On January 17, 2025, the staff at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released their first results from the FTC’s Surveillance Pricing market study. The FTC staff reports, including both a “staff perspective” and an “issue...more
1/28/2025
/ Antitrust Provisions ,
Competition ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Excessive Pricing ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Information Reports ,
Personal Data ,
Pricing ,
Product Pricing ,
Surveillance ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices
The protection of children's online privacy has emerged as one of the most important data privacy issues in the United States. With the existing U.S. framework for protecting children's online privacy widely criticized as...more
7/21/2023
/ Communications Decency Act ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
COPPA ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) ,
Dormant Commerce Clause ,
Enforcement Authority ,
First Amendment ,
Online Safety for Children ,
Personal Data ,
State Privacy Laws ,
Trade Associations
The Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”), Colorado’s first comprehensive consumer privacy law, came into effect on July 1, 2023. Like many new privacy laws, though, there has been uncertainty surrounding when meaningful enforcement...more
To date, US non-profit organizations have enjoyed an exemption from the state omnibus privacy laws. That’s about to change. Unlike the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA),...more
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") is arguably the most comprehensive - and complex - data privacy regulation in the world. Although the GDPR went into force on May 25, 2018, there continues to...more
4/17/2019
/ Data Controller ,
Data Processors ,
Data Protection ,
EU ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Indemnification ,
Indemnification Clauses ,
Indemnity Agreements ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data