The chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Maria Cantwell (D-WA), and the chair of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), released a discussion...more
4/22/2024
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Biden Administration ,
Data Brokers ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
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Machine Learning ,
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Privacy Laws ,
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) gave privacy lawyers a long-awaited Christmas gift on December 20, 2023: its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to amend the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule. The NPRM...more
1/8/2024
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COPPA ,
Data Collection ,
Data Retention ,
Data Security ,
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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Notice Requirements ,
NPRM ,
Online Safety for Children ,
Personal Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
Public Comment ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Reform ,
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On March 2, 2023, following a 4-0 vote, the Federal Trade Commission announced a complaint and proposed consent order with BetterHelp, Inc., an online counseling platform that allegedly disclosed consumer health data to...more
3/8/2023
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Consumer Protection Laws ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Privacy ,
Data-Sharing ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Health Information Technologies ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare ,
Personal Information ,
Settlement ,
Technology
Alvaro Bedoya was sworn in as a commissioner of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on May 16, 2022. Bedoya is well known in privacy circles. He founded the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law School, where...more
5/20/2022
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Discrimination ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Health Information Technologies ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Technology
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan spoke at the opening of the International Association of Privacy Professionals Global Privacy Summit on April 11, 2022, in Washington, D.C. In her first public speech on privacy...more
To improve customer experience and understand customers’ movements and interactions on their premises, retailers, hotels and other brick-and-mortar businesses increasingly use signals from mobile devices to observe their...more
5/11/2015
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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Mobile Devices ,
Persistent Identifiers ,
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Privacy Policy ,
Retailers ,
Startups ,
Technology ,
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Privacy and data security are high priorities of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under the leadership of Chairman Tom Wheeler. In addition to significant enforcement actions against AT&T and TerraCom/YourTel that...more