On June 1, 2020, the California Attorney General’s office released the third and final set of CCPA proposed regulations (available here). Below, we provide information about the final proposed regulations and enforcement actions.… Continue Reading
Ever on the forefront of consumer privacy protection, California is again making news in the privacy world with the California Attorney General’s recent publication of “Privacy on the Go: Recommendations for the Mobile Ecosystem,” which includes privacy recommendations for app developers, app platform providers, mobile ad networks, makers of operating systems and mobile carriers. With … Continue Reading
On February 22, 2012, California's Attorney General, Kamala D. Harris, entered into an agreement with several leading providers of mobile devices and app stores to increase consumer privacy protection for mobile applications or "apps." Under the agreement's terms, these companies have agreed to redesign their app stores to provide a location for app developers to display their privacy policies.
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"Do I really have to obtain consent from all my customers to make a change to my privacy policy? No one else seems to be following that rule." We get this question all the time. It is understandable, given that we often watch Web-based companies expand their usage of consumer data without the affirmative consent … Continue Reading
When Flash cookies (also known as a “Local Shared Objects”) were first flagged as a privacy issue back in 2005, a few savvy companies added a disclosure about Flash cookies into their web site privacy policies. Since then, we have not heard the issue raised again. Now this sleeper issue seems to have been awakened by … Continue Reading
