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FTC’s Updated COPPA Rule Is Here: What Business Should Know About Children’s Online Privacy

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On Jan. 16, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced long-awaited and significant updates to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule, the first revisions since 2013. These updates apply to online...more

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FTC Finalizes Update to Children’s Privacy Rules Under COPPA

The Federal Trade Commission's first update in over a decade to its rules under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) did not bring the dramatic updates that some privacy advocates had requested. Instead, the...more

Wiley Rein LLP

FTC Adopts Amended Children’s Online Protection Act Rule

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On January 16, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) finalized changes to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule (Final Rule). The Final Rule adopts certain amendments that were proposed in...more

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FTC Publishes Long-Awaited Proposed Updates to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

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On December 20, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to update the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the latest step in a process that started in 2019 with an...more

Hinch Newman LLP

FTC Advertising Law Alert: Proposed Revisions to the COPPA Rule

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The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule requires operators of websites and online services that are directed to children under 13 years of age, or that have “actual knowledge” they are collecting personal information...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Florida Digital Bill of Rights Signed Into Law

The Florida Digital Bill of Rights (FDBR) was signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis on June 6, 2023, making Florida the tenth state to enact a consumer data privacy law along with California, Virginia, Colorado,...more

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Illinois Appellate Court Holds Businesses Must Implement Biometric Retention and Destruction Policies Before Collecting Biometric...

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On November 30, 2022, the Illinois Second District Appellate Court reversed the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in Defendant’s favor in a case entitled Mora v. J&M Plating, Inc. The lawsuit was...more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

Jury Awards Plaintiffs $228 Million in Illinois Biometrics Class Action

In the first biometrics privacy class action to go to trial in Illinois, last week a jury handed down a $228 million judgment against BNSF Railway Co. In the case of Rogers v. BNSF Ry. Co. (N.D. Ill., No. 19-cv-03083), the...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Illinois Biometric Act Has Been A Class Action Nightmare, But Things May Get Better

Although the motivation behind the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act – to protect individuals from having their unchangeable, biometric identities stolen or sold to the highest bidder – is noble, the class action...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Recent Illinois State and Federal Court Decisions Governing the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act

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Since the Illinois Supreme Court held in Rosenbach v. Six Flags Entertainment Corp. in 2019 that a plaintiff need not show actual injury to bring an Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) claim in state court,...more

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Why the Connection Between Biometric Data and eDiscovery Will Continue to Grow

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Everyone has been talking about the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) lately, namely because the 2018 law became enforceable as of July 1, 2020. This law provides California consumers with a number of privacy-related...more

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Rosenbach v. Six Flags - Illinois Supreme Court Takes Expansive View of Statutory Standing Under the Biometric Information Privacy...

• On January 25, 2019, the Illinois Supreme Court issued a decision interpreting the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) in the Rosenbach v. Six Flags Entertainment Corp. appeal. The court ruled that a plaintiff does not...more

Holland & Knight LLP

New Employer Guidance for Illinois Biometric Information Litigation

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• The number of class actions brought under Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has increased substantially each year since its passage in 2008. • One of the main issues facing litigants is what constitutes...more

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