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California Attorney General Targets Location Data in New Investigative Sweep

March 12, 2025 By David Keating and Hyun Jai Oh

This week California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a new investigative sweep under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). We have anticipated this sweep for some time based on the focus and the direction of a number of inquiries, investigations, and enforcement proceedings initiated by Attorney General Bonta’s office over the past 12-24 months. The […]

Filed Under: Advisories, California, CCPA, CPRA, Data Protection, Enforcement, Mobile Privacy, Online Privacy, Privacy, Privacy Litigation, Regulation Tagged With: California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), Litigation, Mobile Technologies, Privacy, Regulatory Enforcement, Tracking, US State Law

Massachusetts Top Court Torpedoes Website Analytics Wiretapping Class Action

October 30, 2024 By Donald Houser, Ashley Miller and Nicole Weeks

On October 24, 2024, in a long-awaited decision in Vita v. New England Baptist Hospital, Massachusetts’ highest court snuffed out an attempt to use the state’s 1968 Wiretap Act to impose liability on a hospital system for its use of third-party analytics technologies on its website.  The case had been closely watched by the business […]

Filed Under: Online Privacy, Privacy, Privacy Litigation Tagged With: Litigation, Privacy

Department of Justice Intervenes in Cybersecurity Qui Tam Action Against Georgia Tech

August 30, 2024 By Kim Peretti, Andrew Liebler and Andrew Rice

On Thursday, August 22, 2024, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) filed a Complaint-In-Intervention in the case of United States of America ex rel. Christopher Craig and Kyle Koza, v. Georgia Tech Research Corp. and Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (d/b/a the Georgia Institute of Technology) (United States v. Georgia […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Data Security, Enforcement, FCA, National Security, NIST Tagged With: Cybersecurity, Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), Department of Justice (DOJ), FCA, Litigation, National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)

California AG Announces $500,000 Settlement with Mobile Game App Company for Unlawful Collection and Sharing of Children’s Data

July 15, 2024 By Maki DePalo, Jennifer Everett, Dorian Simmons and Hyun Jai Oh

On June 18, 2024, California Attorney General (“AG”) Rob Bonta and Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto announced a settlement with a video game developer and publisher regarding allegations that the company violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”), the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and California’s Unfair Competition Law (the […]

Filed Under: Behavioral Advertising, California, CCPA, Children's Privacy, CPRA, Enforcement, ePrivacy, Online Privacy, Privacy, Privacy Litigation, Privacy Policy Tagged With: Behavioral Tracking, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Litigation, Regulatory Enforcement

DOJ Announces $11.3 Million in Settlements for FCA Violations

June 25, 2024 By Kristen Bartolotta and Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

On Monday, June 17, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a settlement in which two U.S. based consulting companies agreed to pay a combined total of $11.3 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by failing to comply with cybersecurity requirements in government contracts. According to the DOJ, the […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Data Security, Enforcement, FCA Tagged With: Cybersecurity, Data Protection, False Claims Act, Litigation, Regulatory Enforcement

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