A Close Look at the Justice Department’s Settlement with Meta (Formerly Facebook) to Resolve Alleged Fair Housing Act Violations Arising from Meta’s Targeted Advertising System
On July 30, 2024, the New York Attorney General Letitia James announced she had completed an investigation into the tracking technology practices of popular websites, and used this to create website privacy guides on online...more
Future LLC, a magazine and website publisher and owner of the TechRadar.com website, faces allegations that it collected website visitors’ IP addresses without consent in violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act...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
While plaintiffs’ attorneys were initially focused late last year on suing health care entities for using Pixel and other tracking technology to share information about website users with social media platforms such as Meta...more
Earlier this year, a massive Twitter data breach occurred. Researchers are learning that the data breach was significantly more severe than initially reported. In the first reports, one hacker was suspected of exploiting a...more
Arizona AG Mark Brnovich reached a settlement agreement with Google to resolve allegations that the internet search and technology company unlawfully obtained users’ location data and used that information to sell...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
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), a leading advertising industry organization, has launched a CCPA Benchmark Survey to assess how companies across the digital advertising ecosystem are approaching CCPA compliance. The...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