Last week, we wrote about the newly enacted New Jersey data broker law. On July 10, 2026, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Division of Consumer Affairs published an alert clarifying that covered data brokers and data collectors will not need to register or pay registration fees until the Division launches the required public registry, which
FCC and 49 State Attorneys General Dial Up Attention on Robocall Compliance
On July 8, 2026, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Enforcement Bureau entered into a consent decree with Voximplant, Inc., a voice and video call platform, to resolve an investigation into whether the company failed to comply with the FCC’s robocall mitigation rules. The FCC’s robocall mitigation framework is designed to make the voice calling ecosystem
Garden State Plants New Data Broker Rule
On June 30, 2026, New Jersey’s Governor Mikie Sherrill signed a new data broker law, largely effective immediately, that adds significant new obligations for businesses involved in personal data sales. The law reaches traditional data brokers that collect or purchase personal data about consumers with whom they do not have a direct relationship and then
Message Received: PA Courts Say TCPA Do-Not-Call Rules Apply to Text Messages
On June 17, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denied Brown-Daub Chevrolet of Nazareth’s motion to dismiss a putative class action alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (TCPA) National Do Not Call Registry (DNCR) provisions. In Pero v. Brown-Daub Chevrolet of Nazareth (E.D. Pa. June 17, 2026), the
Honey, Where’s the Harm?
A recent court order from the Northern District of California offers a useful reminder that not every alleged collection of browsing data will support an invasion-of-privacy claim. In Campbell v. Honey Science, LLC (N.D. Cal. June 15, 2026), the plaintiffs alleged that PayPal’s Honey browser extension promised to search for and apply the “best” coupons
Doxim Data Breach Settlement Underscores Third-Party Data Security Risk
On May 5, 2026, the parties in In re Doxim, Inc. Data Security Incident Litigation (E.D. Mich. June 13, 2024), filed a proposed $5.5 million class action settlement arising from a cyber incident involving Doxim, a software provider serving credit unions, wealth management service providers, and banking sectors in the United States and Canada.
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Senate Bill 5 and the New Compliance Frontier for AI in Connecticut
On May 27, 2026, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed Senate Bill 5 (“the Bill”) into law, creating a broad framework for artificial intelligence oversight in the state. The Bill reaches beyond any single category of AI use and touches consumer disclosures, employment tools, AI companions, synthetic media, workforce issues, state agency AI use, and privacy-related
Verification Texts Are Not Automatically TCPA Ads, New Jersey Court Holds
On May 20, 2026, in Zelma v. Wonder Group Inc. (D.N.J. May 20, 2026), a federal court in New Jersey largely dismissed Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) claims against food-tech company Wonder Group Inc. (Wonder), holding that two bare verification-code text messages were not “telephone solicitations” or “unsolicited advertisements.”
The TCPA regulates certain calls and
No Easy Walkaway: Skechers Must Face Email Marketing Claims
The latest ruling in Liss v. Skechers USA Inc., No. 3:25-CV-05861-DGE, 2026 WL 1392327 (W.D. Wash. May 19, 2026), keeps alive a proposed Washington class action challenging promotional email subject lines that allegedly used deadline-driven language to create artificial urgency around discounts. The plaintiffs alleged that Skechers sent commercial emails to Washington consumers with subject
FTC’s TAKE IT DOWN Act Stakeholder Letter Signals Heightened Compliance Priority
The spread of AI generated intimate imagery has turned what was already a serious online safety issue into a fast- moving platform governance problem. The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) latest stakeholder letter makes clear that covered platforms will be expected to have systems in place before enforcement begins. This week, the FTC sent a stakeholder