In long-awaited news, Governor Newsom has signed SB 690, meaning that any Section 638.51 claims that were filed against a company after January 1, 2025 and based on conduct occurring on an internet website or...

For the past several years, most of the action in website-tracking litigation under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) has occurred on motions to dismiss. Plaintiffs have alleged that pixels, cookies, session-replay tools, and...

For the past two years, plaintiffs’ lawyers have increasingly relied on an unlikely provision of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) to target ordinary website technologies. Today, the Assembly and Senate passed an amended...

AI products need data to improve, and the easiest data to obtain is what’s already flowing through a product — things like customer calls, chat logs, or meeting transcripts. But collecting and training on that...

Generative AI is quickly changing the economics of litigation. Privacy litigation targeting websites and connected mobile apps has long involved common technologies: cookies, pixels, analytics scripts, session-replay tools, chat widgets, embedded search tools, and advertising...

Rather than waiting for AI-specific legislation, plaintiffs are trying to fit AI-related conduct into existing statutes, many containing statutory damages provisions. As a result, companies training, deploying, and monetizing AI systems are facing a heightened...