Steve Satterfield writes:
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed lower-court dismissals of two lawsuits under California’s “Shine the Light” law. Shine the Light (or “STL”) requires businesses that disclose customers’ personal information to third parties for those parties’ direct marketing purposes to respond to customer requests for information about such disclosures. The law also requires businesses to notify customers about the procedure for submitting a request for this information (e.g., by including the business’s contact information in a website privacy policy).
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