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Is a Web Bug a Wiretap?

In Vita v. New England Baptist Hosp., __ Mass __, __ N.E.3d __, 2024 WL 4558621 (Mass. Oct. 24, 2024), the court held that the Massachusetts wiretap statute does not criminalize interception of web browsing and sale of the...more

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Online Retailers Face Lawsuits for IP Address Collection During Transactions Under The Song Beverly Act

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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

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Litigation Grows Around Website Technologies, With Focus on Sensitive Data

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Data privacy-related lawsuits have skyrocketed in recent years. Federal courts saw over 900 data privacy dockets in 2020 – but witnessed a surge to 1,767 dockets in 2023. At the halfway point in 2024, federal court data...more

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California Trap & Trace Class Actions on the Rise in the Age of Website Trackers

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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: November 2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 11 (November, 2023) The American Hospital Association (AHA) is urging federal lawmakers to intervene with the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) so that hospitals and health systems can...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2023 #3

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CYBERSECURITY - Chick-Fil-A Sued for Sharing Data through Meta Pixel - While plaintiffs’ attorneys were initially focused late last year on suing health care entities for using Pixel and other tracking technology to share...more

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New York Sen. Gillibrand Proposes Data Protection Agency to Regulate Collection, Sharing of Personal Information

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A cynical online commenter once wrote this about the data collection practices of the online news site Digg: “If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.” This is true of almost...more

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International Data Protection Update – First Quarter 2021

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This quarterly update highlights some of the international data protection issues that have caught our attention, and the attention of our clients, in the past three months....more

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Privacy and Data Security Client Alert | January 2019

Going Deep on the California Consumer Privacy Act - The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has been called the beginning of America’s GDPR. As the most comprehensive privacy law in the United States, entities doing...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Litigation Alert: Eleventh Circuit Expands Standing to Bring Video Privacy Protection Act Actions But Also Limits Their Scope

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Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that allegations that personally identifiable information was disclosed without consent in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act were sufficient to...more

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Vizio and Google Data Privacy Class Actions Illustrate Risks of Data Collection – And Defensive Value of Robust Disclosures

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Two recent developments in data privacy litigation highlight the continuing challenges to companies that collect internet usage information without clearly disclosing the manner and method in which they are doing so to users....more

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Three Trending Topics in IoT: Privacy, Security, and Fog Computing

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Cisco has estimated that there will be 50 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to the Internet by the year 2020. IoT has been a buzzword over the past couple of years. However, the buzz surrounding IoT in the...more

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FTC Takes Action Against Retail Tracking Start-Up Nomi Technologies

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On Thursday, April 23, the FTC settled deception charges against start-up Nomi Technologies, Inc. related to Nomi’s in-store, sensor-based, tracking technology.1 This is the first FTC enforcement action against emerging...more

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