16 Jan, 2025 FTC Brings Enforcement Action Against GoDaddy for Cybersecurity Failures By Bram Schumer The FTC has imposed significant sanctions and remedial requirements on GoDaddy, one of the world’s largest web hosting and domain...
16 Jan, 2025 Texas AG Ken Paxton Takes Action Against Allstate for Unlawful Data Collection Practices By Rick Borden Maria Nava On January 13, 2025, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a lawsuit against the Allstate Corporation, Allstate Insurance Company,...
13 Jan, 2025 Data Broker Experiences Massive Cybersecurity Breach Involving Sensitive Location Data By Bram Schumer Gravy Analytics, a prominent player in location-based data intelligence and the parent company of Venntel, announced it has been the...
09 Jan, 2025 FTC Finds Website Overlay Tool Failed to Deliver Accessibility Promises By Andrew Folks The Federal Trade Commission announced on January 3, 2025, a proposed settlement with software provider accessiBe over alleged...
08 Jan, 2025 New Jersey Releases Privacy Law FAQs, Revealing Insights for Businesses By Andrew Folks Ahead of the January 15 effective date of the New Jersey Data Privacy Law (S332), the Garden State’s Division of Consumer Affairs Cyber...
23 Dec, 2024 'Tis the Season: CPPA’s Data Broker Scrutiny Results in Two New Settlements By Andrew Folks On December 23, 2024, the California Privacy Protection Agency announced two settlements with data brokers for failing to register and...
17 Dec, 2024 What the “Sad Beige Lawsuit” Can Teach Us About IP in the Influencer Space By Hannah Taylor Molly Rothschild At its core, the case the internet is referring to as the “sad beige lawsuit” is a feud between two social media influencers, Sydney...
06 Dec, 2024 Face Value: AI and Facial Recognition Technology Claims Draw FTC Scrutiny By Andrew Folks On December 3, 2024, the FTC took action against IntelliVision Technologies Corp., a developer of AI-powered facial recognition software...
06 Dec, 2024 CFPB Proposes Data Broker Rule By Maria Nava On December 3, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) proposed a rule to limit the sale of personal information by data...
04 Dec, 2024 Location, Location, Location: FTC Continues Data Broker Enforcement, Signals Policy Shift By Andrew Folks On December 3, 2024, the FTC issued two orders highlighting the agency's continued focus on sensitive location data and foreshadowing its...
27 Nov, 2024 Disclosed Obsolescence: FTC Scrutinizes Transparency in Smart Device Support By Andrew Folks The proliferation of connected devices has fundamentally altered the relationship between consumers and their purchased products. Smart...
26 Nov, 2024 Ninth Circuit Finds Ticketmaster’s Mass Arbitration Provisions Unconscionable and Unenforceable By Caren Decter Peter Devlin Recently, the Ninth Circuit struck down Ticketmaster’s mass arbitration provisions—holding that they are unconscionable, and thus...
22 Nov, 2024 FTC Questions Data Clean Room Privacy Promises By Andrew Folks When the FTC speaks, listen carefully. On November 13, 2024, staff in the Commission’s Office of Technology and Division of Privacy and...
30 Oct, 2024 California Targets Unregistered Data Brokers By Andrew Folks On October 30, 2024, the California Privacy Protection Agency added to the nationwide regulatory scrutiny on data brokers by announcing a...
14 Oct, 2024 Steam Updates Checkout Disclosures in Light of New California False Advertising Law By Emma Smizer Last month, we wrote about a new landmark California law, AB2426, that prohibits the use of words like “buy” and “purchase” in connection...
10 Oct, 2024 FTC Gets Record Penalty in CAN-SPAM Enforcement Action By Terri Seligman Remember my 2023 blog post about a CAN-SPAM enforcement action? (No?!?) I noted the rarity of such actions and remarked that the FTC’s...