In 2019, the video sharing company YouTube agreed to settle…

In 2019, the video sharing company YouTube agreed to settle allegations that the company had illegally collected personal information from children without obtaining their parent’s consent. The assertion made by the FTC is that YouTube’s behavior violated:

Terri Tourist, a resident of Fresno, California, purchased a…

Terri Tourist, a resident of Fresno, California, purchased a plane ticket from Global Airlines. The flight was scheduled to leave from Fresno and arrive in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 31, 2021. Terri later decided to change the flight to the next day – January 1, 2022. When Terri contacted Global Airlines to make the adjustment to her reservation, she learned for the first time that Global Airlines used a company named QuickSeat to do the real-time seat assignments for their customers, including Terri’s seat assignment on both the December 31 and January 1 flights. Knowing that the CCPA considers of sale of personal information to include “any disclosure” of personal information to another company, Terri contacted the California Attorney General’s Office with her complaint. What defense is Global Airlines likely to assert?

BMWisBest.com is an online community for BMW car enthusiasts…

BMWisBest.com is an online community for BMW car enthusiasts. BMWisBest.com holds the names and birthdates of its members as well as the year, make, and model of their vehicles. As a joke, the head of the rival website – MercedesRule.com – hacks into BMWisBest.com and makes all of the information held by BMWisBest.com public. In most states, BMWisBest.com would likely have to notify the following of this incident:

The National Association of Attorneys General, a group of st…

The National Association of Attorneys General, a group of state attorneys general from each of the states in the U.S., schedules a meeting to discuss medical privacy in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic. The group plans to discuss state laws providing rights in additional to those provided to patients under HIPAA. Would these state laws be permissible under U.S. law?

PC-Programs is a multinational corporation based in San Fran…

PC-Programs is a multinational corporation based in San Francisco, California. PC-Programs provides software to companies around the world. For its business in Europe, PC-Programs previously relied on the Privacy Shield agreement between the U.S. and the EU. Since the Privacy Shield was invalidated by the European Court of Justice in 2020, the corporation is hopeful that the __________________ will soon negotiate a new version of the Privacy Shield.