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4 weeks ago | 
mondaq.com | Michael J. Stortz |Jake Bernstein
Earlier this month, two investors filed a putative class actionchallenging the deployment of third-party trackingtools—including the Meta Pixel, LinkedIn Insight Tag, andGoogle Analytics—on the website and mobile app of a majorasset management firm.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Michael J. Stortz |Tyler Anders |Ashley Song
A new species of website privacy litigation has taken hold in
2024, based on arcane provisions of the California Invasion of
Privacy Act (CIPA) that restrict law enforcement's use of pen
register or trap and trace devices without a court order.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Tyler Anders |Ashley Song |Michael J. Stortz
A new species of website privacy litigation has taken hold in 2024, based on arcane provisions of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) that restrict law enforcement’s use of pen register or trap and trace devices without a court order.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
klgates.com | Michael J. Stortz |Tyler Anders |Ashley Song
A new species of website privacy litigation has taken hold in 2024, based on arcane provisions of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) that restrict law enforcement’s use of pen register or trap and trace devices without a court order.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Michael J. Stortz
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN A MINUTE OR LESSIn 2023, we published 16 editions of our Litigation Minute newsletter, featuring emerging topics posing increasing and significant risks to companies. In a minute or less, here are some highlights from our 2023 Litigation Minute newsletter. Our February and March series covered ethylene oxide, an emerging chemical that has increasingly been the focus of regulatory bodies and the plaintiffs’ bar.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
mondaq.com | Michael J. Stortz
Executive Summary: The California Privacy Protection Agency has
proposed a new set of draft regulations that aim to regulate the
use of artificial intelligence and automated decision making
technology. These regulations will be discussed alongside other
draft regulations the agency has previously proposed regarding risk
assessments and cybersecurity assessments. The three sets of draft
regulations will be discussed at the agency's meeting on 8
December.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
natlawreview.com | Eric Troutman |Caroline English |Alison Andersen |Michael J. Stortz
The 15th annual Climate Week NYC was hosted by the Climate Group from Sept. 17-24 in partnership with the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly. Long before then, the world was on notice that things were going to be different this year. NASA recently announced that the summer of 2023 was Earth's hottest since global records were first kept in 1880. There is a substantial likelihood that 2023 will be the hottest year on record.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
natlawreview.com | Michael J. Stortz
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN A MINUTE OR LESSThe use of pixel technologies on websites and mobile apps in the health care field has garnered considerable attention from regulators and the plaintiffs’ class action bar. Regulators continue to focus on the extent to which such technologies can be deployed consistent with HIPAA and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guardrails.
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
natlawreview.com | Michael J. Stortz
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN A MINUTE OR LESSPlaintiffs are making new use of an old statute, the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), to challenge the use of pixel technology across a variety of websites that provide online video content. The VPPA was enacted in 1988 to protect the video viewing histories of customers of brick-and-mortar video rental providers.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
natlawreview.com | Michael J. Stortz
The rise in session replay litigation has paved the way for a new wave of website privacy lawsuits: pixel tool litigation. Plaintiffs have increasingly challenged the use of this technology, such as the Meta Pixel, on consumer-facing websites across a variety of industries—including healthcare, financial services, and online video services.
