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Guardians of the Goldmine: Building an Effective Confidentiality Program

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On August 14, Judge Corrigan for the Middle District of Florida, in Properties of the Villages vs. FTC, found that the FTC did not have the authority to enter its planned Noncompete Rule, and entered an order granting an...more

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Trust, but Verify: The Power of Audits to Protect Your Competitive Edge as Non-Compete Ban Looms

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Corporate leaders concerned about protecting the recipe for their company's success have been following the fitful path of the FTC's rule banning non-competes. Lawsuits seeking to enjoin the rule were filed in multiple...more

Dechert LLP

Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 59

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U.S. Court Axes Most of SEC's SolarWinds Data Breach Suit - The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York recently dismissed much of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) suit against...more

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FTC Continues Focus on Disclosure of Health Information to Third-Party Technologies

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A recently announced settlement with online alcohol addiction treatment service Monument Inc. demonstrates the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) continued focus on the use and disclosure of health data. The proposed settlement...more

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How to Respond to Employee Questions about the FTC’s Noncompete Ban (As a Company that Uses Noncompetes)

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As discussed in our recent alerts, the final rule would bar employers from entering into and enforcing noncompetes with most workers. ArentFox Schiff’s Trade Secrets, Noncompetes & Employee Mobility Team has been...more

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Fast Five: Important Law and Policy Updates for US Health Care Transactions

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With the end of the first quarter of 2024, we highlight five developments, changes, or challenges that health systems, hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, physician practices, health insurers, and other health care providers,...more

Hinch Newman LLP

What Telemarketers and Lead Generators Need to Know About the FTC’s TSR Recordkeeping Rules

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As blogged about recently, on March 7, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission announced a final rule extending telemarketing fraud protections to businesses and updating the Telemarketing Sales Rule’s recordkeeping requirements. ...more

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Addressing Cybersecurity Expectations in Healthcare

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2024 is shaping up to be a very active year for regulatory and enforcement developments in the healthcare industry – developments that concern not just hospitals and nursing facilities, but many non-healthcare companies as...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Top 10 for 2024 – Happy Data Privacy Day!

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To celebrate Data Privacy Day (January 28), we present our top ten data privacy and cybersecurity predictions for 2024. 1. AI regulations to protect data privacy. Automated decision-making tools, smart cameras, wearables,...more

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2024 Privacy Law Preview

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As we have detailed previously, 2023 was a landmark year for privacy law, featuring numerous developments at the federal, state and international levels, ranging from newly enacted statutes to massive regulatory enforcement...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

What employers can do in a world without noncompetes

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Forfeiture clauses are one tactic. They provide a meaningful disincentive for employees to engage in competitive behavior. Noncompetes are under siege on multiple fronts. Originally published in Legal Dive - September...more

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New York Considers Restricting Employers’ Use of Electronic Monitoring, Automated Decision Tools

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The New York State Senate is considering a bill that would restrict employers and employment agencies (collectively referred to as “employers”) from electronically monitoring New York employees or using automated employment...more

Gardner Law

FDA Regulatory, Compliance, and Privacy Due Diligence — Finding Your Goldilocks Zone

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When conducting due diligence of an FDA-regulated company, there are several important questions that should be posed. These include questions relating to regulatory, compliance, and privacy matters. For example, questions...more

Fisher Phillips

Employers Beware: “There is No AI Exemption to the Laws on the Books”… 4 Steps to Consider When Using AI in the Workplace

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Given the myriad ways artificial intelligence is now being used to streamline business processes, it’s no surprise that federal agencies are scrutinizing potential employment-related biases that can arise from using AI and...more

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OFCCP’s Proposed Modifications to Scheduling Letter Would Result in Additional Burdens for Contractors Responding to Audits

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In case the National Labor Relations Board’s recent decisions and the Federal Trade Commission’s new proposed rule on non-competes haven’t given employers enough to think about in the new year, companies with federal...more

Hanzo

6 Compliance Challenges for Corporate Marketing Teams

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The days of managing website archives with printouts or screenshots are long gone since modern sites contain thousands of complex pages for a single enterprise. However, even with such a large data burden, regulatory...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

FTC Settlement with Auto Dealer Group Demonstrates Treatment of Discriminatory Conduct as “Unfair”

The FTC issued a release on October 18, 2022, to announce that it has initiated an enforcement action in Maryland against a Washington, D.C.-area auto dealer group, Passport Automotive Group, as well as two of its executives,...more

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Thoughts on Working with B2B Influencer

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There was a good piece in MediaPost’s Marketing Insider, available here, on business considerations for working with B2B influencers. We thought we might add our legal tips to Justin Levy’s five tips list. That way we get to...more

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Privacy Report: FTC Warns Companies to Remediate Log4j Security Vulnerability

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FTC Warns Companies to Remediate Log4j Security Vulnerability - Log4j is a ubiquitous piece of software used to record activities in a wide range of systems found in consumer-facing products and services. Recently, a...more

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Key Business Considerations for U.S. Global Trade Policy

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As global trade policy affects supply chains and importing and exporting, companies often have interests on both sides of global trade issues. They want lower costs and efficient labor sources and want to sell their goods and...more

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Digital Health Apps Must Allow Users to Delete Accounts, Per New Apple App Store Rules

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The regulatory scrutiny on telemedicine and digital health companies continues to tighten, whether it is privacy warning shots, new direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising limits, a wave of reimbursement audits, or multistate...more

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Menu? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Menu. Yes, You Do!

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As you know, the pandemic shelter-at-home orders forced the closing of dealerships across the country. I suspect that the new ways dealerships have developed to continue to move the metal have inspired some dealerships to...more

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The Risks Are Real: What We Know and Can Predict About CARES Act Financial Fraud Enforcement

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While gearing up to get trillions of dollars into the economy, the government was also setting in place the mechanism to investigate and prosecute fraud related to these programs. The CARES Act was signed into law on March...more

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FTC Settles Data Security Case, Continuing Trend of Requiring Comprehensive Security Programs and Third-Party Assessments

On July 2, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a settlement with smart home products manufacturer, D-Link, regarding allegations that D-Link misrepresented the security of its wireless routers, modems, and...more

White and Williams LLP

FTC to Investigate Facebook’s Use of Personal Data

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Allegations that Facebook allowed a data analytics company to mine the information of at least 50 million Americans have led to the opening of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation as to whether the company breached...more

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