On June 12, 2019 Lightyear Dealer Technologies LLC, a company that provides data storage for many of the nation’s largest auto dealers, stipulated to an Order with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) resulting from a 2016 data...more
6/17/2019
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On June 6, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit vacated a cease-and-desist order by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued against LabMD, Inc. (LabMD) arising from an FTC enforcement action alleging that...more
6/13/2018
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On January 18th, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) released its Annual Privacy and Data Security Update, recapping its enforcement actions, workshops, and other privacy and data security activities in 2017.
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On January 8, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) brought its first-ever privacy and data security case involving Internet-connected toys. VTech Electronics Limited and its US subsidiary (VTech), maker of...more
1/11/2018
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On February 22, 2017, the FTC settled charges with three companies that, according to the FTC, deceptively claimed that they participated in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Cross-Border Privacy Rules (APEC CBPR). The...more
On January 5, 2017, the FTC filed a complaint against the Taiwanese company D-Link and its US subsidiary, D-Link Systems. D-Link and its subsidiary manufacture and sell networked devices, including routers and...more
A mobile device’s geolocation can be passed to apps and ad networks through various application programming interfaces (APIs) provided by Android or iOS, but there are other ways to determine a consumer’s location using...more
In a first-of-its-kind enforcement action, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday voted along party lines to settle deception allegations against Nomi Technologies (Nomi), a company whose technology allows retailers...more