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California Employment News: Understanding the FTC Non-Compete Ban Key Insights for Employers (Podcast)
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AD Nauseam: What is This Unfairness Thing You Keep Talking About?
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been actively flexing its authority as a privacy regulator in recent months. The agency has been especially focused on identifying data practices it views to be “unfair”, thereby...more
Recent U.S. developments indicate a growing focus on regulating and investigating the data privacy practices of companies in the automotive sector. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently highlighted in a blog post its...more
The FTC announced an action last week against location data broker X-Mode Social and its corporate successor Outlogic (collectively, “X-Mode”) based on several alleged violations of Section 5 of the FTC Act. According to FTC...more
Government regulators are seemingly as numerous as the stars nowadays, especially in the universe of data incidents. When organizations experience a data incident, they will need to quickly assess what happened, why it...more
With the ever-expanding Internet of Things, data privacy is a growing concern in today’s digital age. The automotive industry is no exception. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (“NHTSA”) has broad regulatory...more
The FTC has settled with online alcohol vendor Drizly, LLC and its CEO James Rellas (collectively, “Drizly”), to resolve allegations that Drizly violated the FTC Act by failing to employ reasonable security practices to...more
In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the FTC’s blog post suggesting an increased focus on protecting consumers’ sensitive data and Plaid’s settlement to resolve a class action arising from its data...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently published a blog post that highlights the agency’s continued focus on “highly sensitive data,” including information about a person’s health and precise location data. The blog...more
I recently reported on a new privacy law enacted in Connecticut, as well as similar laws in a few other states. Of course that begs the question, what about federal laws? Over the past few years there have, in fact, been...more
In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s letter to Congress calling for federal cybersecurity legislation, the New York attorney general’s report on “credential stuffing”...more
The FTC indicated that it will use its rulemaking authority under the FTC Act’s Section 18 to create a new rule that will likely seek to rein in broad data collection and use. ...more
Senate Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate recently introduced competing bills aimed at privacy considerations believed to be presented by the Coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic. The bills seek to prevent the...more
Synopsis: On December 6, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission issued a unanimous ruling against political data firm Cambridge Analytica for violating Section 5 of the FTC Act by misrepresenting that it would not download...more
Senators Brian Schatz (D) and Roy Blunt (R) recently introduced S.847, the “Commercial Facial Recognition Privacy Act of 2019,” a bill that would, subject to certain important exceptions, generally prohibit the commercial use...more
Manufacturers of Internet-connected devices (better known as the Internet of Things) should be following a new California bill closely because it would create a mandate under California law that all IoT devices have built-in...more