12/3/2025 6:02:24 PM Texas Clarifies Registration Requirements For Text Message Marketers By Andrew Folks Earlier this year, Texas amended its telemarketing law to apparently impose onerous registration obligations on businesses engaged in...
11/17/2025 1:37:55 PM NC and Utah AGs Launch AI Task Force By Jeff Greenbaum Last week, North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson and Utah Attorney General Derek Brown announced that they had formed a bipartisan...
10/22/2025 12:54:12 AM Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) Publishes New Risk Matrix on Generative AI & Kids By Emma Smizer Artificial intelligence is more than the usual topic du jour; it is a rapidly improving technology that has invariably seeped into every...
10/7/2025 2:42:47 AM Algorithmic Antitrust: California's New Pricing Law By Andrew Folks On October 6, 2025, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 325, amending California's primary antitrust law, the Cartwright Act, to make it...
8/15/2025 1:20:32 PM Alert: D.C. Circuit Significantly Narrows Video Privacy Protection Act By Caren Decter Peter Devlin The D.C. Circuit just handed a far-reaching victory to companies facing claims under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) for their...
8/4/2025 1:35:10 PM Class Action Risks from New AI and Consumer Protection Laws By Peter Devlin With the proliferation of new AI and consumer protection laws, much of the focus has been on state attorneys general and statutory...
6/26/2025 8:23:30 PM TCPA in Turmoil: Supreme Court Shifts Power from FCC to Courts By Andrew Folks If you thought for a moment that compliance with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act could not get more complex, the Supreme Court of...
6/26/2025 3:47:12 PM The DOJ Bulk Data Rule and Ad Tech: What Every Advertiser Needs to Know By Rick Borden The Department of Justice’s Bulk Data Rule has fundamentally changed the landscape for advertising technology and digital marketing....
5/5/2025 2:44:39 AM Apple violated U.S. court order, ending Apple’s 27% commission on external purchases By Emma Smizer As the saying goes, justice delayed is justice denied. Or perhaps more accurately, a bad apple spoils the bunch. On April 30, 2025,...
2/24/2025 10:07:08 PM FTC Takes Aim at Tech Platform Content Moderation By Andrew Folks The Federal Trade Commission under new Chair Andrew Ferguson is wasting little time scrutinizing how technology platforms moderate...
12/6/2024 6:14:40 PM 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...
11/27/2024 11:02:04 PM 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...
5/6/2024 5:43:23 PM Another Case on the Enforceability of an App’s Terms of Service By Regina Gerhardt Recently, the Ninth Circuit issued a decision in Keebaugh v. Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., another chapter in the ongoing terms of...
2/15/2024 11:10:00 PM FTC Proposes To Prohibit the Impersonation of Individuals By Zach Lewis As AI-powered chat bots, voice cloning, and deepfakes cause increasing harm to consumers (and celebrities like Taylor Swift), the FTC is...
1/27/2024 12:14:37 AM This Week In AI News: Taylor Swift Deepfake, Take 2 and Midjourney Images By Maria Nava Taylor Swift Deepfakes (Again): At the risk of alienating everyone who is not a Swiftie, we’re here to talk about Taylor Swift again. In...
12/27/2023 2:57:52 PM FTC Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Update COPPA Rule By Jordyn Milewski Zach Lewis Last week, the FTC issued a long-awaited notice of proposed rulemaking that will bring changes to the COPPA Rule, the set of FTC...