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Takeaway: Former FBI Director Robert Mueller once famously said, “There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be.” These days cyberattacks seem to happen all the time. And when a...more
On January 17, 2025, the staff at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released their first results from the FTC’s Surveillance Pricing market study. The FTC staff reports, including both a “staff perspective” and an “issue...more
In its continued concentration on the collection and use of consumers’ precise geolocation, on January 16, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settled with General Motors (GM) over allegations that it collected, used,...more
Last month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) jointly hosted a public meeting of the interagency “Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Business Practices.” The meeting was a continuation of...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reiterated its long-held view that hashing or pseudonymizing identifiers does not render data anonymous, in a post to its Technology Blog on July 24, 2024....more
On July 7, the FTC and the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Central District of California against the developer of an anonymous messaging app (NGL Labs,...more
On April 20, 2024, the House of Representatives passed H.R.8038, the 21st Century Peace through Strength Act ("supplemental"), which includes a version of H.R.7520, the Protecting Americans' Data from Foreign Adversaries Act...more
Advertising and privacy. In 2024, it’s hard to talk about one without the other. Almost like peanut butter and jelly. A recent case from the Federal Trade Commission is an important reminder about the privacy and...more
In the strongest regulatory move made against OpenAI since the launch of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT in November 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has opened an investigation to determine whether...more
On May 31, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) announced two separate enforcement actions against Amazon—one involving its cloud-based voice service, Alexa, and the other involving Ring, its smart doorbell...more
With the rise of large-scale, high-profile data breaches, the Federal Trade Commission has expressed its intent to hold companies accountable. (See “Consumer Financial Protection Circular 2022-04,” Consumer Financial...more
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) on Monday, August 29, 2022, sued Idaho-based Kochava Inc., a data broker, in the United States District Court for the District of Idaho, seeking a permanent injunction and other relief for...more
The brief FTC note indicates the agency will look to combat poor security practices, protect against the misuse of personal information, and discrimination arising from algorithmic decision-making. Last month, the...more
Online platforms may soon face restrictions on how they use personal data to customize content and information feeds to users. Recently proposed bipartisan legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives aims to...more
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) approved a settlement with movie ticket subscription service MoviePass, Inc., its parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics, Inc. (“Helios”), as well as Helios’s current and former...more
Intending to strengthen the privacy of consumers’ online data, U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), John Kennedy (R-LA), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Richard Burr (R-NC) have reintroduced the Social Media Privacy Protection and...more
Although the U.S. has no federal law that specifically regulates artificial intelligence (AI), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has indicated that it may be preparing to exercise its consumer protection authority with...more
Just two days after the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced a historic settlement of privacy and security claims against Equifax, the FTC today announced that Facebook has agreed to pay $5 billion in civil fines,...more
Now that the cameras have gone, the booster cushion has been removed from the witness chair, and Mark Zuckerberg is comfortably back in in Palo Alto, having survived his marathon two-days of testimony in front of a somewhat...more
As Yogi Berra used to say: “It ain’t over till it’s over.” Coal plant operators shutting down their plants should remember this phrase. Even after they throw the breakers, go off the grid, are no longer contributing to the...more
What makes data privacy law interesting for academics, challenging for lawyers, and frustrating for businesses its shape-shifting structure in the face of rapidly changing technology. The recent change in the invalidation of...more
In a highly anticipated and precedential opinion issued earlier this week, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the FTC’s authority to regulate corporate cybersecurity. The decision in Federal Trade Commission v Wyndham...more