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2025 State Attorneys General Predictions

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 1/7/2025

The year 2024 remained a busy one for state attorneys general (State AGs) and 2025 promises to be even busier. To assist in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and defense lawyers navigate the 2025 State AG enforcement...more

FTC Launches Rulemaking on Fee Disclosures and Practices Across Industries

Wiley Rein LLP on 10/24/2022

On October 20, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the launch of a new rulemaking process to address how fees are charged for goods or services, focusing on potentially “deceptive or unfair” fees that the FTC...more

CFPB Launches New Initiative Focused on Rural Communities

Goodwin on 3/18/2022

In This Issue. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a new initiative focused on financial issues faced by rural communities and also updated its examination procedures to cover unfair discrimination; the...more

In Groundbreaking Settlements, Attorneys General Find Fake Social Media Engagement Illegal

Proskauer on Privacy on 4/2/2019

On January 30, 2019, the Office of the New York Attorney General (“NY AG”) and the Office of the Florida Attorney General (“Florida AG”) announced settlements with Devumi LLC and its offshoot companies (“Devumi”), which sold...more

Five Privacy Practices Every Company Should Address in the Wake of the FTC’s Enforcement Action against PayPal

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 3/7/2018

Privacy is serious business. This was made clear in the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recent announcement that it had settled its complaint against Venmo, PayPal’s peer-to-peer payment service, for misrepresentations to...more

Learning from Venmo’s Compliance Issues: How to Avoid Inadequate Privacy Disclosures

Carlton Fields on 7/21/2016

PayPal, the company responsible for the popular mobile payments app, Venmo, recently agreed to voluntarily bolster its privacy and security disclosures—and pay a $175,000 penalty—in response to an enforcement action brought...more

Return of the Cyborg—FTC and SEC Oversight of Cybersecurity Ramps Up

Fenwick & West LLP on 9/21/2015

The government appears to be increasing its enforcement efforts regarding cybersecurity risks. A three-judge panel of the U.S Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently held the FTC may bring a claim that a company’s...more

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