Michelle Bowling

The 2026 legislative cycle reveals that state privacy law is diverging along partisan lines. Red-state legislatures are pursuing frameworks that retain the Virginia architecture while easing compliance burdens through broader...more The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recent case against OkCupid and Match Group Americas is a classic FTC Section 5 deception action focused on false and misleading privacy promises about third-party data sharing, with the...more In 2025 alone there were over 1,000 lawsuits filed alleging violations of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). Plaintiffs typically allege that third-party cookies, pixels, or other tracking mechanisms violate...more Recently, with the backing of CalPrivacy, California Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo introduced bill AB2021 (The Whistleblower Protection and Privacy Act), which would make California the first jurisdiction in the United States...more