Aaron Francis

1 month ago | mondaq.com | David Fioccola |Anna Chan |Aaron Francis |Logan Levy

2024 marked another significant year for privacy law, with newstate legislation and high-stakes litigation reshaping thelandscape.

Dec 3, 2024 | emergencyservicestimes.com | Lanna Deamer |Aaron Francis

In partnership with O&H Vehicle Conversions, Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) has successfully delivered the UK’s largest fleet of fully electric non-emergency Patient Transport Service (E-PTS) vehicles to date. The fleet of 35 vehicles, built on the Ford E-Transit platform, marks a significant step towards ambulance trusts and converters working together to deliver NHS objectives around carbon reduction.

Sep 9, 2024 | mondaq.com | Leslie Shanklin |Jeffrey Warshafsky |Aaron Francis |Anna Chan

There has been a recent surge of privacy class action lawsuits under the Arizona Telephone, Utility, and Communication Service Records Act targeting the use of common email marketing analytics technologies. Defendants are asserting standard defenses including lack of Article III standing as well as challenging the 2007 Arizona law's applicability to email tracking pixels.

Sep 5, 2024 | lexology.com | Jeffrey Warshafsky |Aaron Francis |Logan Levy

Repurposing old laws to challenge new technologies has become the new normal in the privacy space. Plaintiffs continue to bring a kaleidoscope of privacy claims against companies in the tech age, reviving laws like the California Invasion of Privacy Act of 1994 (“CIPA”), Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”), Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act, and Arizona Telephone, Utility, and Communication Service Records Act.

May 6, 2024 | lexology.com | Aaron Francis

A federal judge in the Northern District of California delivered a blow to a potential class action lawsuit against Google over its ad auction practices. The lawsuit, which allegedly involved tens of millions of Google account holders, claimed Google’s practices in its real-time bidding (RTB) auctions violated users’ privacy rights. But U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers declined to certify the class of consumers, pointing to deficiencies in the plaintiffs’ proposed class definition.