Category: Internet Law

The California Attorney General released another set of proposed amendments to the regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). See information page here. These amendments are expected to go into effect in early 2021. These new regulations will take effect and apply to the CCPA as currently enacted and will also apply to Proposition […]

On November 3, 2020, California voters approved what was commonly called Proposition 24 (“Prop 24”). Prop 24 was a ballot initiative intended to amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). See full text here. Prop 24 was approved by more than 56% of the voters and will soon become law. Prop 24 will become effective […]

Amazon Go Stores recently announced a new biometric technology making it even easier for customers to come, shop, and go at these retail outlets. See news report here. The technology involves palm geometry and blood vessel scanning. Like fingerprints, retinal patterns and face geometry, each person’s blood vessel configuration is unique and, once scanned and […]

One of the “new normals” in our COVID-19 pandemic employment world is the ever more common use of employee teleconferences. This is one of the many innovations that has resulted from a huge increase in remote working and remote workers. As a result, businesses must begin establishing rules, procedures, and protocols for these types of […]

Website accessibility for the visually impaired has been one of the thornier legal issues that has arisen over the last decade or so. This is because the federal Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”) requires that all places of “public accommodation” be accessible to those with disabilities. However, it was a debatable legal question about whether […]

The City of Portland, Oregon, just banned the use of facial recognition technology by private businesses and individuals. See Popular Mechanics news report here. Portland previously banned use of facial recognition by law enforcement and city agencies. However, now all private entities are prohibited from using facial recognition software and technology anywhere in the City […]

Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed Assembly Bill (“AB”) 713 which amends the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). See text of AB 713 here. The CCPA has now been amended at least eight times and businesses should expect continued changes in the coming years. AB 713 makes several amendments to the CCPA the most important of […]

Capital One, N.A., and Capital One Bank (USA), N.A. (“Capital One”) were recently fined $80 million for a 2019 data breach and data security failures that contributed to the data breach. See Reuters report here. The result is in line with many governmental investigations and fines that have been imposed for cybersecurity failures over the […]

On August 20, 2020, the Department of Justice announced that a criminal complaint was filed against the former Chief Security Officer for Uber Technologies, Inc., related to an alleged concealment of a data breach/hack in 2016. See news report here. The criminal complaint charged the Security Officer with two counts — obstruction of justice and […]

A California federal court has recently ruled that “piggybacking” on an Amazon product listing — where the piggybacking takes the buyer to a different but similar product —  is actionable trademark infringement. See Lavco Solutions, Inc. v. Biztracker Systems of St. John, LLC, Case No. 2:20-cv-03286-VAP-PLAx (US Dist. C.D. Cal. August 25, 2020). In this […]