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PHILADELPHIA – A class action lawsuit against pharmacy retailer Rite Aid, charging that it installed tracking tools on its website which would share its customers’ search and purchase information with Google and other applications like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, has been stayed as a result of the retailer filing for bankruptcy this week.

Numerous new website technologies and tools allow companies to more effectively interact with their customers. These include chatbots, session recording software, tracking pixels...

A Brodheadsville man has been charged with illegally video recording a phone conversation during a disturbance complaint. According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by state police at Fern Rid...

Well-written privacy legislation has the benefit of being constitutional—unlike the flurry of laws that restrict content behind age verification requirements that courts have recently blocked in Arkansas, California, and Texas.

A change to Pennsylvania's wiretapping law would allow targets of telemarketing scams to fight back by recording calls.

PITTSBURGH – After a federal court dismissed a man’s class action lawsuit against pizza chain Papa John’s alleging violations of the Wiretap Act and invasion of privacy, the plaintiff has appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

PITTSBURGH – A Pennsylvania woman who filed class action litigation against video game retailer GameStop – charging that it violated a state wiretap law and invaded its customers’ privacy when it allegedly intercepted and recorded the electronic communications of visitors to its website – has appealed the dismissal of her case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

USA PATRIOT Act, U.S. legislation passed by Congress in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and signed into law by President George W. Bush in October 2001. It significantly expanded the search and surveillance powers of federal law-enforcement and intelligence agencies.

While trends come and go, one that does not appear to be going away anytime soon are lawsuits that allege unauthorized use of session replay…

Wiretapping is seeing an increase, both in criminal case authorizations and, perhaps unexpectedly, as a claim in civil proceedings.