1/29/2026 9:59:06 PM Inside the New SAG-AFTRA Interactive Media Agreement: New Standards for AI and Digital Replicas By Emma Smizer Dorian Thomas Big news coming into the new year: we now have the full text of the newly ratified SAG-AFTRA Interactive Media Agreement (IMA). As a...
1/28/2026 7:54:48 PM Surveillance Pricing Headlines California's Data Privacy Day Celebration By Andrew Folks In keeping with its annual Data Privacy Day tradition, the California Attorney General's Office announced an investigative sweep into...
1/27/2026 1:58:03 AM Breaking News: Supreme Court To Consider Who is “Consumer” Under Video Privacy Protection Act By Regina Gerhardt Peter Devlin On January 26th, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari to address a circuit split on the scope of the Video Privacy Protection Act...
1/22/2026 10:27:53 PM Class Actions Under California’s Digital Goods Disclosure Law Reach Video Games: What to Know By Peter Devlin Class actions under California’s AB 2426 are now hitting video game companies. AB 2426, which took effect at the start of last year,...
1/22/2026 10:27:25 PM The FTC’s Age-Verification Workshop: A Look at Tools and Implementation in 2026 By Emma Smizer Holly Melton The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently released its agenda for a workshop the agency is hosting on January 28, 2026, focused on age...
1/14/2026 8:28:00 PM FTC Finalizes GM/OnStar Order Over Geolocation Data Practices By Holly Melton The FTC’s January 2026 final order against GM and its OnStar subsidiary marks the culmination of a long-running investigation into how...
1/14/2026 7:16:30 AM Kentucky Attorney General Files Lawsuit Against Character.AI By Maria Nava This month, the Office of the Kentucky Attorney General announced that it filed a lawsuit against Character Technologies, Inc., its...
1/12/2026 4:17:49 PM CalPrivacy Escalates Data Broker Enforcement Into Health Data, Large Multinationals By Andrew Folks The California Privacy Protection Agency kicked off 2026 by announcing two new enforcement actions that show continued expansion of...
1/8/2026 11:04:44 PM FTC to Reexamine Consumer Harm in a Data-Driven Economy By Holly Melton Today, the Federal Trade Commission announced that, on February 26, it will host a workshop focused on a deceptively simple question: how...
12/24/2025 12:57:15 PM No More Rytr’s Block: FTC Reverses Course on AI Enforcement By Andrew Folks What a difference a year makes. One year ago, we blogged about the FTC’s settlement with Rytr LLC, an AI writing assistant provider...
12/23/2025 8:05:38 PM Texas App Store Accountability Act ENJOINED: The Happiest of Holidays By Emma Smizer In the eleventh hour, the Texas App Store Accountability Act (SB 2420) has been enjoined. As a brief refresher, Texas passed the App...
12/23/2025 7:24:12 PM Is Your Site’s Robots.txt Giving Content to AI Models for Free? By Peter Devlin The Robots Exclusion Protocol file, colloquially called robots.txt, does just what it says: instructs automated bots whether and how they...
12/22/2025 9:45:32 PM Texas Tests the CTV Business Model By Andrew Folks Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is at it again, this time with a set of enforcement actions against five major connected television...
12/15/2025 6:24:51 PM Countdown to Jan. 1, 2026: Mobile Developers Must Adopt Apple, Google APIs to Comply with App Store Accountability Acts By Andrew Folks Emma Smizer Several states, including Texas, Utah, Louisiana, and California, have enacted so-called “App Store Accountability Acts.” Broadly, these...
12/8/2025 6:08:05 PM Countdown to Jan. 1, 2026: Preparing for California’s New AI Training Data Transparency Obligations By Andrew Folks As the pace of state AI governance legislation stabilizes, training data transparency has emerged as a regulatory focus. California’s AB...
12/5/2025 5:53:31 PM California Privacy Regulators Fine ROR Partners for Unregistered Data Broker Activity By Maria Nava On December 3, 2025 the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) issued an enforcement decision against ROR Partners LLC (“ROR”)...