The federal district court in the Southern District of Idaho denied Kochava’s second attempt to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission’s allegations that the data broker aggregated and sold large amounts of sensitive consumer data in violation of...

Adding to the growing number of courts that have struck down the procedures that Google and law enforcement have put in place for “geofence warrants,” a California trial court recently suppressed evidence obtained via such a...

The FTC sued data broker Kochava, Inc. in federal district court, alleging their sale and distribution of consumer geolocation data constitutes an unfair act or practice. In the complaint, the FTC takes issue with Kochava’s model of...

Hawai’i Governor David Ige (D) has vetoed HB702 HD1 SD2, which would have restricted the sale of certain location information. The governor explained that the “lack of clarity in this bill as currently drafted will lead to...

Without mentioning, much less examining, the inconsistent outcomes and rationales of numerous other courts to have confronted the issue (see here here and here for our analysis of some of those decisions), the Sixth Circuit...

Precise geolocation data is increasingly being used to “geo-target” consumers’ devices, to serve ads relevant to either where they are at a given moment, or where they tend to be during a given time frame....

“What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” If you’ve ever had to rely on that time-honored principle, you might understand the thinking behind the EU cross-border data transfer restrictions that can stop international deals in...

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals further splintered the jurisprudence surrounding government access to historical cell site location records, holding that such requests always constitute a Fourth Amendment search requiring a warrant. The case arose...

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas recently found that a defendant has no reasonable expectation of privacy in an image’s metadata, including the GPS coordinates, even if the defendant did not...

On November 26, 2013, New Jersey residents and visitors will be able to play poker and an array of other casino games online.  As we’ve reported before, the New Jersey legislature  passed the New Jersey Internet...