Leveraging Knowledge to Manage Your Data Risks
The 2025 California legislative session ended without passing critical reforms to the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), leaving businesses vulnerable and scrambling to manage escalating compliance challenges and legal exposure on their own.
Why Was Reform Needed?
CIPA, originally enacted in 1967 to protect against telephone wiretapping, has recently been used to challenge how websites collect…
Californians are now protected from smart-TV eavesdropping under new law, Assembly Bill 1116, which requires that smart-TV manufacturers ensure that voice-recognition features will not be enabled without consumer consent, and bars them from recording conversations for advertising purposes. For those smart-TV manufacturers that fail to implement privacy safeguards in accordance with this new law, the…
