Website Owner Liability, Class Action, Invasion of Privacy

Pen Register and Trap and Trace Claims: The Latest Wave of CIPA Litigation

K&L Gates LLP on 3/6/2024

A new species of website privacy litigation has taken hold in 2024, based on arcane provisions of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) that restrict law enforcement’s use of pen register or trap and trace devices...more

The Next Chapter of CIPA Litigation: The Pen Register and Trap and Trace Device

BakerHostetler on 1/18/2024

For the past two years, hundreds of class action lawsuits alleging violations of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) have plagued California retailers and consumer-facing service providers. These lawsuits claim,...more

Internet Privacy Litigation Continues to Create Uncertainty for Websites Using Third-Party Technology while Expanding to More...

Goodwin on 10/19/2023

The Authors previously published the below client alert on June 8, 2023, analyzing privacy litigation under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) and other wiretap statutes in Pennsylvania and Maryland. We provide...more

PEO Pointers – Are You Using Chatbots or Pixels on Your Website? Consider Mitigating Measures to Avoid Wiretapping Litigation

Fisher Phillips on 5/11/2023

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

California Rulings Prompt Wave of Website Wiretapping Claims

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. on 2/9/2023

If your company has a website and does not disclose the use of session replay software or that the chats on its website are being transcribed, please read this important alert. ...more

Lead Generation Compliance Attorney on How Use of Technologies to Track Web Session Data May Violate Law

Hinch Newman LLP on 8/3/2022

Attention Lead Generators. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that use of certain technologies on a websites in order to track and record web session data before obtaining affirmative consent may be a...more