On June 3, 2025, the California Senate unanimously passed Senate Bill 690 (SB 690), a bill that seeks to add a “commercial business purposes” exception to the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA).
After multiple readings on the Senate floor, SB 690 passed as amended, and will now proceed to the California State Assembly. SB 690
This post was originally published to Seyfarth’s Global Privacy Watch blog.
California Senate Bill 690 (SB 690), introduced by Senator Anna Caballero, is continuing to proceed through the California state legislative process. The proposed bill would amend the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) by adding an exception to the statute which has the
We are pleased to share that Seyfarth attorneys Paul Yovanic, Jason Priebe, Ada Dolph, and Michael Jacobsen co-authored the “USA – Illinois: Trends & Developments” section in the recently released Chambers Data Protection & Privacy Global Practice Guide 2025. This highly regarded publication provides timely insights and analysis on key developments in data privacy
We are excited to share the 2025 edition of our Commercial Litigation Outlook, offering key insights into the evolving legal landscape.
This year’s Outlook explores anticipated shifts under the second Trump Administration, including regulatory changes, agency governance shifts, and the growing role of AI in legal proceedings. AI-related challenges, such as deepfakes and data privacy
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Join us for an informative program that offers valuable insights into the evolving landscape of privacy law in Illinois. The panelists will
Seyfarth Shaw is a sponsor for the 2024 ANA Masters of Advertising Law Conference, the biggest advertising, marketing, and promotion law conference in the nation. The conference will take place November 11-13 at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess in Scottsdale, Arizona. During the conference Seyfarth attorneys Joe Orzano and Kristine Argentine
This blog has been cross-posted on the Global Privacy Watch site.
Anyone following trends in consumer class action litigation will know that consumer privacy was a primary focus of the plaintiff’s bar in 2023. And there are no signs this uptick in consumer privacy claims is slowing any time soon. Although the claims center around
On April 3, 2023, the CFPB published a new official statement of policy on the authority that Congress passed in the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 (“CFPA”), codified at 12 U.S.C. § 5536(a)(1)(B), banning “abusive conduct” in connection with the offering or provision of consumer financial products or services. A copy of the new
To borrow a few of the words spoken in 1926 by F. Scott Fitzgerald to Ernest Hemingway in a quite distinct context, securities class action mediations “are different than” mediations of most other lawsuits.
One reason for this difference is that securities cases often have very large amounts of money at stake (hundreds of millions
Last year was significant in Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) litigation, primarily because of the many ‘firsts’ that resulted, including the first-ever BIPA trial that resulted in a staggering judgment of $228 million for 45,600 reckless/intentional violations of the statute. But aside from the jaw-dropping verdict and the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision in early