Malathi Nayak reports: On International Data Privacy Day last year, an email popped into Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai’s inbox from Google’s marketing chief Lorraine Twohill full of ideas on gaining user trust. “Make Incognito Mode truly private,” she wrote in a bullet point. “We are limited in how strongly we can market Incognito because…
Colorado Attorney General Releases Draft Colorado Privacy Act Rules
Lindsey Tonsager, Jayne Ponder, and Alexandra Scott of Covington and Burling write: On October 10, 2022 the draft rules implementing the Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”) were officially published in the Colorado Register. Written comments on the draft rules are due by November 7, 2022. The CPA draft rules share some similarities with the draft rules set forth…
Google to Pay $85 Million to Settle Arizona Geolocation Tracking Privacy Suit
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On October 3, 2022, Google LLC (“Google”) agreed to pay the State of Arizona $85 million to settle a consumer privacy lawsuit that alleged the company surreptitiously collected consumers’ geolocation data on smartphones even after users disabled location tracking. Arizona’s lawsuit followed a 2018 Associated Press article that alleged Google continued…
Papa John’s sued for ‘wiretap’ spying on website mouse clicks, keystrokes
Brandon Vigliarolo reports: Papa John’s is being sued by a customer – not for its pizza but for allegedly breaking the US Wiretap Act by snooping on the way he browsed the pie-slinger’s website. The titan of greasy wheels is accused of falling foul of wiretapping rules by using so-called session replay software on its…