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Retail Market Privacy Laws

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection Remarks Compare Lessons Learned from Consumer Credit as a Model for Regulating Privacy

In the middle of the 20th century, there was a massive expansion of the retail credit market. Everything from boats to sewing machines to kitchen appliances were bought and sold through increasingly complex credit...more

Perkins Coie

Getting the Right Fit: Biometric Privacy and the Apparel Industry

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In recent years, apparel and retail businesses have increasingly sought to provide customers with options to interact with the brand’s merchandise and services in virtual environments...more

McAfee & Taft

Biometrics usher in new era of privacy laws, litigation risks

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In an effort to improve data security, many banking and retail companies have begun using biometric data, such as fingerprints and other physical features, as high-tech replacements for passwords. In view of these efforts,...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

The FTC Weighs in on In-Store Tracking. Or Does It?

In law school, everybody learns the adage that hard cases make bad law. When it comes to the Federal Trade Commission, a better aphorism might be, “easy cases make new law.” The FTC’s recent settlement with Nomi Technologies...more

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