Eyes on Ecom Law

Song Beverly Strikes Again: Email Address Collection Added to Potentially Worrisome Activity

As we’ve previously blogged, retailers who sell products to consumers in California and Massachusetts, as well as a number of other states, run the risk of costly class action lawsuits if they collect customer zip codes in connection with purchase of goods by credit card. The prohibitions in those states, as we’ve explained, often go...

California Ups the Ante On Privacy Policy Disclosures

For the past decade, California law has set the template for commercial website privacy policies. With the passage of a new law, set to take effect January 1, 2014, the state has updated the disclosures required of any commercial website operator who collects personally identifiable information from California residents. California’s Online Privacy Protection Act. In...

Traps For the Unwary Under the Consumer Product Safety Act: Children’s Products

Nestled in the morass known as the Consumer Product Safety Act (as amended by the dubiously titled Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 and further amended in 2011) are provisions that can wreak havoc for businesses that manage, understandably, to overlook them. What was once a rather straightforward reporting and recall system involving a...