Finance & Banking, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Science, Computers & Technology

Final Red Flags Rules Adopted By SEC And CFTC

by David Jenson | Leonard, Street and Deinard - Dodd-Frank and... on 4/11/2013

Today the CFTC and the SEC jointly issued final rules that require regulated entities to adopt programs designed to prevent identity theft – so-called “red flags” rules....more

Update On Tribal Loans To State Residents

by Richard Eckman | Pepper Hamilton LLP on 4/5/2013

Native American tribes increasingly are engaging in consumer lending over the Internet. These “tribal loans” present unique legal questions and issues, including whether tribal sovereign immunity shields tribes and their...more

FTC Report on Mobile Payments

by Loeb & Loeb LLP on 3/27/2013

The Federal Trade Commission issued a report and recommendations for mobile payments called Paper, Plastic... or Mobile? An FTC Workshop on Mobile Payments, which is based on a workshop held by the Commission in 2012 to...more

FTC Points to Key Issues in New World of Mobile Payments

by Jeff Ifrah on 3/25/2013

Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission released a staff report outlining key issues facing consumers and companies as they adopt mobile payment services, entitled “Paper, Plastic . . . or Mobile? An FTC Workshop on...more

Advertising News & Analysis - March 14, 2013

by Ellen Traupman Berge, Thomas Gilbertsen, Maggie Grace, Gary D. Hailey, Jeffrey D. Knowles, Amy Ralph Mudge, Jonathan L. Pompan | Venable LLP on 3/18/2013

In this issue: - FTC’s .com Disclosures: New Media Still Subject to Old Rules - Paper, Plastic...or Mobile? FTC Issues Report on Mobile Payments - Why So Negative on Negative Option? - Cy Pres...more

Advertising Law - Mar 15, 2013

by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 3/15/2013

In This Issue: SPECIAL FOCUS: FTC Releases Updated Guidance for Digital Marketers; Less Dry or Moisturized? NAD Decides; FTC Targets Lack of Security on Mobile Device's Software; Apple, Parents Reach Deal on In-App...more

FTC Releases Report on Improving Consumer Protections in Mobile Payments; Recommends Financial, Privacy and Data Security...

by D. Reed Freeman, Jr., Matthew W. Janiga, Obrea O. Poindexter | Morrison & Foerster LLP on 3/14/2013

On March 8, 2013 the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) released a Report on mobile payments that serves to follow up on the FTC’s April 2012 workshop on mobile payments, as well as to lay the groundwork for the application of...more

FTC Releases Report on Mobile Payments; Guidance on Addressing Issues in Mobile Carrier Billing, Privacy and Data Security

by Brian J. Hurh | Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 3/14/2013

Earlier this month, the FTC released a Report highlighting some of the key issues in the mobile payments space, with particular focus on mobile carrier billing, privacy and data security, and international payments. The...more

Business News Digest – February 2013

In this issue: - What You Need to Know About the Proposed Maryland Investment Tax Credit for Cybersecurity - Trade Secret Legislation May Increase Infringement Claims and Lead to a Private Right of Action -...more

Advertising News & Analysis - February 14, 2013

by Edward Boyle, Emilio W. Cividanes, Douglas Emhoff, Stuart P. Ingis, Jeffrey D. Knowles, Melissa McLaughlin, Amy Ralph Mudge, Jonathan L. Pompan, Randal M. Shaheen | Venable LLP on 2/18/2013

In this issue: - Recent NAD Decision Illuminates FDA’s “Light” Requirements - CA Supreme Court Rules Song-Beverly Doesn’t Apply to Online Downloadable Purchases - Comments in Four Loko Settlement May Drive...more

Criminal Antitrust Update - January 2013

by Andrew Friedman | Patton Boggs LLP on 1/21/2013

In This Issue: - INDUSTRY SCORECARD - Technology: An executive of AU Optronics Corp. (“AUO”) was convicted of price-fixing in the LCD flat screen markets in a re-trial. Steven Leung was involved in the sale of LCD...more

