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In today’s increasingly digital world, connected devices are an integral part of daily life. From smart speakers and thermostats to fitness trackers and home security cameras, these devices offer convenience and automation—but they also present new privacy and security challenges. Recognizing the growing concern among consumers, Consumer Reports (CR) has undertaken comprehensive testing to evaluate…

California continues to lead the way in digital privacy. Its latest step is AB 566, the California Opt Me Out Act. This new law amends the already robust California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and specifically targets how internet browsers empower users to control their personal information.

AB 566 requires that all consumer web browsers (i.e., Chrome, Firefox, Safari…

The Attorneys General of California, Connecticut, and Colorado, along with the California Privacy Protection Agency (“the Coalition”) announced on September 9, 2025, that they are banding together as a coalition on an investigative sweep of “potential noncompliance” with Global Privacy Control (GPC), that provides businesses with “an easy-to-use browser setting or extension that automatically signals…

A California federal court has refused to dismiss a class action lawsuit alleging that Condé Nast unlawfully installed online trackers on its websites, signaling yet another instance of courts applying a decades-old privacy statute to modern data collection practices.

The lawsuit alleges that when the plaintiff visited Condé Nast-owned publications’ websites such as The New…

Video game developer Ubisoft, Inc. came out on top earlier this month in the Northern District of California when a judge dismissed, with prejudice, a class action claiming that the company’s use of third-party website pixels violated privacy laws. The judge concluded that the “issue of consent defeat[ed] all of Plaintiffs’ claims.” Lakes v. Ubisoft…

Yahoo’s ConnectID is a cookieless identity solution that allows advertisers and publishers to personalize, measure, and perform ad campaigns by leveraging first-party data and 1-to-1 consumer relationships. ConnectID uses consumer email addresses (instead of third-party tracking cookies) to produce and monetize consumer data. A lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District…

A federal district court has denied a motion by Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. (JJCI) to dismiss a second amended complaint alleging it violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by collecting and storing biometric information through its Neutrogena Skin 360 beauty app without consumers’ informed consent or knowledge. The plaintiffs also allege that…

The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) the agency responsible for implementing and enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) (collectively the CCPA), protecting consumer privacy, and ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations, has announced an investigate sweep into companies’ collection of sensitive location data. The CPPA has already…