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Foley Hoag LLP

Want to Say It Ain't So? FDA Guides Firms on How to Respond to Misinformation

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Health providers and consumers increasingly rely on the internet for health and medical-related information, but not all such information is reliable, and many statements are downright false. The proliferation of social media...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

FCC’s Net Neutrality Redux: Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet

On May 7, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued its latest network neutrality order, Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet (the "Order"), which was published in the Federal Register on May 22, 2024,...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Beyond whack-a-mole: Maximizing the impact of your internet monitoring program

E-commerce was already booming when the pandemic struck, and now it feels ubiquitous. Consumers spent $861.12 billion online with U.S. retailers in 2020, up 44.0% from $598.02 billion in 2019, representing 21.3% of total...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Internet Businesses Are Targeted By OFAC For Sanctions Violations: How To Reduce Risk

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Internet businesses are easily able to reach customers around the world. That worldwide reach, however, only increases a company’s risk of violating U.S. economic sanctions that the company might have not even realized...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Open Internet Advisory Opinions: Do You Feel Lucky?

As part of the 2015 Open Internet Order (“Order”), the FCC adopted rules enabling regulated entities to seek advisory opinions from the Enforcement Bureau regarding the application of the Open Internet rules to proposed...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

FCC Enforcement Advisory: Broadband Providers Must Take Reasonable, Good Faith Steps to Protect Consumer Privacy

On Wednesday, May 20, 2015, the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau issued its first enforcement advisory in the post-Open Internet Order era. Not surprisingly, the Bureau’s first advisory addressed the consumer privacy obligations of...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"FTC Continues Vigorous Section 5 Enforcement"

On July 21, 2014, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) accepted a consent agreement, subject to final approval, to settle charges with two Internet resellers of Universal Product Code (UPC) barcodes accused of...more

McDermott Will & Emery

The FTC Means It: Another Safe Harbor Enforcement Action

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No doubt about it: the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is serious about taking action against companies that misrepresent their U.S.-EU Safe Harbor certification status. On February 11, 2014, the FTC announced that...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

AGCOM And The Administrative Enforcement Of IP Rights

The Issues Concerning the Legitimacy of the Regulations - At the end of a process started in 2010, after three public consultations on an equal number of proposals, on December 12, 2012 AGCOM (i.e. the Italian...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

CA Legislation Will Require Commercial Websites to Disclose “Do Not Track” Practices

Last week the California State Senate and Assembly passed AB 370, a bill to amend the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA) that would require operators of commercial websites or “online services” to disclose how...more

The Volkov Law Group

AML Enforcement And Virtual Currencies

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It is difficult for regulators and law enforcement to keep up with creative new ways in which criminals choose to store and trade money. This is especially true in the Internet-age where anonymity and ease of communications...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

What You Should Know About Electronic Subscriptions and Copyright Law: A Best Practices Guide

Increasingly, printed matter is being made available via the Internet in electronic form, and both publishers and readers alike are starting to prefer an online format over the printed hardcopy format. One example is...more

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