Alan L. Friel

California Ballot Referendum on CCPA Will Have Significant Effects on AdTech

By Alan L. Friel and Kyle R. Fath on November 18, 2020 Posted in California

On Election Day, California voters approved a ballot measure, Proposition 24, known as the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA). Referred to by some as CCPA 2.0, the CPRA amends certain provisions of the paradigm shifting 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which went into effect in January 2020 and became subject to enforcement … Continue Reading

IAB Launches CCPA Benchmark Survey

By Taylor A. Bloom, Kyle R. Fath, Gerald J. Ferguson, Alan L. Friel and Linda A. Goldstein on August 27, 2020 Posted in Advertising, California

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), a leading advertising industry organization, has launched a CCPA Benchmark Survey to assess how companies across the digital advertising ecosystem are approaching CCPA compliance. The survey provides an opportunity for companies to anonymously report on their handling of various CCPA matters, including to provide statistics relating to the number of access, deletion, … Continue Reading

CCPA Regs: “This is the meat on the bones….”

By Alan L. Friel on October 10, 2019 Posted in California, Data Privacy

For our readers who are following and interested in CCPA developments (and what advertiser is not!?), please see today’s post in the Data Privacy Monitor summarizing the hot off the presses proposed implementation regulations. The draft regs, announced via press conference today, provide more detail on key topics of concern including what notices are required … Continue Reading

California’s Law Regulating Online Bots, Effective July 1, 2019

By Alan L. Friel and Zoe Steinberg on June 25, 2019 Posted in Advertising, California

California’s new “bot” law, Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17940, et seq. (SB 1001) takes effect on July 1, 2019. This means that any company or individual that uses bots online for solicitations of commercial transactions or to influence a vote in an election should ensure appropriate “clear, conspicuous, and reasonably designated” disclosures are … Continue Reading

Ad and Publishing Industries Confront CCPA Challenges While Congress Considers Privacy

By Alan L. Friel on May 29, 2019 Posted in Advertising, California, Data Privacy

The junior Senator from Missouri, Joshua Hawley (R), has introduced s 1578, which would require the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to create and make available a “do not track” (DNT) signal that consumers can associate with their devices and require that online services look for the signal and, when indicated, not collect, use or share … Continue Reading

20 Years Young: The Maturing of COPPA in a Privacy-Conscious Age

By Carolina Alonso, Alan L. Friel, Amy Ralph Mudge and Taylor A. Bloom on April 30, 2019 Posted in Advertising, COPPA

We cover children’s privacy and advertising weekly. However, in light of COPPA’s recent 20th anniversary, and in the wake of CARU’s biggest-yet West Coast CARU conference, ADLaw has enlisted CARU super lawyer Katie Goldstein* to help us recap the past 2.5 decades of KIDlaw. 1998: A Concern for Children’s Privacy Was Born From the moment home … Continue Reading

To Ensure a Complete Release, Address California’s New Section 1542

By Alan L. Friel and Zoe Steinberg on April 4, 2019 Posted in Advertising, California

Civil Code Sections 1541 and 1542, California laws that govern the extinguishment of certain obligations, were recently amended by Senate Bill No. 1431. The subtle amendments made to these code sections not only impact ordinary settlement agreements but also impact a variety of other releases that intend to be a complete release of all potential … Continue Reading