5/6/2025 11:53:11 PM Second Circuit Narrows VPPA’s Scope in Solomon v. Flipps Media, Inc. By Michael Salik Caren Decter In recent years, there has been a wave of lawsuits alleging violations of the Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”), targeting content...
5/6/2025 5:57:52 PM Suit Settled: CPPA Brings Enforcement Against Menswear Company By Maria Nava Andrew Folks On May 6, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency announced its second enforcement action over violations of the California...
5/5/2025 2:44:39 AM Apple violated U.S. court order, ending Apple’s 27% commission on external purchases By Emma Smizer As the saying goes, justice delayed is justice denied. Or perhaps more accurately, a bad apple spoils the bunch. On April 30, 2025,...
4/21/2025 6:24:53 PM Countdown to Compliance Begins on FTC's New COPPA Rule By Andrew Folks Maria Nava On April 22, 2025 — just in time for Commissioner Andrew Ferguson’s keynote at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit — the Federal Trade...
4/3/2025 10:01:54 PM Microsoft’s New Cookie Consent Requirement Coming May 5, 2025 By Bram Schumer Website owners, even those operating simple sites that don’t proactively advertise, should be aware of an important change coming on May...
4/3/2025 6:02:18 PM Genetic Promises Under the Microscope: FTC Weighs in on 23andMe Bankruptcy By Andrew Folks As 23andMe navigates bankruptcy proceedings, the fate of 15 million users' genetic information hangs in the balance. In a March 31, 2025...
3/28/2025 7:54:35 PM New York Attorney General Reaches Settlement with Saturn Technologies Over School Calendar and Social App By Maria Nava On March 7, 2025, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced an Assurance of Discontinuance with Saturn Technologies (“Saturn”)...
3/24/2025 11:36:40 PM Virginia Governor Vetoes High-Risk AI Bill By Andrew Folks Governor Glenn Youngkin of Virginia vetoed House Bill 2094, the High-Risk Artificial Intelligence Developer and Deployer Act, just hours...
3/11/2025 10:35:21 AM Pin Drop: California AG Takes Aim at Location Data Practices By Andrew Folks On March 10, 2025, the California Attorney General’s Office announced an ongoing investigative sweep into the location data practices of...
3/7/2025 6:02:50 PM App to No Good? Novel App Store Age Verification Bill Passes Utah Legislature By Andrew Folks In the online safety conversation, assigning responsibility for verifying a user’s age has been a protracted study in buck passing....
3/5/2025 1:17:20 AM X'ed Out: California Social Media Transparency Law Partially Enjoined for First Amendment Violations By Emma Smizer On Tuesday, March 4, 2025, a California federal court entered its final judgment regarding X's lawsuit against the landmark California...
2/27/2025 1:03:37 AM S.D.N.Y. Deals A Blow To Website Tracking Litigation By Caren Decter The Southern District of New York is becoming a less favorable venue for serial plaintiffs asserting that website tracking technologies...
2/25/2025 9:48:37 PM Recent California State Court Wins for Defendants in Website Tracking Cases By Regina Gerhardt In the past month, California judges have issued encouraging decisions for defendants in cases asserting that website tracking...
2/24/2025 10:07:08 PM FTC Takes Aim at Tech Platform Content Moderation By Andrew Folks The Federal Trade Commission under new Chair Andrew Ferguson is wasting little time scrutinizing how technology platforms moderate...
2/22/2025 8:17:14 PM FTC Releases Initial Findings On Surveillance Pricing Study By Terri Seligman As I blogged about back in August, the FTC issued orders under its Section 6(b) authority to several companies that offer “surveillance...
2/21/2025 10:15:20 PM Bankrupt but Not Off the Hook: CPPA Takes a $46,000 Byte Out of National Public Data By Bram Schumer The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) has launched an enforcement action against Jerico Pictures, Inc., doing business as...