After a federal judge said the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) was “a total mess” in a ruling Friday, a privacy lawyer touted Judge Vince Chhabria for “call[ing] it like it is.”
A federal court ruled Monday that LinkedIn must face a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) case accusing it of deploying tracking pixels to transmit personally identifiable information (PII) of users to third parties without their knowledge and consent.
A growing number of wiretapping cases are being brought against schools that register for free analytics services without realizing the third parties are then collecting data from visitors to the school website and using it, said Fisher Phillips lawyers in a blog post Friday.
Recent innovations in AI have greatly expanded the capabilities of age estimation, said panelists during a webinar hosted by BBB National Programs Thursday. They added that while there are risks associated with the tech, new regulations offer more protections for children’s privacy and data.
European privacy professionals remain concerned President Donald Trump could nullify the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) by reversing former President Joe Biden’s executive order establishing the DPF, said Austrian activist and privacy attorney Max Schrems on Tuesday.
A federal judge dismissed a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) case against the NBA on Monday, citing the ordinary person standard from Solomon v. Flipps Media (see 2508110052) as the basis for doing so.
Tesla asked a federal court to drop a class-action complaint against the company based on the plaintiff not meeting certain provisions of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). Tesla argued Friday that the plaintiff failed to show he suffered an injury, plausibly state a claim or prove jurisdiction to bring the case.
Plaintiffs who sued Microsoft for tracking, recording and selling of users’ internet activity voluntarily dismissed their complaint Thursday. They gave no reason for their action.
Ketch announced an age-gating and video-consent product for addressing kids’ privacy law compliance and wiretapping litigation. The compliance vendor said its release of “dynamic consent” tools responds to a growing number of age-appropriate design code and other age-verification laws in the states, as well as increasing litigation against businesses from plaintiffs’ attorneys under laws like the California Invasion of Privacy Act and the federal Video Privacy Protection Act.
DOJ received industry requests this month to scrutinize the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA) and other state privacy measures as possibly burdening interstate commerce. The closely watched Maryland legislation takes effect Oct. 1. The chief privacy officer of one company that flagged MODPA told Privacy Daily that his business' main concern is the part of the law's unique data minimization requirement that bans sale of precise location data.