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How a 1967 Telephone Statute Became a $5,000-a-Click Litigation Machine, and Why Sacramento’s Fix Only Solves Part of the Problem
On January 27 and 28, 2025, two California Superior Court judges ruled on the same legal theory a day apart and reached opposite conclusions. In Sanchez v. Cars.com, Inc. and Aviles v. LiveRamp, Inc., both courts held that California’s pen register and trap-and-trace statute, written for telephone lines, does not reach a website’s collection of a visitor’s IP address and device identifiers. Other courts, on nearly identical facts, have let the ...
On May 11, 2026, the Office of the Texas Attorney General (AG) filed a 59-page petition in Collin County District Court against Netflix, Inc., alleging that the company spent years assuring consumers it was an ad-free, privacy-respecting alternative to Big Tech while quietly constructing one of the most sophisticated behavioral surveillance systems in the world. Netflix’s CEO told investors in 2019 they could “be confident” the company would never move into advertising. By 2022, Netflix had launched an ad-supported tier powered by the very data it swore it wasn’t ...