As business owners check their mailboxes this Halloween season, they shouldn’t have to fear being targeted by a frightening demand letter threatening costly litigation. Yet for too many California businesses, that fear has become a reality. One of the scariest examples has been the explosion of lawsuits under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), a statute written in 1967 to stop illegal wiretapping of landline telephones. This law was never intended to regulate online activity decades before the internet even existed.