A federal court in the Southern District of California declined to dismiss wiretapping and eavesdropping claims tied to Skullcandy Inc.’s alleged use of online trackers on its retail website, allowing the lawsuit to move forward. Plaintiff alleges that Skullcandy used tracking tools from Meta Platforms and Google to collect browser and purchase data. Jones v.
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Stalled CIPA Reform: What California’s Legislative Gridlock Means for Business Privacy Compliance
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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CIPA, originally enacted in 1967 to protect against telephone wiretapping, has recently been used to challenge how websites collect…
Cole v. Quest Diagnostics: The Third Circuit Weighs In on Pixels, Privacy, and Medical Data
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- California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), which prohibits secret
Smart-TV now regulated under new California law
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Data Privacy
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…