While California’s wiretapping statute, the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), tends to dominate the conversation about the recent rise in wiretapping litigation, plaintiffs are also turning to other states’ wiretapping laws to target web tracking and session-replay tools. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently held that a website visitor could
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Win for businesses—for now: Supreme Court rules in favor of Spokeo in FCRA litigation
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in Spokeo Inc. v. Robins, marking a win for businesses—for now.
In a prior post, we discussed Spokeo, Inc.’s (Spokeo) request to the Supreme Court to overturn the February 2014 ruling from the Ninth Circuit that revived the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)…
Michael’s Stores class action data breach case dismissed
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
Michael’s Stores, Inc. was dismissed from a putative data breach class action case involving the breach of 2.6 million payment cards as the plaintiffs were unable to show that they were injured as a result of the incident.
The case follows a long list of cases that hold that plaintiffs in data breach cases do…