FTC Orders Data Brokers To Provide Consumer Data Practices Information

by BuckleySandler LLP on 12/24/2012

On December 18, the FTC issued orders requiring nine data brokerage companies to provide information about (i) the nature and sources of the consumer information the data brokers collect, (ii) how they use, maintain, and...more

A Comprehensive Approach to Data Security

by Michael Volkov on 10/9/2012

Patrick Kellermann from LeClairRyan returns with a timely post on data security. When people hear “data security” they think technical jargon: firewalls, passwords, encryption, yada, yada, yada. They leave it up to...more

Fine Lines: Data Reselling or Consumer Reporting?

by Dentons on 7/10/2012

Last month’s U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s U.S.$800,000 settlement with Spokeo, Inc. concerns an issue that I have posted about before: When is a data broker a consumer or credit reporting agency? As discussed below, the...more

Mobile Carrier Billing – At Risk?

by Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 6/21/2012

Carrier billing is certainly not new to the payments industry, but as digital technologies continue to evolve, companies have increasingly looked to mobile carrier billing to improve the reach and efficiency of digital...more

Federal Trade Commission Hosts Public Workshop on Mobile Payments

by Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 4/30/2012

On April 26, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) held a public workshop entitled “Paper, Plastic . . . or Mobile? An FTC Workshop on Mobile Payments” to examine the use of mobile payments in the marketplace and their...more

Key Considerations in Drafting Mobile Disclosures

by BuckleySandler LLP on 4/20/2012

Recent developments at the FTC and CFPB provide some guidance on how regulators may approach disclosures on smartphones and other mobile devices. The recent CFPB Remittance Rule on international remittance transfers...more

Federal Trade Commission to host mobile payment workshop

by Mintz Levin on 4/17/2012

Back in January, the FTC announced that it would hold a workshop to examine the use of mobile payments in the marketplace and the effects on consumers. As promised, the workshop has been scheduled for April 26th, with a link...more

Background Checks: There's An App For That

by Fisher & Phillips LLP on 3/7/2012

In January of this year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a warning to three companies that sell mobile applications (apps) which provide background reports, including criminal record reports. The issues are whether...more

Advertising and Marketing

by Venable LLP on 8/1/2011

IN THIS ISSUE: Airbrushing = false advertising? UK’s Advertising Standards Authority says “Yes” FDA Provides Draft Guidance on Mobile Medical Apps Launch of CFPB has Implications for Marketers and Financial...more

InfoBytes, April 1, 2011 - Weekly in-depth review of news & developments in the financial services industry

by BuckleySandler LLP on 4/1/2011

Topics In This Issue • Federal Issues • State Issues • Courts • Firm News • Mortgages • Banking • Consumer Finance • Securities • Privacy/Data Security Federal Issues Agencies Publish...more

Payment Card Networks Must Adopt Code of Conduct or Face Regulation

by Stephen Redican on 5/17/2010

The Canadian federal government was poised to regulate the commercial practices of credit and debit card networks if they did not adopt the "Code of Conduct for the Credit and Debit Card Industry in Canada" (the "Code")...more

Privacy and Security Alert: Stay of Execution of Red Flag Enforcement: FTC Announces Three-Month Delay of Enforcement of "Red...

by Mintz Levin - Corporate & Securities on 5/1/2009

Less then one day before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was to begin enforcement of the Red Flags Rule, the FTC announced it will delay enforcement until August 1, 2009 to provide creditors and financial institutions...more

The EU Commission's New Communication on the Application of Article 82 to Exclusionary Conduct - Compromise, Pastiche, Holding...

by Morrison & Foerster LLP on 12/8/2008

Over the past eight years, the European Commission (“Commission”) has been engaged in a programme to modernize substantive EU competition law and the structures for its enforcement. The goal has been to ground the substantive...more

Newsletter of the Advertising, Marketing & Media Practice Group of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 3/17/2008

IN THIS ISSUE: *Anticopying Software Disappears From Downloaded Audiobooks *Airborne Settles False Advertising Claim *Court Approves Class Action Status for ?Vista Capable? Lawsuit *Experian Sues LifeLock Over Fraud...more

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