Sheri Porath Rockwell

Oct 29, 2024 | lexology.com | Amy P. Lally |Jack Pirozzolo |Ian Ross |Colleen Brown |Sheri Porath Rockwell |Kseniya K. Belysheva

For the past few years, hundreds of companies have been caught in a wave of privacy class actions relying on decades-old wiretapping laws to attack modern website technologies and business tools. Last week, Massachusetts’s highest court engaged in a thorough assessment of that state’s wiretap law and rejected plaintiff’s argument that commonly used website advertising and analytical tools intercepted “communications” in violation of the law.

Jan 8, 2024 | datamatters.sidley.com | Maureen Gorsen |Amy P. Lally |Sheri Porath Rockwell

Join our 7th annual Trend Watch webinar to learn how tactical decision-making can help you conquer California’s challenging legal environment. Our focus areas will include:New developments in California privacy lawProp. 65 by the numbersNeed-to-know environmental law changesSIDLEY SPEAKERSMaureen F. Gorsen, PartnerAmy P. Lally, PartnerSheri Porath Rockwell, CounselCLE credit is pending for this program.

Dec 14, 2023 | datamatters.sidley.com | Sheri Porath Rockwell |Ernesto R. Claeyssen

In Part Four of the OneTrust DataGuidance Insight articles on state data privacy laws, Sidley lawyers Sheri Porath Rockwell and Ernesto Claeyssen discuss data subject rights and privacy policy requirements under the patchwork of 13 U.S. states’ comprehensive data privacy laws that have been passed. Sheri and Ernesto confirm that data subject rights and privacy policy requirements under these laws are similar in many respects, but also highlight important differences between the laws.

Dec 1, 2023 | datamatters.sidley.com | Sheri Porath Rockwell

The US state data privacy landscape is fast evolving into a patchwork of broad state privacy laws that govern for-profit and non-profit entities that meet certain threshold criteria and the personal information of residents in each of those states.

Jul 13, 2023 | lexology.com | Colleen Brown |Sheri Porath Rockwell |Carly Owens |Garrett Lance |Stephanie Lim

On May 18, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued its 2023 Policy Statement on Biometric Information and Section 5 of the FTC Act (the “Policy Statement”) describing the agency’s concerns about these fast-proliferating technologies and articulating a set of compliance obligations for businesses that develop or use biometric technologies.