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...

How did it come to this? Last year you got a new cookie consent management platform (CMP), and you worked with your web team to implement it. You even took a conservative approach and tried...

Many businesses have opted to deploy website cookie banners in response to the barrage of litigation under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”). That same mitigation measure, however, is increasingly the target of a...

The surge of lawsuits under Section 638.51 of California’s Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA)—which governs “pen registers” and “trap and trace devices”—has burdened online businesses over the past two years. Hundreds, if not thousands, of...

On February 10, 2025, the Northern District of California denied Google’s motion to dismiss in Ambriz et al. v. Google LLC, a putative class action alleging that Google Cloud Contact Center AI (“GCCCAI”) violated the California...

Businesses continue to be hit with wiretapping and other privacy lawsuits concerning their use of relatively common technologies on their websites and apps. Some of these lawsuits recycle old claims while others test new theories; some...