Companies can learn practical lessons from common themes in recent enforcement actions and implementing those takeaways can help them stay ahead of evolving privacy requirements, said Quarles lawyers in a blog post Monday.
Ad Tech and Marketing Privacy
Digital advertising faces significant regulatory pressure over how it collects, shares and monetizes visitor data. Laws like the GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, and ePrivacy Directive have upended behavioral targeting, cross-site tracking, and real-time bidding. Regulators are demanding more transparency, user consent, and accountability across the online advertising ecosystem. This page covers global enforcement, litigation and policy trends affecting advertisers, platforms and data brokers.
CAMDEN, N.J. -- A federal judge raised doubts Monday that the Communications Decency Act gives data brokers immunity from New Jersey’s Daniel’s Law. In an oral argument at the U.S. District Court for New Jersey, Judge Harvey Bartle heard preemption arguments from various data brokers sued by Atlas Data Privacy under the 2020 state law, which is aimed at protecting the personal information of judicial and law enforcement officers, child protective investigators and certain family members.
Molly Crawford has been named executive vice president and head of public policy at the Interactive Advertising Bureau, IAB said in a LinkedIn post Thursday. Crawford previously was an FTC senior attorney in the Office of Congressional Relations. She was also attorney advisor and chief of staff to former FTC Chairman Joseph Simons.
Understanding the privacy and security flow of mobile operating systems should reach beyond an organization's developers as a way of enhancing transparency, Future of Privacy Forum CEO Jules Polonetsky said during a LinkedIn Live on Friday.
Meta could be more transparent about a new Instagram feature that lets users share their location with friends, a consumer privacy advocate said Friday. While another advocate also raised safety concerns, the company listed ways that the mapping feature protects privacy.
The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) filing a court petition to force Tractor Supply Co. to comply with an investigative subpoena Wednesday demonstrates its willingness to fight for privacy rights, consumer advocacy groups and other privacy professionals said.
Several court decisions in California have benefited the plaintiffs as they pursue website tracker litigation, according to two recent attorney blogs.
Data privacy attorneys from Wiley on Monday offered a rundown on the process for responding to an FTC inquiry.
Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) when it intentionally eavesdropped on users of the health app Flo Health and received sensitive data on users' menstrual cycles and reproductive health, said a federal jury decision Friday that was posted Monday. The plaintiffs alleged Flo transmitted their personal information without user consent to the social media platform and other third parties for commercial purposes.
Tesla was hit with a class-action suit Thursday alleging California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) violations through the car company's use of tracking pixels on its website without the knowledge or consent of visitors. Plaintiff Peter Dawidzik alleged that the company uses the trackers to collect detailed user information like IP addresses, pages visited, mouse movements and even geolocation based on IP, and then shares the data with third parties such as Twitter and Google.