On February 5, 2026, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed the Age-Appropriate Code Design (H 3431, the “Act”) into law, making South Carolina the fifth state to enact an “Age-Appropriate Design Code” (“AADC”) style...more
4/1/2026
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On March 11, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) addressing “negative option” practices – arrangements where a consumer's silence or failure to act is treated as...more
3/16/2026
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has entered into a settlement with Chegg, Inc., requiring the ed-tech provider to pay $7.5 million to resolve claims that it violated both the FTC Act and the Restore Online Shoppers'...more
Texas Attorney (“AG”) General Ken Paxton announced a first-for-Texas settlement against a generative AI company using patient data and providing products to healthcare facilities....more
New and old attack vectors analyzed by RAND in their report on securing AI weights from theft. A new report published by RAND highlights the importance of securing the learnable parameters, or weights, of AI models to...more
DHS advises safeguards to protect AIs and to protect critical infrastructure from AI-powered attacks.
In continuing its work under the Biden Administration’s Executive Order 14110, “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy...more
On May 14, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) sent automakers a clear message: connected cars, and the data collection, use, and sharing activities surrounding the technology, are on its radar. In doing so, the FTC...more
Joint guidance from the “Five Eyes” cybersecurity agencies provides best practices on securely deploying and operating AI systems. New guidance by the U.S. National Security Agency’s Artificial Intelligence Security Center,...more
California continues as the frontrunner of U.S. AI regulatory developments. Following the Governor’s executive order on Generative AI (GenAI) published last year, California state agencies have worked to implement its...more
Russia-linked threat actor Fancy Bear is conducting a wave of phishing campaigns impersonating entities across Europe, Americas, and Asia, focusing on Ukraine-related targets....more
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) updated its guidance concerning compliance obligations for HIPAA covered entities and business associates using online tracking...more
The Biden Administration has issued an executive order to curtail access by China, Russia, and other countries of concern to Americans’ sensitive personal data. The Department of Justice and other agencies are tasked to take...more
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) highlights lessons learned on privacy, data security, truth in advertising, and artificial intelligence (“AI”) in new guidance drawing from recent enforcement actions involving genetic...more
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has banned Rite Aid from using facial recognition technologies for surveillance for five years, demonstrating the FTC’s expectations regarding deployments of biometric and artificial...more