On October 24, 2024, in a long-awaited decision in Vita v. New England Baptist Hospital, Massachusetts’ highest court snuffed out an attempt to use the state’s 1968 Wiretap Act to impose liability on a hospital system for its use of third-party analytics technologies on its website. The case had been closely watched by the business […]
Privacy & Cybersecurity Litigation
New York AG Seeks Comments on Rulemaking for Minors’ Online Protection Laws
On August 1, 2024, New York Attorney General (“AG”) Letitia James issued two advanced notices of proposed rulemaking (“ANPRs”) for the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act (the “SAFE Act”) and the Child Data Protection Act (the “CDPA”), both of which New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law on June 20, 2024. […]
Senate Passes Bill for Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act
On July 30, 2024, in a 91-3 vote, the U.S. Senate passed the bill for the Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act (the “Bill”). The Bill, which combines the bills for the Kids Online Safety Act (“KOSA”) and the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (“CTOPPA”), aims to expand online safety and privacy protections […]
California AG Announces $500,000 Settlement with Mobile Game App Company for Unlawful Collection and Sharing of Children’s Data
On June 18, 2024, California Attorney General (“AG”) Rob Bonta and Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto announced a settlement with a video game developer and publisher regarding allegations that the company violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”), the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and California’s Unfair Competition Law (the […]
Data Breach Notification Requirements under the Safeguards Rule Now in Effect
For years, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) has required financial institutions to maintain reasonable safeguards for consumer data, but has only had limited breach-reporting requirements. To the extent financial institutions were subject to breach-reporting obligations, these were set by non-GLBA legislation, such as state law, or by relatively narrow incident-reporting rules under Interagency Guidelines overseen by […]