By Anokhy Desai A few weeks ago, U.S. District Judge William Stickman IV of the Western District of Pennsylvania held that there was no interception of communication per the Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act (WESCA) when a third-party company collected data from a user’s browser as she visited another website, writing that
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By Krishna Jani, Flaster Greenberg From California to New York, data privacy laws and enforcement actions are ramping up. Check out some highlights below. 1. New York State Department of Financial Services launched its first enforcement action in July 2020. As U.S. companies focus on CCPA enforcement, they should not ignore other state
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By Sara Beth A.R. Kohut, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania recently addressed the novel question of whether a person can be compelled to provide a password to allow law enforcement to access the contents of an encrypted device. Reversing an order of the Superior Court, the high court
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By Sara Beth A.R. Kohut, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP The highest court of Massachusetts recently held that a suspect can be compelled to enter his passcode to unlock and decrypt his cell phone where the government showed the suspect’s knowledge of the passcode was a foregone conclusion. In Commonwealth v. Jones,
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