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This Week in FCPA-Episode 164, week ending July 26, 2019 – the Microsoft and Facebook settle edition
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We have been following and reporting on the Facebook and Shutterfly biometrics cases in Illinois and California. Google was recently sued by a potential class in Illinois alleging that it violated the Illinois Biometric...more
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