Implementing cookie banners is no longer one-size-fits-all and should be tailored to applicable state laws, said a panelist during the Privacy + Security Forum spring academy on Wednesday.
A disconnect exists between legislatures, the privacy laws they create and the litigation that results from them, said panelists during a Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA) event on privacy litigation trends Thursday. Instead, this ecosystem results in great confusion, prompting a rise in privacy law-related cases, they said.
As the litigation landscape continues shifting under privacy laws, “search bars have quietly become a Trojan horse in online data collection,” said lawyers Vivian Isaboke and Anthony Isola from Fisher Phillips in a blog Friday.
As the presence of regulators and regulations grows in the privacy landscape, states are increasing their proactive enforcement and employing technology to do so, privacy experts said during a Privado webinar Thursday.
Google was hit with a class-action complaint Monday alleging the company's education products secretly harvest mass amounts of student information and data without their or their parents’ knowledge or consent.
Testers, those who seek privacy violations with the goal of filing lawsuits, lack Article III standing to sue for pen register and wiretapping infractions under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), according to a decision from the U.S. District Court for Central California Friday.
Adobe's use of tracking tools embedded in websites to collect and then monetize vast amounts of users' personal information violates the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) and other privacy laws, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for Northern California.
The U.S. District Court for Northern California on Wednesday threw out a privacy suit against video game publisher Ubisoft on the grounds that the display of a cookie banner and creating an account that required accepting the terms of use and privacy policy meant that Ubisoft was granted consent to use pixel tracking and collect data on users.
NEW YORK CITY -- U.S. data privacy regulation is “constantly evolving,” said Daniel Rosenzweig, a privacy attorney and founder of DBR Data Privacy Solutions. Regulators are focused on whether companies are operationalizing legal requirements and honoring their public statements, he told the Interactive Advertising Bureau's Signal Shift event Thursday.
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