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FTC Announces Proposed Settlement with GoDaddy Incorporating Prescriptive Cybersecurity Requirements

Alston & Bird on 1/22/2025

On January 15, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a proposed settlement with GoDaddy Inc. (GoDaddy) for making false or misleading representations about their security practices in violation of Section 5 of...more

FTC Enters Consent Agreement With Blackbaud Following Major Data Breach

WilmerHale on 2/23/2024

On February 1, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or “the Commission”) announced that it had reached a settlement with Blackbaud, a software company, resolving claims related to a 2020 data breach that resulted in the...more

Leaked FTC Civil Investigative Demand to OpenAI Provides a Rare Preliminary View of the Future of AI Enforcement

ArentFox Schiff on 8/3/2023

On July 13, 2023, The Washington Post broke the news that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had issued a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) — a sort of a pre-litigation subpoena as part of what is supposed to be a nonpublic...more

Marriott Investor’s Security Fraud Claims Arising from Data Breach Rejected by Fourth Circuit

Smith Anderson on 5/19/2022

The Fourth Circuit dismissed an investor’s lawsuit against a hotel chain that had been subject to a data breach, ruling that the company had not made false or misleading public statements about its protection of customer...more

Court Finds Cybersecurity-Related Claims Sufficient in Securities Class Action

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 2/7/2019

In the aftermath of Equifax’s data breach, a federal court recently found that allegations of poor cybersecurity coupled with misleading statements supported a proper cause of action. In its decision, the U.S. District Court...more

Food and Beverage Law Update: June 2018

Holland & Knight LLP on 6/12/2018

Wage and Hour - Decision Upholds Class Action Waivers in Arbitration Clauses, Resolves Circuit Split - The U.S. Supreme Court issued a long-awaited decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis on May 21, 2018, holding that...more

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