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New York Legislature Passes a Pair of Bills to Protect Children's Privacy Online

On June 7, 2023, the New York legislature passed the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act (SAFE Act or the Act) and the New York Child Data Protection Act (CDPA), both aimed at protecting children online. The...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

FTC Proposes Significant Changes to COPPA Rule

On December 20, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced proposed changes to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule) that would place significant new restrictions on companies that collect...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Data Brokers May be Selling Mental Health Data with Minimal Vetting

A recent study found that some data brokers are selling highly sensitive data relating to consumers’ mental health conditions on the open market with minimal vetting of their customers and few controls on how these purchasers...more

BakerHostetler

Latest FTC Health Privacy Case Sheds Light on Agency Health Privacy Approaches

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Health privacy has been a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) priority for decades, and indeed, one of its very first privacy cases, in the early 2000s, involved the inadvertent sharing of user health data. Fast-forward a few...more

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Your Business’s Mobile App Could Be Subject to California Attorney General Investigation

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The California Attorney General just announced an investigative sweep of mobile apps that allegedly fail to meet the requirements of state data privacy law, meaning businesses that conduct business through apps need to...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CARU Strikes Again: Another Mixed-audience App Settles Over COPPA Allegations

The Children’s Advertising Review Unit recently found that Tilting Point Media violated COPPA and CARU’s Self-Regulatory Guidelines for Advertising and for Children’s Online Privacy. Tilting Point is the operator of the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Children’s App Settles with CARU Over COPPA and Guideline Violation Allegations

Firefly Games agreed to take corrective action in response to the Children’s Advertising Review Unit’s allegations that the company had violated COPPA by inaccurately (and confusingly) explaining its privacy practices. The...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

You Might Want to Rethink That New Meditation App

Researchers from the Mozilla Foundation reviewed the privacy policies of 32 mental health apps ranging from guided meditation to telehealth counseling services and flagged 28 of them as having “Privacy Not Included.” In...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the...

Key Considerations for Health App Developers from the FTC

If your company creates health-related apps, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has set out some key considerations: - Make accurate representations. Clearly explain how people’s information will be used and shared and then...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Smart Watch Maker Settles with CARU Over Privacy Policy and Parental Consent

The Children’s Advertising Review Unit recently settled with TickTalk Tech, LLC over its information collection practices. CARU, a self-regulatory body that reaches voluntary settlements with companies, conducts regular...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Google’s Privacy “Data Safety” Form Is Now Available

Google Play’s “data safety form” is now live. Developers can now submit the form for early review and feedback. Starting in April 2022, Google will require this label and a privacy policy for all new and existing apps. This...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Apple To Require Ability to Delete Accounts In-App

Apple has issued new guidelines for apps that let people create accounts. The guidelines will require these apps to give people a way to delete their accounts. This requirement is broader than CCPA and GDPR deletion rights,...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

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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The Impact of the CARU Advertising Guidelines Change On Privacy

As discussed in our sister blog, CARU’s revised Ad Guidelines go into effect on January 1, 2022. While the core principles of the guidelines have not changed, they now include new content to account for today’s advertising...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #293 – Location, Location, Location-Based Services

This is not the first post discussing location-based services on mobile phones. And it won’t be the last. After reading my colleague’s post on the priest who resigned from his high-profile position after his location was tied...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

FTC Settles COPPA Action Against “Coloring Book for Adults”

On July 1, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it settled allegations against Toronto-based Kuuhuub Inc., along with Kuuhuub's Finnish subsidiaries Kuu Hubb Oy and Recolor Oy (together, defendants), that...more

Carlton Fields

CF on Cyber: An Update on the Florida Security of Communications Act (FSCA)

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Since the beginning of 2021, more than two dozen class action cases have been filed in Florida state court under Florida's Security of Communications Act. The act has, in some form, been on the books for more than 50 years....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Time to Update Your Privacy Disclosure Creation Checklists? Google Will Add to Mobile Privacy Disclosure Requirements

Google recently announced that beginning next year it will require Android mobile apps to provide privacy disclosures. These disclosures will live in a new “safety section” in Google Play...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #280 – Using Biometric Information for Payments and Services

Many individuals already use facial recognition technology to authenticate and authorize payment through their smartphone. According to Jupiter Research, by 2025 (only four years away), 95 percent of smartphones will have...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Times They Are A Changin’… and Your Website Terms and Policies Should Too

It is a good time to review your website and its accompanying terms and conditions and privacy policies. From year to year, the legal landscape evolves with changes being driven by technological advancements, shifting...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

10 Thoughts Regarding Apple’s New “Privacy Nutrition Labels”

In December 2020, Apple started requiring Apps to display mandatory labels that provide a graphic, easy-to-digest version of their privacy policies.  They are being called “privacy nutrition labels,” presumably a reference to...more

Cozen O'Connor

Charity Shenanigans | Virtual In-Game Rewards Not Real | Apps’ Data Privacy Lapses

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2022 AG Elections- Democratic Challenger Seeks 2022 Rematch Against Georgia’s Incumbent Attorney General- •Charlie Bailey, a trial attorney in private practice and a former prosecutor, has announced that he will again...more

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FTC Settlement with Photo Storage App Provides Cautionary Tale About the Importance of Complying with Your Own Privacy Policy

It is privacy policy 101 to say what you do and do what you say. Valuable lessons can be learned about this best practice from the proposed settlement announced between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and California-based...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Apple Implements Privacy “Nutrition Label” For Apps

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Keypoint: App developers will need to navigate a new privacy questionnaire designed to provide users with an easy to understand presentation of an App’s privacy practices. As of December 8, 2020, Apple now requires all...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Apple Privacy Nutrition Labels Effective Starting Next Month

Apple has launched, in connection with other privacy changes in iOS 14, a requirement for privacy “nutrition labels.” The labels are required for new and existing apps, and are in addition to the existing requirement of...more

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