Perhaps no use case better exemplifies the rapidly evolving privacy law landscape in the US than the legal framework surrounding companies’ use of cookies, pixels, and other web trackers. Gone are the ...

Macy's, Lowes and Dell are among popular U.S. online retailers with the most web trackers gathering personal information on visitors, while Walmart, Apple and Nike were among those with the fewest, ...

Three recent federal court cases consider whether the use of third party trackers embedded in websites can be the basis of class action lawsuits alleging violations of statutes enacted before the ...

Summary: For the past decade, healthcare teams have used web trackers that enable digital analytics and advertising without regard for HIPAA compliance. That all changed in late 2022 with the new web ...

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Hospitals and healthcare organizations have come under fire for their use of third-party web tracking technologies and analytics software like Facebook parent company Meta’s Pixel tracker. These tech ...

A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ruled that guidance issued by the Biden administration that prohibits the use of third-party online tracking technologies on hospitals' public-facing web pages was ...

WASHINGTON—More than two dozen state governments have placed web-tracking code made by TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd. on official websites, according to a new report from a cybersecurity company, ...

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On October 8, 2025, Governor Newsom signed the California Opt Me Out Act (the “Act”) into law, which expands on the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). Most notably, the Act mandates that ...

SAN FRANCISCO AP - Angry online subscribers who had their Web surfing habits tracked in detail are suing a Silicon Valley startup that created the technology and six Internet service providers that ...