We know that California has a lot of privacy laws, but the Shine the Light law is one of the oldest in the state, and it still catches businesses off guard because it is not about cookies or ad tech. It’s about who you share customer information with for marketing and what you must disclose when a customer
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Ally Financial Faces Class Actions Over Data Breach
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
Ally Financial Inc., a digital financial services company, faces two class action lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina related to an April 2024 data breach. The suits allege that Ally failed to secure customers’ personal information, including Social Security and auto account numbers. One lead plaintiff claims that…
To Extend or Not to Extend Consumer Rights to All
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Microsoft announced this week that it would extend the consumer rights currently given to California consumers through the California Consumer Privacy Act to all consumers—no matter where they reside.
I applaud this move (especially because I don’t reside in CA). But why should my personal information be protected differently than those who live in California?…