Today, California Attorney General Kamala Harris released her long-anticipated guidance on privacy policies for companies collecting information from California residents in a report entitled Making Your Privacy Practices Public (the “Report”). While the Report exceeds existing law in many respects, affected companies should take heed to review the report and be familiar with its contents as it […]
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Special Assistant Attorney General Speaks On Privacy Issues At Alston & Bird’s Los Angeles Office
As part of the California Attorney General’s ongoing effort to educate the business community regarding privacy issues, Jeffrey Rabkin, Special Assistant Attorney General for Law and Technology, briefed business professionals, privacy officers, in-house and outside counsel on May 13, 2014, in Alston & Bird’s Los Angeles Office. Mr. Rabkin, who serves as Special Assistant […]
Northern District Court Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Hulu as to the comScore Claims But Denies Summary Judgment as to the Facebook claims
Any company that hosts videos on their websites and uses analytics or includes a “Like” button or other social plug-in should pay very close attention to yesterday’s decision in In re Hulu Privacy Litigation Case case. As per Alston & Bird’s previous advisory, in the Hulu case, the named plaintiffs allege that Hulu wrongfully disclosed their […]
Northern District of California to Decide in the In re Hulu Privacy Litigation Whether Disclosing Anonymized Data to a Web Analytics Company and Use of the Facebook “Like” Button Violate the Video Privacy Protection Act
Any company that has a website that (a) contains videos, (b) uses a third-party analytics company to maintain metrics on page views and/or (c) allows users to “like” videos on the site should pay very close attention to the In re Hulu Privacy Litigation pending in the United States District Court of Northern California. In […]
Kim Peretti and Dominique Shelton Quoted in “Privacy Cases to Watch in 2014”
Kim Peretti and Dominique Shelton, partners in the firm’s Privacy & Data Security Group, were quoted in a Law360 article discussing the privacy cases to watch in 2014. Peretti noted that the top item on most privacy attorneys’ watch list is how judges will respond to arguments by Wyndham Worldwide Corp. and LabMD Inc., two high-profile […]