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News & Analysis as of May 18, 2013

FTC Hits Path with $800k Fine, Continues to Make Mobile Privacy a Priority

Dentons

General, Overbroad “Agreement” Does Not Permit Reference Check On Disabled Child

by Tim Banks | Dentons on 2/26/2013

On February 22, 2013, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) released a summary of findings in two cases arising out of inappropriate sharing of information between two summer camps about a child following an...more

BakerHostetler

The FTC Mobile Privacy Staff Report

by Michael von Ansbach-Young | BakerHostetler on 2/12/2013

As reported here, the FTC earlier this month released a staff report on mobile privacy. The report, Mobile Privacy Disclosures: Building Trust Through Transparency, provides privacy practice recommendations to firms operating...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

The FTC and California’s Attorney General Recommend Detailed New Privacy Practices and Disclosures for Entities Operating in the...

by K.C. Halm, Bob Scott | Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 2/11/2013

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and California Attorney General’s office each recently issued detailed guidance for providers of mobile platforms, apps, ad networks, and their trade associations....more

Reed Smith

FTC Releases Guidance on Mobile Privacy Best Practices; Enters Into $800K Consent Order with Path

by Paul Bond, John Feldman, Christine Nielsen | Reed Smith on 2/4/2013

The FTC guidance released February 1 is Mobile Privacy Disclosures: Building Trust Through Transparency: A Federal Trade Commission Staff Report. In Mobile Privacy Disclosures, the FTC as the primary federal regulator on...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

FTC Updates To Online Privacy Acts, COPPA And VPPA

by Gina Ilardi | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 2/4/2013

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) was enacted to place parents in control over what information is collected, used and disclosed from young children online. COPPA applies to operators of commercial...more

BakerHostetler

FTC Announces New COPPA Enforcement Action & Mobile Privacy Staff Report

by Craig Hoffman | BakerHostetler on 2/4/2013

Authorship credit: Michael Young At a press conference this morning, outgoing FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz announced an $800,000 settlement of its recent enforcement action against Path, the operator of a social networking...more

Proskauer - Privacy & Data Security

FTC Revamps COPPA Rule

by Jeremy M. Mittman | Proskauer - Privacy & Data Security on 2/4/2013

Two and a half years after initiating a review of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (the “Rule”), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on December 19, 2012 that the Rule will be amended to clarify...more

Carlton Fields

Discussion Draft Of Application Privacy, Protection, And Security Act (APPS Act) Released

by Dennis Olle, Pedro Pavon | Carlton Fields on 1/30/2013

Earlier this month, Representative Hank Johnson, a member of the House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition, and the Internet, released a discussion draft of a bill titled the Application Privacy, Protection,...more

Mintz Levin - Privacy & Security

The View from London: European Parliament Publishes Proposal for Revised Draft of EU Data Protection Regulation

by Susan Foster | Mintz Levin - Privacy & Security on 1/10/2013

The European Parliament recently published a report on the European Commission’s draft of a new EU Data Protection Regulation. The report, which includes the European Parliament’s proposal for a revised draft of the...more

Pepper Hamilton LLP

FTC Strengthens Laws To Protect Children’s Privacy

by Sharon Klein, Angelo Stio III, Brian Zurich | Pepper Hamilton LLP on 1/7/2013

On December 19, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) made major changes to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) for the first time in nearly 15 years, by significantly amending the Children’s Online...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Doing Business in Canada: Privacy

by Bennett Jones LLP on 10/18/2012

Changes in the accumulation, storage and use of personal data – whether by government, employers, financial institutions or health care providers – have given rise to new and more serious privacy concerns. Given the recent...more

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