Non-Compete Compliance in 2025: State Trends and Employer Strategies
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First 100 Days of the New HSR Rules with Antitrust Partner Kara Kuritz
Podcast - FTC to Focus on Deceptive AI Claims: Compliance Management Strategies
Cruising Through Change: The Auto-Finance Industry’s New Era Under Trump Unveiled — The Consumer Finance Podcast
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Compliance Needs are Alive and Well: FTC's Recent Enforcement Activity
Podcast - New Guidance on Complying with FTC Rule on Deceptive and Unfair Fees
Podcast - Navigating the New Landscape of Private Equity in Healthcare
(Podcast) The Briefing: Influencer Fail – ALO Yoga & Influencers Named in $150M Class Action Lawsuit for FTC Violations
The Briefing: Influencer Fail – ALO Yoga & Influencers Named in $150M Class Action Lawsuit for FTC Violations
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Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: The Impact of the Election on the FTC
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2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 51 – The Compliance Week at 20 Edition
Daily Compliance News: May 1, 2025, The 100 Days of Corruption Edition
Welcome to your monthly rundown of all things cyber, privacy, and technology, where we highlight all the happenings you may have missed. State Action: Texas Limits Punitive Damage Liability For Data Security Breach...more
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson testified before the House Appropriations Committee’s Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee on May 15 to discuss the agency’s consumer protection and competition efforts and...more
On May 19, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the bipartisan TAKE IT DOWN Act into law, marking a significant federal initiative to combat the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery (sometimes referred to...more
On May 19, 2025, President Trump signed into law the Take It Down Act. The new law imposes strict takedown obligations and creates new civil and criminal liabilities for individuals and platforms that distribute nonconsensual...more
On April 22, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published its final amendments ("the Amendments") to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule in the Federal Register. The Amendments expand the...more
Perkins Coie partner Janis Kestenbaum says the FTC is keeping the pressure on strong consumer protection enforcement despite the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda. In balancing enforcement with fewer anticipated...more
On April 28, 2025, the US House of Representatives voted 409-2 to pass S.146, the Take it Down Act. The bill aims to stop the misuse of Artificial Intelligence (AI) created illicit imagery and Deepfake Abuse. The bill will...more
Venable’s Advertising and Marketing Group hosted its 11th Advertising Law Symposium at our offices in Washington, DC on March 20. The symposium brought together both business and legal professionals, including in-house...more
Generative AI continued to be a hot topic for privacy-related litigation in 2024. In the US, companies using and deploying this technology saw themselves subject to lawsuits under various state and federal theories of...more
Venable's AdLaw Symposium is back! Please join us in our Washington, DC, headquarters for this highly anticipated event focused on providing you with the information you need to promote your brand with confidence....more
Editor’s Note: Effective data management is more critical than ever, and the latest HaystackID® webcast, “Data Minimization: Why Less is More,” offered expert insights on why organizations must take a strategic approach to...more
On February 25, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a confirmation hearing for Michael Kratsios, tapped by President Donald Trump to serve as the Director of the White House Office of...more
Publications & Advisories - January 31, 2025 – Kathleen Benway, Maki DePalo, Jennifer Everett, and Hyun Jai Oh published “Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Advisory | FTC Finalizes Amendments to COPPA Rule.”...more
2024 was a pivotal year in the regulation of data practices, with increased scrutiny of artificial intelligence (AI), data brokers, and the ecosystem of commercial data, and the continued proliferation of comprehensive United...more
The concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) “hallucinating,” i.e. generating answers and sources that do not exist, is widely sweeping the popular lexicon. However, more troubling is when AI platforms do not hallucinate at...more
State Attorneys General (AGs) across the country continue their bipartisan collaboration on issues affecting citizens across state lines. State AGs have long worked in multi-state groups related to broad-based investigations...more
We are less than a month into the new Trump administration and are seeing an unprecedented wave of activity and major changes at federal agencies. These changes promise to bring significant disruption to the staff and...more
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to develop at a rapid pace, even the most sophisticated general counsel (GC) and in-house legal teams will be hard pressed to keep up with the evolving legal landscape....more
Two weeks into a new presidential administration, action from the White House and new leadership at federal agencies is starting to have an impact on privacy and security issues. It is not uncommon for new administrations to...more
It would be an understatement to say that the Trump administration has had a busy first week. Within just a few hours of the new administration coming into power, it repealed a number of Biden-era executive orders across a...more
DTC Telehealth Platforms - Arrangements involving telemedicine and direct-to-consumer (“DTC”) business services are expected to be a source of major regulatory scrutiny. In 2024, such arrangements were the focus of proposed...more
2024 saw strong interest in M&A involving companies that use or develop artificial intelligence (“AI”) offerings. The rise of AI has brought new issues for companies and dealmakers. In particular, 2024 saw regulators focusing...more
Last year proved to be an incredibly active year for data privacy legislation, state and federal enforcement actions, and new compliance challenges introduced by emerging technology. Looking ahead to this year, there is no...more
In February 2024, the House of Representatives launched a bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The group was tasked with studying and providing guidance on ways the United States can continue to lead in AI...more
Right now, we are all taking stock of the many important issues and challenges we saw crop up for clients last year, trying to predict what they will face in the coming year, and strategizing about how we can help....more