Oliver Kiefer

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...

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...

For years, TCPA compliance has largely meant following the statute as interpreted by FCC rules and regulations. That is no longer enough. Since the Supreme Court scrapped Chevron deference in Loper Bright and then held in McLaughlin that district courts...

On Monday, January 26, 2026, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that will likely resolve the current circuit split on whether email newsletter subscribers are considered “consumers” for purposes of the Video Privacy...