On September 9, Senator Reuven Carlyle (D-WA) presented an updated draft of the Washington Privacy Act (WPA), suggesting that the WPA will be up for consideration in Washington State’s 2021 legislative session. The next legislative session is scheduled to convene on January 11, 2021, at which point the fate of the WPA will again be
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Wisconsin Federal Court Finds Spokeo Spells the End for Consumer Privacy Class Action
By Brian J. Willett on
In a sign of the continuing significance of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Spokeo v. Robins, 136 S. Ct. 1540 (May 24, 2016), another federal court has cited that ruling in dismissing claims for lack of Article III standing. In Gubula v. Time Warner Cable, Inc., No. 15-cv-1078 (E.D. Wis. June…