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In Compliance: Holtzman Vogel's August 2024 Round-Up

Eighth Circuit Invalidates Missouri's Two-Year Lobbying Ban for Former Legislators and Staffers - The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated a Missouri state constitutional amendment that imposed a two-year lobbying...more

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A Look at the Evolving Scope of Transatlantic AI Regulations

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There have been significant changes to the regulations surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) on a global scale. New measures from governments worldwide are coming online, including the United States (U.S.) government’s...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Truth-in-AI and Robo-Deception: How Regulation Is Evolving to Address Deepfakes, Robocalls and More to Avoid the Erosion of...

The rise of generative AI in advertising challenges existing regulatory frameworks and threatens consumer trust. Businesses using AI-generated content must grapple with legal, ethical and practical implications...more

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Managing Social Media Risk

It’s not for nothing that there’s a year in the title of this blog post and podcast. Social media risks change frequently, explains Kortney Nordrum, VP, Regulatory Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer at Deluxe. She is the...more

Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak

In-Compliance: Holtzman Vogel's April 2024 Round-Up

On April 23, the Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 to adopt a final rule banning noncompete agreements. The FTC defines a "non-compete clause" broadly as a term or condition of employment that prohibits a worker from, or...more

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CFPB Bites of the Month - 2023 Annual Review - Nondiscrimination and Military Protection Law

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In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2023 applicable to consumers protected by nondiscrimination and military protection laws....more

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Top 10 Best Practices for Ethical and Transparent AI Product Advertising

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1. Don’t exaggerate your AI product’s abilities. The FTC has recently warned businesses that false or deceptive claims about the capabilities of AI products can subject companies to liability, as it would for any deceptive...more

Epstein Becker & Green

FTC’s Fight with House Judiciary Committee Goes Public

The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), recently held a hearing entitled “Oversight of the Federal Trade Commission [(FTC)].” The stated purpose of the hearing was to examine, in the words...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Angry House Members Vent at FTC and Vote to Cut its Budget

“Why are you losing so much? Are you losing on purpose?” An implacable Lina Khan fended off four hours of hostile questions from members of the House Judiciary Committee, who criticized her ethics and performance as FTC...more

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics...

The ‘S’ in marketing

I can’t think of a better example of the convergence of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors, compliance, and ethics than in marketing and public relations. This area is filled with opportunities and risks...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Generative AI Is Here – Are Your Workplace Policies Ready?

As generative artificial intelligence (GAI) technology, like ChatGPT, finds new and greater uses in the workplace, employers must consider the myriad of legal and other issues that come with it. For good reason, employers...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

U.S. Antitrust Authorities’ Recent Scrutiny of Interlocking Directorates Signals Escalation of Enforcement Under Section 8 of the...

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Recent scrutiny of interlocking directorates – when a person serves as an officer or board director of two competing corporations – by the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission...more

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Thoughts on Working with B2B Influencer

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There was a good piece in MediaPost’s Marketing Insider, available here, on business considerations for working with B2B influencers. We thought we might add our legal tips to Justin Levy’s five tips list. That way we get to...more

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Wiley Consumer Protection Download (November 29, 2021)

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Welcome to Wiley’s update on recent developments and what’s next in consumer protection at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In this newsletter, we analyze recent regulatory...more

Adams and Reese LLP

Beat the Bots: Employer Risk in Delegating Hiring Practices to Artificial Intelligence— A Dilemma Worth Solving

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As the hiring market surges in the post COVID-19 world, companies may be tempted to automate hiring systems by adopting artificial intelligence (AI), freeing up human resources professionals to engage with candidates at a...more

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In Case You Missed It: Launch Links - January 2021 #3

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Some interesting links we found across the web this week: Democratic FTC Commissioner Merger Dissents: A Roadmap for the Future? With inauguration this week, there has been a lot of attention on changes the new...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Uber Criminal Complaint Raises the Stakes for Breach Response

On August 20, 2020, a criminal complaint was filed charging Joseph Sullivan, Uber’s former chief security officer, with obstruction of justice and misprision of a felony in connection with an alleged attempted cover-up of a...more

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Can Hackers be Ethical, not Evil?

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We are increasingly seeing situations in which a client’s information systems are breached by an ethical hacker. Typically, they take a screen shot or two of data to prove their accomplishment, carefully redact any...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - December 2018

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the European Commission's second annual review of the Privacy Shield and the Department of Commerce's guidance on how to comply with the Privacy Shield...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

FTC Hearings Exploring Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, and Predictive Analytics Focus on Notions of Fairness, Transparency...

The FTC continued its series of public hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century with two days of hearings on November 13-14 focused on “Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, and Predictive...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Judge Hits Pause Button on LabMD’s Hacking Cover-Up Suit Against Former U.S. Attorney

A federal judge in New York has dismissed LabMD’s lawsuit against a former United States Attorney – which charged her with ethics violations and engaging in a cover-up over her role in an U.S. Federal Trade Commission data...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

The Tale of LabMD: New Lawsuits Charge Ethics Violations and Fake Data Breaches

The LabMD data security case is anything but dull. An 8-year (and counting) fight with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee investigation into...more

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Corporate Law & Governance Update - February 2017

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THE #1 FIDUCIARY DUTY ISSUE OF 2017 - Positioning boards to exercise heightened engagement within the current “climate of uncertainty” is possibly the most important health system governance challenge of 2017. To...more

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Friday Links - April 2016 #2

Defense lawyers who checked out the Facebook page of a plaintiff suing their client can be prosecuted for attorney misconduct, New Jersey judge rules... ...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

FTC Publishes Big Data Report – Provides “Recommendations to Business”

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has just released a report on Big Data: A Tool for Inclusion or Exclusion? Understanding the Issues (Report), January 6, 2016. The FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez indicates in the FTC...more

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