Google, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Attorney General

The State AG Report Weekly Update September 2019 #2

Cozen O'Connor on 9/13/2019

Antitrust- 50 Attorneys General to Investigate Tech Company Over Advertising and Search Engine Practices- 50 AGs, led by Texas AG Ken Paxton, announced an investigation into Google over allegedly anticompetitive...more

Advertising Law - July 2015 #4

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 7/24/2015

FTC And Florida AG Team up Against Medical Alert Systems - Together with the Florida Attorney General, the Federal Trade Commission filed suit against Lifewatch for allegedly using deceptive robocalls to urge older...more

NJ Attorney General Settles with PulsePoint for $1 Million

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 8/2/2013

Digital marketing company, PulsePoint entered into a Consent Order with the New Jersey Attorney General and agreed to pay $1 million, following an investigation of claims that PulsePoint bypassed privacy setting of Apple’s...more

Google: Better to Seek Forgiveness Than Permission?

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 3/21/2013

For years, Google has been blazing trails in the technology world and along the way they have been caught in a few snares. The latest entanglement wrapped up this week as the company settled a two-year investigation led by an...more

Designing for Privacy & Web Success

Snell & Wilmer on 2/11/2013

Originally published in Website Magazine, on January 18, 2013. It is a safe prediction for 2013 that public awareness of websites’ data privacy issues will continue to increase. In the last few years, popular websites,...more

Privacy Resolutions for Mobile App Providers in the New Year

Pillsbury - Global Sourcing Practice on 1/5/2013

The end of 2012 saw a flurry of activity in the area of privacy enforcement. In July, Kamala Harris, the Attorney General of California, announced the formation of California's own state agency to investigate and enforce the...more