Privacy News

July was a big month in California privacy thanks to the Office of the Attorney General’s publication of new information about its CCPA enforcement efforts, its support for an evolving global privacy control standard, and the introduction of a consumer tool to flag possible CCPA violations. We summarize these developments for you. We also highlight another case that rejects attempts to maintain the privileged status of forensic reports created in the wake of cybersecurity attacks. Read more

CLA’s Privacy Law Section summarizes important developments in California privacy and beyond. Read more

CLA’s Privacy Law Section summarizes important developments in California privacy and beyond. Read more

CLA’s Privacy Law Section summarizes important developments in California privacy and beyond. Read more

CLA’s Privacy Law Section summarizes important developments in the privacy world and invites you to join and get involved with our new section! Read more

On March 12, 2021, a Northern District of California court ruled that Google must face lawsuit accusing it of collecting data from users who are browsing the internet in “incognito mode,” violating California privacy laws. Read more

A motion to dismiss filed by Google, LLC in an enforcement action by the Mississippi Attorney General under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) was recently denied by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. Read more

On March 17, the OAG announced the board appoints for the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA). The CPPA is a “new administrative agency charged with protecting the fundamental privacy rights of consumers over their personal information. Read more

On March 3, Google announced it is on pace to phase out its use of third-party cookies (with no alternative) for cross-site tracking. Google started down this path in 2020, announcing that Chrome—Google’s web browser--would remove support for third-party cookies by 2022, making them obsolete. Google’s plan is to substitute the one-to-one cookie-centric targeting with a privacy-first and interest-based technology that is being referred to as cohort targeting—Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoCs). Read more

On March 17, California officials announced the board appointments for the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA). Read more