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I know what you watched last summer

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 10 2012

The Northern District of California continues the series begun by the Seventh Circuit in Sterk v. Redbox Automated Retail LLC, against class actions brought under the federal Video Privacy Protection Act and seeking lucrative liquidated damages simply because a "video tape service provider" retains records of customers' video purchases and rentals past the one-year cut-off

U.S. Supreme Court limits the scope of "actual damages" in the federal Privacy Act

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 6 2012

In its March 28 decision in Federal Aviation Administration v. Cooper, the U.S. Supreme Court interpreted the federal Privacy Act of 1974 and held that the term "actual damages," as used in the Act, does not include damages for mental or emotional distress

California court OKs collecting consumer zip codes to combat credit card fraud

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 22 2012

Just over a year after it was filed, Chevron Corporation and other oil companies won dismissal of a putative privacy class action filed after the California Supreme Court's decision in Pineda v. Williams-Sonoma Stores, Inc

Avoid being in the spotlight of California's 'Shine the Light' privacy-related law

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 1 2012

Eight years after California's "Shine the Light" privacy-related law (S.B

Third Circuit finds no willful violation of FACTA for printing partial expiration date

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 26 2012

The Third Circuit confirmed that, while the merchant’s printing of a partial credit card expiration date on the customer’s receipt violated the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, the merchant’s interpretation of Section 1681c(g)(1) of FACTA had been objectively reasonable

Retailers recording ZIP codes: class action fuel in California, uncertainty in New Jersey

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 11 2011

Within weeks of each other, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Hansbury and U.S. District Court Judge Wallseach ruling on a motion to dismiss a claim brought under New Jersey's Truth in Consumer Contract, Warranty and Notice Actdisagreed about whether such a claim may be premised on an alleged violation of New Jersey's privacy law, N.J.S.A. 56:11-17