On April 22, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission published in the Federal Register the amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) rule it announced on January 16, 2025. ...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) announced long-awaited amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule (COPPA Rule) on January 16, 2025, marking the first changes to the COPPA Rule since 2013....more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) gave privacy lawyers a long-awaited Christmas gift on December 20, 2023: its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to amend the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule. The NPRM...more
1/8/2024
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COPPA ,
Data Collection ,
Data Retention ,
Data Security ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Notice Requirements ,
NPRM ,
Online Safety for Children ,
Personal Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
Public Comment ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Technology
Just a few years ago, the legal landscape governing health-related personal information was relatively simple: Protected Health Information (PHI) was regulated under Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...more
On March 2, 2023, following a 4-0 vote, the Federal Trade Commission announced a complaint and proposed consent order with BetterHelp, Inc., an online counseling platform that allegedly disclosed consumer health data to...more
3/8/2023
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Consumer Protection Laws ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Privacy ,
Data-Sharing ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Health Information Technologies ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare ,
Personal Information ,
Settlement ,
Technology
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) on “Commercial Surveillance and Data Security” on August 11, 2022. The ANPRM, approved on a 3-2 party-line vote, is the initial step...more
8/17/2022
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Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) ,
Algorithms ,
COPPA ,
Data Security ,
Discrimination ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Privacy Laws ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Surveillance ,
Technology Sector
On May 19, 2022, at the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) first open meeting since the confirmation of Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya, the FTC unanimously approved two documents that signal its intention to strengthen its...more
5/25/2022
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Data Collection ,
Data Retention ,
Data Security ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
FTC Endorsement Guidelines ,
Online Safety for Children ,
Personal Information ,
Policy Statement ,
Proposed Amendments
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its landmark decision in Maximillian Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner on October 6, 2015, ultimately invalidating the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework.
Under...more
10/8/2015
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Cybersecurity ,
Data Protection Authority ,
Edward Snowden ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
European Commission ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
Facebook ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Ireland ,
National Security ,
National Security Agency (NSA) ,
Personal Data ,
Popular ,
Privacy Laws ,
Right to Privacy ,
Safe Harbors ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework ,
Young Lawyers
To improve customer experience and understand customers’ movements and interactions on their premises, retailers, hotels and other brick-and-mortar businesses increasingly use signals from mobile devices to observe their...more
5/11/2015
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Data Collection ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Mobile Devices ,
Persistent Identifiers ,
Popular ,
Privacy Policy ,
Retailers ,
Startups ,
Technology ,
Wi-Fi Hotspot
Privacy and data security are high priorities of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under the leadership of Chairman Tom Wheeler. In addition to significant enforcement actions against AT&T and TerraCom/YourTel that...more
On July 1, 2013 the FTC’s amended COPPA Rule went into effect....more
On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 the Tracking Protection Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) rejected a proposal put forward by the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) to reframe the activity covered by Do Not Track...more