On April 12, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it was withdrawing its proposed August 2017 privacy and data security settlement with Uber Technologies and issuing a new and expanded proposed settlement....more
On February 27, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it had reached an agreement with PayPal to settle allegations that its peer-to-peer payment service, Venmo, engaged in deceptive acts and practices and...more
On August 15, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it had reached an agreement with Uber Technologies to settle allegations that the ride-sharing company had deceived consumers by failing to live up to its...more
On September 5, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it and 32 state attorneys general had settled charges with Lenovo regarding the company's practice of pre-loading software on its laptops that...more
On December 17, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its first Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) enforcement actions challenging the use of persistent identifiers to engage in targeted advertising...more
In this issue:
- Proposed California Law Would Impose Data Breach Liability on Retailers and Create More Stringent Data Security Requirements for Businesses
- FTC Continues Its Aggressive FCRA Enforcement and...more
7/30/2014
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Breach Notification Rule ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Enforcement ,
Enforcement Actions ,
EU ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) ,
FCC ,
FTC v Wyndham ,
Privacy Laws ,
Text Messages ,
Texting ,
Wyndham