Continuing Congress’s efforts to craft comprehensive federal privacy legislation, the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 12, 2019, held a hearing on “GDPR & CCPA: Opt-ins, Consumer Control, and the Impact on Competition and...more
3/15/2019
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This week both the House and Senate held hearings kicking off the legislative process for federal privacy legislation. Legislators from both parties voiced support for comprehensive and bipartisan legislation. ...more
3/4/2019
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On October 10, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation conducted a hearing titled “Consumer Privacy: Examining Lessons From the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and the California...more
On June 12, 2017, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval signed into law SB 538 (“Nevada SB 538”), which requires operators of websites and online services to provide notice to Nevada residents of their practices relating to the...more
On May 18, 2017, Martha Blackburn (R-TN), Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, introduced H.R. 2520, the Balancing the Rights of Web Surfers Equality and...more
The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) recently announced that self-regulatory enforcement of its cross-device guidance will begin in February 2017. Accordingly, companies that engage in cross-device tracking and...more
Recent actions against two prominent mobile app developers serve as a warning for companies that authorize third parties to collect and use information over time for advertising in mobile apps (known as interest-based...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued warning letters to 28 companies that claim to be certified participants in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative’s (APEC) Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) system on their...more
7/15/2016
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The European Commission formally adopted the EU-US Privacy Shield on July 12, 2016, ending months of legal uncertainty with a new framework for governing transatlantic data transfers after the Privacy Safe Harbor framework...more
7/13/2016
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U.S. Commerce Department
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