner, Paul Hastings) and Matt Gardner (Senior...more

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U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: April 2024

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Keypoint: The Central District of California issues a major victory for website owners facing CIPA-arbitration demands, two decisions address whether a plaintiff consented as a defense to wiretapping claims, three courts in...more

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U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: February 2024

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Keypoint: Courts continue to issue conflicting decisions in wiretapping cases while one court has expanded who may be considered a “video tape service provider” under the VPPA. Welcome to the eleventh installment in our...more

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Cookies, Pixels, Tags, Scripts, SDKs: What Are They Really, and What’s All the Fuss About?

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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

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U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: January 2024

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Keypoint: Courts resolved six motions to dismiss wiretapping claims based on session replay technology in January, while two VPPA decisions highlight balance struck by courts. A new privacy litigation theory based on “pen...more

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U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: December 2023

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Welcome to the ninth installment in our monthly data privacy litigation report, which we are releasing just after the New Year. We prepare these reports to provide updates on how courts in the United States have handled...more

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Privacy Litigation Trends - Back to the Future

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Plaintiffs look to the past to take action against modern web tracking - As states rapidly enact new consumer privacy legislation, businesses have been working tirelessly to comply with extensive new data protection...more

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U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: September 2023

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Keypoint: The past two months have seen many courts dismiss privacy claims as judges appear to be more critical of plaintiffs’ theories while other judges have allowed cases to proceed past the motion to dismiss stage....more

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U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: June 2023

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Keypoint: June 2023 maintained a trend of mostly favorable outcomes for defendants as courts continue to grant motions to dismiss in session replay and VPPA cases. This is the fifth installment in our monthly data privacy...more

Lathrop GPM

2022 Legal Guide to Privacy and Data Security

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Facial recognition technology, drones the size of a butterfly, secure microchips replacing magnetic stripes on credit cards, sensors the size of a grain of sand swallowed by patients that transmit data directly to the...more

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