Privacy and Cyber Co-Chair Discusses Newsom Signing Bill Banning Pen Register Lawsuits Over Web Tools

In an article published by Bloomberg Law, Usama Kahf discussed the impact of California Gov. Gavin Newsom signing SB 690, which bans private lawsuits challenging the use of online tracking tools under the pen register provision of the California Invasion of Privacy Act. More than 5,300 digital-privacy lawsuits have been filed in federal and state courts across the country since 2022, around 85% of them in California, according to Usama. He noted that the bill “won't affect lawsuits filed under CIPA's wiretapping provisions, another fertile source of privacy lawsuits.”

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