8/29/2025 6:05:49 PM Washington State's New Ad Tax By Andrew Folks Starting October 1, 2025, businesses in the digital advertising and data processing sectors will need to account for a new tax. The...
8/23/2025 5:26:58 PM Another Week, Another AI Hallucination Sanction – With a Twist By Chessie da Parma All lawyers (hopefully) know by now to either not use AI for our own briefs, or if we do use it, to check any citations to make sure...
8/22/2025 1:31:20 PM Sovereignty, Security, and Speech: FTC Chair Pens Letter to Tech Companies By Andrew Folks On August 21, 2025, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson announced he had issued letters to top technology firms, warning...
8/15/2025 1:49:54 PM Texas Targets Texts By Andrew Folks Texas has overhauled its telemarketing law (Texas Business & Commerce Code § 302). Senate Bill 140, effective September 1, 2025, expands...
8/15/2025 1:20:32 PM Alert: D.C. Circuit Significantly Narrows Video Privacy Protection Act By Caren Decter Peter Devlin The D.C. Circuit just handed a far-reaching victory to companies facing claims under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) for their...
8/13/2025 8:19:08 PM AGs Target Voice Providers in Coordinated Robocall Enforcement Sweep By Holly Melton On August 12, a coalition of Attorneys General announced “Operation Robocall Roundup”—a multistate enforcement action aimed squarely at...
8/8/2025 1:35:25 AM Three Takeaways from the Blockbuster CIPA Verdict in Frasco v. Flo Health Inc. By Caren Decter Peter Devlin You’re probably aware of the recent major CIPA verdict in Frasco v. Flo Health, Case No. 21-cv-757 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 4, 2025). In this...
8/6/2025 2:53:43 PM AI Recording/Notetaking Tools Trigger Wave of Lawsuits -- Could Your Business Be At Risk? By Regina Gerhardt The last two years have seen a surge in generative AI-related litigation, including well-known lawsuits against AI companies alleging...
8/4/2025 1:35:10 PM Class Action Risks from New AI and Consumer Protection Laws By Peter Devlin With the proliferation of new AI and consumer protection laws, much of the focus has been on state attorneys general and statutory...
7/29/2025 10:33:42 PM Private Law Firms Are Quietly Powering State Privacy Enforcement By Daniel Goldberg Holly Melton A quiet shift with major consequences is underway in consumer protection enforcement. Across the country, we are seeing states file...
7/24/2025 9:08:49 PM CPPA Board Approves New Rules on Automated Decisionmaking Technology, Risk Assessments, Cybersecurity Audits, and More By Andrew Folks At its July 24, 2025 meeting, the Board of the California Privacy Protection Agency voted unanimously to finalize regulations on...
7/9/2025 8:02:28 PM Cloudflare’s New Economic Model to Address AI Web Scraping By Chloe Tepper Last week, Cloudflare released a private beta version of “pay-per-crawl,” a technical solution designed to help websites using Cloudflare...
7/9/2025 7:59:46 PM Connecticut AG Enforces Privacy Compliance Action Against TicketNetwork By Rick Borden On July 8, 2025, the Connecticut Attorney General (AG) publicly announced an enforcement action against TicketNetwork for violations of...
7/2/2025 6:17:54 AM Takeaways from the $1.55 Million CCPA Settlement with Healthline Media By Daniel Goldberg On July 1, 2025, the California Attorney General’s office announced a $1.55 million settlement with Healthline Media LLC (Healthline) for...
7/1/2025 5:17:12 PM Second Circuit "Shuts the Door" on VPPA Tracking Pixel Claims By Michael Salik Caren Decter In the wake of an influx of lawsuits alleging violations of the Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”), the Second Circuit has begun to...
6/26/2025 8:23:30 PM TCPA in Turmoil: Supreme Court Shifts Power from FCC to Courts By Andrew Folks If you thought for a moment that compliance with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act could not get more complex, the Supreme Court of...