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Clark Hill PLC

Long Saga of Colorado AI Act Appears to Have Come to Close With Revised Law

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Ever since its initial passage into law in 2024, the Colorado AI Act has been a lightning rod for controversy and calls for change. Over the ensuing two years, multiple attempts to amend the law were floated and proposed by...more

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

Let’s Go to The Session Replay Booth!

Readers of this blog are well aware of the uptick in consumer privacy claims surrounding the online use of session replay and other similar tracking technology. Allegedly aggrieved consumers typically claim that the use of...more

DLA Piper

California’s GM Settlement: Has Data Minimization Finally Arrived?

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On May 8, 2026, California Attorney General Rob Bonta — joined by the District Attorneys of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Napa, and Sonoma Counties, with support from the California Privacy Protection Agency (CalPrivacy) —...more

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California Announces Record $12.75 Million CCPA Settlement with GM Over Connected Vehicle Data

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On May 8, 2026, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, together with several California district attorneys and the California Privacy Protection Agency, announced a $12.75 million settlement with General Motors and its...more

FBT Gibbons LLP

Agentic Commerce, Price Control, and the New Antitrust Questions

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Agentic commerce arrives in a field that has spent the better part of 40 years catching up to digital markets, and is now catching up to AI. Antitrust law is built almost entirely on judicial interpretation rather than...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Maryland Enacts Sweeping Earned Wage Access Reforms, Bans Tipping

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On April 28, Governor Wes Moore (D) signed Senate Bill 94 into law, significantly revising Maryland’s earned wage access (EWA) framework and tightening restrictions on tipping practices in both EWA programs and certain...more

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Three Lessons From Roblox’s Recent AG Settlements

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Regulators continue to focus on how companies interact with children online, as illustrated by the recent settlements Roblox entered into with different state AGs. The company has agreed to pay a total of almost $36 million...more

Hogan Lovells

As MiCA’s transitional periods expires, Europe’s crypto market faces a reckoning

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When its first draft was published on 24 September 2020, MiCA promised to be a pillar of EU financial services legislation, placing the EU in a unique position as the first major jurisdiction to create a regulatory regime for...more

Phelps Dunbar

Surge in Class Actions Raises Risk for Businesses Handling Consumer Data

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A newly released report found a sharp resurgence in class action filings over the last year, driven largely by consumer protection claims tied to digital commerce and data privacy. The report showed meaningful shifts in where...more

DLA Piper

PROFECO Institutional Program 2026–2030: Compliance takeaways for companies operating in Mexico

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The Ministry of Economy in Mexico recently published the Institutional Program 2026–2030 of the Federal Consumer Protection Agency (PROFECO) in the Official Gazette of the Federation. The Program establishes the objectives...more

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Nebraska Makes Last-Minute Changes to Age Appropriate Online Design Code Act

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Many US states have attempted to enact laws similar to the UK’s Age-Appropriate Design Code. Nebraska is among them, and is set to take effect -unless challenged- on July 17, 2026. The law was initially passed in May 2025,...more

Epstein Becker & Green

One Nation, One Privacy Law: GOP Introduces Federal Privacy Legislation

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On April 22, 2026, Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), chairman of the House Committee on Energy & Commerce, and Rep. John Joyce (R-Pa.), leader of the Energy and Commerce Data Privacy Working Group and chairman of the Energy and...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Consumer Protection Update: Insights into the First Year of the Trump-Vance FTC

In its first year under the Trump-Vance administration, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has aggressively enforced consumer protection and privacy laws and initiated new rulemakings. Although the new rulemaking activity is...more

Mayer Brown

New Class Action Targets “Surveillance Pricing”: What Businesses Using Personalized Pricing Need to Know

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OVERVIEW: On April 22, 2026, a putative class action was filed against JetBlue Airways Corporation in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, captioned Phillips v. JetBlue Airways Corp., No....more

Alston & Bird

Your AI Therapist May Need a Lawyer: Pennsylvania Brings Suit Against Chatbot Developer

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Our Health Care Group investigates a lawsuit against Character.AI that raises legal risks for AI platforms presenting themselves as licensed professionals and signals tightening regulatory scrutiny....more

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Colorado Pioneers First-in-Nation Ban on "Surveillance Pricing" and Algorithmic Wage Setting

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As businesses increasingly rely on AI and algorithmic models to optimize pricing and labor costs, state legislatures are drawing strict boundaries around the data fueling these systems....more

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From "Paper Compliance" to "Technical Verification": The $12.75M GM Settlement and Beyond

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The era of "checking the box" on privacy is over. California regulators have moved past simple policy audits and are now "pen-testing" the actual technical architecture of corporate data flows....more

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Silicon Valley Snapshot on Looming Cybersecurity Reporting Rules: Top CIRCIA Takeaways for the Tech Industry

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Many tech companies will soon need to comply with new cybersecurity reporting obligations as federal officials close in on finalizing a proposed rule that will carry out core goals of the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

California's Record Privacy Act Settlement Sets Enforcement Floor for Connected Products

If your company collects location or behavioral data from connected products and sells or routes it to data brokers, the California Attorney General just published a detailed playbook for what enforcement looks like. ...more

Thompson Coburn LLP

The FSMA Produce Safety Rule—And What the 2024 Agricultural Water Final Rule Changes

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When people think about produce safety, they often picture the last steps in the supply chain—washing, cooling, and packing. The FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Produce Safety Rule flipped that perspective by...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Stay ADvised: Connecticut Leads on Kids—From Cosmetic Marketing to AI Safety

Sephora Agrees to Youth-Focused Skincare Safeguards After Connecticut AG Inquiry; Enforcement Aligns with NAD - Inquiries Sephora has agreed to implement new safeguards relating to the marketing and sale of certain...more

Shipkevich PLLC

Minnesota Bans Virtual Currency Kiosks Effective August 1, 2026

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On May 5, 2026, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed Senate File 3868 (“SF 3868” or the “Act”) into law, making Minnesota one of the first states in the country to prohibit virtual currency kiosks statewide, following similar...more

Shipkevich PLLC

Responding to State Investigative Demands at Debt Relief Law Firms

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Our firm has seen a marked rise over the past year in regulatory subpoenas, civil investigative demands, and other investigative inquiries directed at debt settlement and debt relief law firms by state attorneys general and...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Senate Democrats Seek Information from Consumer Reporting Agencies on Buy Now, Pay Later Reporting

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On May 6, several Senate Democrats sent letters to three nationwide consumer reporting agencies (CRAs) requesting detailed information about how Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) loans are being handled in consumer reporting. The...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

Your Participants Aren’t Stupid—They’re Being Targeted

There’s a dangerous assumption in the retirement plan world: that people who fall for scams somehow weren’t paying attention. That they should have known better....more

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