The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals took a narrow view of what it means to be a videotape service provider under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) in an opinion Thursday in a case where a cinema shared a customer's information with Facebook. In the case, 23-3832, plaintiff Paul Osheske claimed Landmark Theater violated the VPPA.
On Monday, a judge for the U.S. District Court of Western Pennsylvania ruled that website privacy statements that disclose third-party data collection do not violate the state's wiretapping laws, throwing out a case against clothing boutique company Harriet Carter, which faced a class action lawsuit for wiretapping claims.
Connecticut Sen. James Maroney (D) took the middle ground in a private right of action (PRA) debate between Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark (D) and Mariner Strategies President Andrew Kingman at a Federal Communications Bar Association New England event Tuesday. The panelists agreed that a national comprehensive privacy law is unlikely soon.
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.
A recent decision in a Florida privacy class action lawsuit shows how older wiretapping statutes could be applied to modern pixel tracking cases, Sidley Austin attorneys said Wednesday.
NEW YORK CITY -- Advertisers must “remain vigilant” and take a privacy-first approach with the increase in global privacy regulations and enforcement heating up, Interactive Advertising Bureau Tech Lab CEO Anthony Katsur said at IAB’s Signal Shift event Thursday. To help, the IAB Tech Lab plans to launch a privacy lab this summer and is exploring privacy-compliant technologies that can help reduce advertisers’ revenue shortfalls from “signal loss,” which refers to reduced access to consumer data stemming from tech changes like privacy controls in web browsers.
Businesses must take consent seriously in 2025, privacy experts said on an Osano webinar Monday.
There are "subjective differences" in how those within the privacy team and the rest of an organization think about data protection Ethyca CEO Cillian Kieran said Wednesday during an Ethyca webinar. Terms like data mapping, data inventory and data labeling may have different interpretations depending on whether you’re talking to the privacy team, engineers or the legal team, he said.
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DOJ’s new data transfer rule fundamentally changes how American companies should assess global data compliance, particularly concerning Chinese-related business, attorneys said in interviews.