All businesses who advertise their services or products through any form of email marketing have a new worry: a new Utah state law providing for sweeping remedies and a private right of action that can result in...more
7/26/2023
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Business Litigation ,
Commercial Electronic Messages ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Demand Letter ,
Email ,
Internet Marketing ,
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ,
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Private Right of Action ,
Remedies ,
State and Local Government
On April 1, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court adopted a narrow interpretation of a key clause of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (“TCPA”), which restricts the use of devices known as “automatic telephone...more
On June 25, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a Declaratory Ruling directly addressing, for the first time, peer-to-peer text messaging in the context of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)....more
Although the price of Bitcoin is down nearly 80 percent since January, there continues to be tremendous interest in digital currencies and assets (sometimes referred to as “cryptocurrencies”), and in the potential benefits of...more
10/4/2018
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Blockchain ,
Broker-Dealer ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Initial Coin Offering (ICOs) ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
State Securities Regulators ,
Token Sales ,
Virtual Currency
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced on April 24, 2018 that Yahoo! (now known as Altaba, Inc.) agreed to pay a $35 million civil penalty to resolve claims that it failed to appropriately and timely disclose...more
5/21/2018
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Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Failure To Disclose ,
Hackers ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Public Disclosure ,
Risk Management ,
Russia ,
Section 17(a) ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Settlement Agreements ,
Yahoo!
On February 21, 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) released interpretive guidance to assist public companies in the proper disclosure of cybersecurity risks and incidents (“New Guidance”) – seven years...more
3/6/2018
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Board of Directors ,
CEOs ,
CFOs ,
Cybersecurity ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Division of Corporate Finance ,
Insider Trading ,
New Guidance ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Risk Management ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)