Please join Greenberg Traurig and San Francisco shareholders Darren J. Abernethy and Gretchen A. Ramos on Dec. 10, 2025, for a CLE reviewing the key activities from this year in the world of data privacy and reading the tea leaves for what in-house counsel teams may expect for next year, with a focus on practical action items for businesses.
2025 saw major privacy developments for companies in the form of new U.S. state consumer privacy laws taking effect, new regulatory emphases (e.g., employee/job applicant privacy, streaming services, privacy policies, age verification, etc.), large settlement payments and continued privacy litigation. Darren and Gretchen will discuss these subjects, as well as assist in-house counsel with data privacy issue spotting and planning for their businesses in 2026.
Topics covered will include:
· Privacy regulator enforcement priorities and announced sweeps, and the parts of a company’s privacy program that should be buttoned up to help mitigate risk and unwanted scrutiny;
· The latest in digital advertising developments, from continued support for website third party cookies, to mobile application privacy, to honoring browser-based opt-out signals like the Global Privacy Control;
· Privacy litigation trends—the old and new flavors of plaintiffs’ privacy demand letters and class action claims that we are seeing and defending; and
· The major features of new state privacy laws and CCPA regulations, including prospective new privacy risk assessment, cybersecurity audit, and automated decision making technology requirements (some of which will require signed corporate executive attestations—under penalty of perjury).