In recent months, there’s been a noticeable uptick in privacy-related demand letters and lawsuits targeting websites and mobile apps. If you operate in the digital space, this growing trend should be on your radar.

What’s fueling the litigation is that many of these claims stem from the use of common digital tools like chat bots, web analytics, ad trackers, and social media integrations. Surprisingly, they’re often rooted in an older California law—the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), originally designed to ban pen registers and eavesdropping (yes, a real throwback for the tech- savvy among us).

Now, those legacy laws are being repurposed in modern lawsuits—often alleging that digital tracking technologies function like the “pen registers” of the past.

Click here to read the full article written by Sid Bose and Aneca Lasley published in Quade's blog.