From Cookies to Climate: When Disclosures Meet Disputes

For global companies doing business in various jurisdictions, complying with regulations that seem to overlap, conflict or apply different standards is a challenge. In California, a host of rules regulate everything from how companies assess and disclose their carbon footprint and climate risks to how they track and use individuals’ online activity.

We discuss how these new state corporate disclosure laws often go well beyond—and sometimes conflict with—global standards, federal laws or other states’ laws, and how they may put companies at risk for litigation and enforcement actions.

Discussion Topics:

• Global Privacy Control and requirements for online tracking technology opt-outs under the California Consumer Privacy Act
• Cookie banner litigation under the California Invasion of Privacy Act and other wiretapping laws
• New California climate accountability laws and mandatory disclosures for large companies
• Required “anti-greenwashing” disclosures for all entities doing business in California