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FTC Settles With accessiBe For Misleading Statements About WCAG Compliance

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on April 22, 2025, that it has approved a settlement entered into a Final Order with accessiBe, which claimed its plug-in product, accessWidget, “can make any website compliant...more

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Transparency and AI: FTC Launches Enforcement Actions Against Businesses Promoting Deceptive AI Product Claims

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Numerous businesses today deploy artificial intelligence (AI) innovatively across various industries, with many companies eager to hop on the AI hype train and ride the momentum of new and innovative business tools. While...more

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Texas AG Reaches First-of-its-Kind Settlement With Healthcare AI Company Over Hallucination Rate Claims

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In a recent settlement, the Texas attorney general resolved allegations that Pieces Technologies, Inc. (Pieces), a healthcare generative AI company, misrepresented the hallucination rate of its generative AI product to...more

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Right To Know - October 2024, Vol. 22

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Cyber, Privacy, and Technology Report - Welcome to your monthly rundown of all things cyber, privacy, and technology, where we highlight all the happenings you may have missed....more

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Novel Settlement Reached in Generative AI Deceptive Trade Practices Healthcare Investigation

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The state of Texas, by and through its Attorney General Ken Paxton, reached a first-of-its-kind settlement agreement with Pieces Technologies Inc. (Pieces) following an investigation into Pieces' alleged violations of the...more

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FTC: Three Enforcement Actions and a Ruling

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In today's digital landscape, the exchange of personal information has become ubiquitous, often without consumers fully comprehending the extent of its implications. The recent actions undertaken by the Federal Trade...more

Hinch Newman LLP

FTC Order Will Ban U.K.-Based Software Provider from Selling Browsing Data for Ad Purposes and Require It to Pay $16.5MM Over...

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On February 24, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it will require software provider Avast to pay $16.5MM and prohibit the company from selling or licensing any web browsing data for advertising purposes to...more

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Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 43 | Key Developments in Privacy & Cybersecurity

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NSA and CISA Release Report on “Top Ten” Cybersecurity Misconfigurations; CISA Calls for Software Manufacturers to Implement Best Practices - On October 5, 2023, the United States National Security Agency (NSA) and...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: October 2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 10 (October, 2023) Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals will pay California $49 million to resolve allegations that they unlawfully disposed of hazardous waste,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

EEOC Settles Over Recruiting Software in Possible First Ever AI-related Case

On September 8, 2023, federal court approved a consent decree from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) with iTutorGroup Inc. and its affiliates (“iTutor”) over alleged age discrimination in hiring, stemming...more

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EEOC's Settlement Challenging Simple Algorithm Provides Warning for Employers Using Artificial Intelligence

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Recently, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) filed a settlement agreement in a lawsuit that many are calling the EEOC’s “first-ever” artificial intelligence discrimination in hiring...more

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How Much Does the EEOC and iTutorGroup Settlement Really Implicate Algorithmic Bias?—Four Notable Points for Employers

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On August 9, 2023, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) and iTutorGroup, Inc. and related companies (collectively, “iTutorGroup”) filed a joint notice of settlement  and a request for approval and...more

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EEOC Inks First-Ever AI-Based Antidiscrimination Settlement

On August 9, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) and iTutorGroup, Inc. filed a joint notice of settlement and consent decree announcing the settlement of a discrimination in hiring lawsuit. This...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

MedEvolve OCR Settlement for $350,000 due to Alleged Failures to Protect Data

On May 17, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement with MedEvolve, Inc. for $350,000. MedEvolve provides practice and revenue cycle management and practice...more

Foley Hoag LLP

The Voluntary Disclosure Landscape After Microsoft’s Settlements with BIS and OFAC and the Issuance of the Axelrod Memorandum

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On April 6, 2023, Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”) agreed to pay $3.3 million to the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) and the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control...more

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OFAC and BIS Announce Microsoft Settlement of Sanctions and Export Control Violations

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On April 6, 2023, the Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) and the Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) announced a settlement with Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”) and...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - V 4, Issue 4, April 2023

Tech Vendors and Cybersecurity – Are They Responsible? It has long been recommended that when you contract with a technology vendor that you include an indemnity clause in the contract wherein the vendor will indemnify you...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Computers on Wheels: One OEM Settles Claims While Another Scores A Win In Cases Involving Allegedly Botched OTA Updates

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A recent motion for preliminary approval of a class action settlement filed in federal court in Georgia will bring to a close claims asserted on behalf of a class of Porsche owners for a purportedly botched over-the-air...more

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Privacy Update: FCC Seeks Public Comment on the Current and Future Regulation of the "Internet of Things"

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FCC Seeks Public Comment on the Current and Future Regulation of the “Internet of Things” - The FCC is requesting public comment in a proceeding that will help determine the scope and nature of regulation of the “Internet of...more

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Lessons to Learn for Global Software Providers from SAP Settlements of DOJ, BIS and OFAC Investigations Concerning Software...

Sales of your software are robust around the globe. You have a network of third-party resellers, distributors or implementation partners that are driving international growth. Your customers praise your efficient maintenance...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Princeton Penalized for Alleged Research-Related Export Violations

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On February 1, the U.S. Commerce Department, Bureau of Industry & Security (BIS), announced a settlement (available here) with Princeton University in connection with 37 alleged violations of the Export Administration...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

$145 Million Settlement Shows the Depth of Government’s Effort to Combat Opioid Crisis and its Interest in Fraud Actions Against...

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Less than a year after United States Attorney Christina E. Nolan warned electronic health records (“EHR”) companies in a DOJ press release that they “should consider themselves on notice” following a $57.25 million FCA...more

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Financial Daily Dose 2.10.2020 | Top Story: Volvo May go Public Via Merger With Owner’s Geely Automobile Holdings

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Volvo’s owner, Li Shufu, is mulling over a move to combine the carmaker with his publicly traded Geely Automobile Holdings—a play that would take Volvo public and “unify the bulk of billionaire Li’s growing stable of...more

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Focus on US economic sanctions compliance: OFAC imposes fines and expects more monitoring

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 2 (January 23, 2020) - The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the primary U.S. government agency that administers U.S. economic sanctions, was busy...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.16.2019 | Top Story: Aramco Seeks Valuation of $1.7B, Well below Original Goal

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Saudi Aramco’s slow trickle of IPO-related information continued this weekend, including its goal of setting overall company market value at a staggering $1.7 trillion. The figure, though massive, is still well short of the...more

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