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”)...
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...
12/2/2025 1:54:44 AM Is Florida the Next Frontier for Privacy Class Action Lawsuits? By Regina Gerhardt Unlike some other states that require all parties to a conversation to consent to being recorded (looking at you California and...
11/18/2025 4:50:35 PM Deflection in the Face of AI Hallucinations Ends in Rule 11 Sanctions By Kristen Niven In yet another case involving AI hallucinations in court filings, the Court in Boston et al. v. Williams et al., Case No. 1:23-cv-00752...
11/18/2025 1:56:51 PM Cannabis Retailer Sued under My Health My Data Act By Maria Nava Washington cannabis dispensary Uncle Ike’s is subject to a proposed class action in federal court alleging that it shared information on...
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...
11/7/2025 7:37:01 PM Settlement Against Illuminate Education Highlights Expanding Enforcement of Student Data Privacy Laws By Maria Nava On November 6, 2025, the attorneys general of California, Connecticut, and New York announced a $5.1 million settlement with Illuminate...
10/31/2025 6:27:43 PM YouTube Tightens Age Restrictions on Violent and Gambling-Related Gaming Content By Sean Kane YouTube announced new policy updates that will take effect November 17, tightening restrictions on gaming content featuring graphic...
10/30/2025 9:48:10 PM Google Allows External Payments Following Upheld Injunction By Emma Smizer On October 29, 2025, Google announced that it will allow U.S. app developers to offer alternative payment methods outside the Google Play...
10/24/2025 7:45:06 PM “The language of CIPA is a total mess” By Caren Decter A recent Northern District of California decision stated what we’ve all known for awhile: “The language of CIPA is a total mess.” Doe v....