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Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

FCC Fines Major Wireless Carriers For Data Privacy Violations

On April 29, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) announced that it had fined the nation’s largest wireless carriers a total of $196 million for violating consumer data privacy rights. AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile...more

Troutman Pepper

FTC's Sensitive Location Privacy Collection and Sale Expectations: Insights From Data Broker Settlements (and 10 Action Items to...

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Following several years of investigating the common practices in the space, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached its first settlement with a data broker over the alleged collection and sale of location information that...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Amended Kochava Complaint Gives Insight into FTC’s View of Harm from Data Profiles

The FTC’s second attempt to pursue the data broker, Kochava, continues to move forward. The amended complaint, which was just unsealed and thus available for the public to review, gives insight into the agency’s perspective...more

Jones Day

With the Delete Act, California Enacts Another Groundbreaking Privacy Law

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The Situation: California has enacted a groundbreaking new privacy law aimed at data brokers—entities that sell information about consumers with whom they do not have a direct relationship. Under the Delete Act (SB 362), data...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

California’s Delete Act Has Passed: What’s in It?

On October 10, Governor Newsom signed SB 362, a law requiring any business that meets the definition of “data broker” to provide detailed disclosures about its practices, register with the state and delete any personal...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

FTC Sues Data Broker for Selling Data from Reproductive Clinics and Places of Worship

In a complaint filed this week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleges that a data broker sold geolocation data from individuals showing their movements to and from sensitive locations, including reproductive health...more

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California’s Data Broker Registration Deadline Looming

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Alongside its flurry of CCPA amendments last term, the California legislature passed Assembly Bill 1202 (AB 1202), the nation’s second “data broker” registration law. AB 1202 requires “data brokers” to register with and pay...more

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