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Managing Legal Risk in Marketing and Advertising: 5 Things Companies Should Know

Most companies follow a few key rules to market their offerings: Advertisements should be truthful and should not mislead consumers. Advertisements and the products being marketed should not harm consumers. Advertisers...more

Playtime is Over for Apps Collecting Health‐Related Data – FTC Announces Intent to Enforce Health Breach Rule

The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") recently announced its intent to "vigorously" enforce its 2009 Health Breach Notification Rule (the "Rule") via a policy statement that sheds light on the Rule's scope. The policy...more

Google To Pay $57 Million For GDPR Violations

On January 21, 2019, the French data protection supervisory authority (“CNIL”) fined Google €50 million (approximately $57 million) for violating the European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). ...more

Did California Open (Another) Floodgate for Breach Litigation?

Game-changing Calif. Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 puts statutory breach damages on the table - The recently-enacted California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 is a game-changer in a number of respects. The Act imports...more

No Harm, But Foul? FTC Sues Internet of Things Maker D-Link for Security “Vulnerabilities” Despite No Allegations of Breach

Shortly after the new year, the Federal Trade Commission filed suit in the Northern District of California against D-Link Corporation, a Taiwan-based maker of wireless routers, Internet Protocol (IP) cameras, and software...more

2016 Data Breach Legislation Roundup: What to Know Going Forward

States were busy updating their data breach notification statutes in 2016. With 2016 in the rear view, let’s take a look back at the legislative changes that will impact corporate incident response processes and what those...more

FTC Makes Clear that NIST Cyber Framework is Not a Cure-All

Last week, the FTC published a blog post titled The NIST Cybersecurity Framework and the FTC, in which the agency issued a nuanced answer to an oft-asked question: “If I comply with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, am I...more

Is Ransomware a Notifiable Data Breach Event?

There is no doubt that companies face unprecedented volume and variation in both disruptive and intrusive cyberattacks on their networks. Among the different attack methodologies today, ransomware is quickly becoming a major...more

7th Circuit Revives P.F. Chang’s Data Breach Class Action Suit

Last week, the Seventh Circuit revived a data breach class action against P.F. Chang’s restaurant in an important opinion that continues a plaintiff-friendly trend that began with the court’s opinion in the Neiman Marcus case...more

FTC Puts Teeth into Native Ads Guidance: Lord & Taylor Settles Deceptive Ad Claim

Last week, fashion retailer Lord & Taylor reached a settlement with the FTC over its allegedly deceptive advertising campaign, the first such action since the FTC released its Enforcement Policy Statement on Deceptively...more

Safe Harbor 2.0: Political Agreement Reached – The EU-US Privacy Shield

The European Commission has announced that it has reached a deal to replace the EU-US Safe Harbor framework that was declared invalid last year by the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”). Heralded as the EU-US...more

FTC Enforcement in Schein: Misleading Statements about Encryption and Cybersecurity

On January 5, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) entered into a consent order with dental software manufacturer Henry Schein Practice Solutions, Inc. ("Schein") in connection with allegations that Schein had made...more

California Updates its Data Breach Notice Statute (Again)—What You Need to Know

On October 6, California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation updating California’s data breach notice statute for the third time in three years.  The news was quickly overshadowed by the CJEU’s decision invalidating the...more

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