4/14/2026 10:20:08 PM Maryland Legislature Passes Personalized Pricing Ban, with Narrow Scope By Andrew Folks On April 11, 2026, the Maryland legislature passed HB 895, the Protection From Predatory Pricing Act, prohibiting food retailers and...
4/14/2026 4:33:09 PM Virginia Bans Sale of Precise Geolocation Data By Andrew Folks On April 13, 2026, Governor Abigail Spanberger signed SB 338 into law, joining Oregon and Maryland in banning the sale of precise...
4/10/2026 1:35:39 PM Utah First State to Amend its App Store Accountability Act By Andrew Folks In March 2025, Utah was the first state to pass an App Store Accountability Act (ASAA), enacting SB 142. Since then, Texas, Louisiana,...
3/23/2026 2:51:17 PM New York and Washington Take On the Final Boss of Loot Boxes By Michael Ling Loot boxes have always existed in a grey area within the U.S. regulatory landscape. However, as video game industry revenues grow and...
3/22/2026 1:36:07 AM Oklahoma Enacts Comprehensive Privacy Law By Andrew Folks Not a moment too soon(er), we have our twentieth state comprehensive privacy law. Ending a nearly two-year national drought, Oklahoma...
3/5/2026 6:35:10 PM Takeaways from CalPrivacy's $375K Settlement with Ford By Andrew Folks Another day, another CCPA action. On March 5, 2026, CalPrivacy announced a $375,703 settlement with Ford Motor Company over allegations...
3/4/2026 7:28:56 PM Takeaways from CalPrivacy's $1.1M Settlement with PlayOn Sports By Andrew Folks Daniel Goldberg On March 3, 2026, the California Privacy Protection Agency announced a $1.1 million settlement with 2080 Media, Inc. d/b/a PlayOn Sports,...
2/28/2026 12:43:21 AM FTC Issues COPPA Policy Statement on Age Verification By Holly Melton On February 25, 2026, the FTC issued an enforcement policy statement under COPPA intended to encourage the use of age-verification...
2/23/2026 9:29:12 PM Courts Expand ECPA Wiretapping Liability Through Crime-Tort Exception By Caren Decter Peter Devlin Two recent decisions signal judicial receptiveness to federal wiretapping claims based on the use of website tracking technologies—with...
2/19/2026 1:06:10 AM Agentic AI Part I: What It Is and Who's Responsible When It Acts By Peter Devlin Regina Gerhardt Artificial intelligence tools are rapidly evolving from passive, user-prompted systems, into autonomous technologies capable of planning,...
2/12/2026 3:50:19 AM Takeaways from the Disney CCPA $2.75 Million Settlement By Daniel Goldberg On February 11, the California Attorney General’s Office announced a settlement with Disney for alleged violations of California privacy...
2/9/2026 5:31:18 PM Fireside chat with CalPrivacy Executive Director Tom Kemp on California privacy By Daniel Goldberg I recently moderated a fireside chat with Tom Kemp, Executive Director of the California Privacy Protection Agency (CalPrivacy), on where...
2/4/2026 5:49:17 PM Door Not “Shut” on VPPA Claims in Second Circuit When Data Is Legible By Peter Devlin Last year, the Second Circuit declared that the “door” was “effectively shut” on claims under the Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”)...
1/29/2026 9:59:06 PM Inside the New SAG-AFTRA Interactive Media Agreement: New Standards for AI and Digital Replicas By Emma Smizer Dorian Thomas Big news coming into the new year: we now have the full text of the newly ratified SAG-AFTRA Interactive Media Agreement (IMA). As a...
1/28/2026 7:54:48 PM Surveillance Pricing Headlines California's Data Privacy Day Celebration By Andrew Folks In keeping with its annual Data Privacy Day tradition, the California Attorney General's Office announced an investigative sweep into...
1/27/2026 1:58:03 AM Breaking News: Supreme Court To Consider Who is “Consumer” Under Video Privacy Protection Act By Regina Gerhardt Peter Devlin On January 26th, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari to address a circuit split on the scope of the Video Privacy Protection Act...