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Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

Waves of Lawsuits Hit Businesses Over Website Tracking Pixels

Websites are ubiquitous, and so are cookies and tracking pixels (a/k/a web beacons). A web browser uses cookies to store login details and preferences; the cookies also track and profile user behavior. When visiting a...more

Perkins Coie

Privacy Law Recap 2024: Data Security

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Continued cyberthreats drove expanded data security and breach notification requirements in 2024. Although sectors deemed high-risk saw significant activity, we also saw proposed regulations that stand to have a...more

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PBM Policy and Legislative Update — Fall 2024

Mintz’s PBM practice is pleased to present its quarterly publication, PBM Policy and Legislative Update. This edition builds upon prior issues and summarizes activity from July through September that affects the PBM industry....more

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Employment Law Update: The Impact of Trump’s Reelection on Federal Employment Policies

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The reelection of Donald Trump is expected to bring about significant changes in federal enforcement of employment-related policies. These changes will likely reverse many of the pro-employee initiatives introduced during the...more

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Led by DOJ, Federal Agencies Convene to Coordinate Safeguarding Civil Rights from AI-Related Harms — AI: The Washington Report

On October 9, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division convened the heads of federal agency civil rights offices to discuss and promote coordination around preventing harms that may stem from AI, including...more

Baker Donelson

Guardians of the Goldmine: Building an Effective Confidentiality Program

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On August 14, Judge Corrigan for the Middle District of Florida, in Properties of the Villages vs. FTC, found that the FTC did not have the authority to enter its planned Noncompete Rule, and entered an order granting an...more

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Trust, but Verify: The Power of Audits to Protect Your Competitive Edge as Non-Compete Ban Looms

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Corporate leaders concerned about protecting the recipe for their company's success have been following the fitful path of the FTC's rule banning non-competes. Lawsuits seeking to enjoin the rule were filed in multiple...more

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FTC Continues Focus on Disclosure of Health Information to Third-Party Technologies

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A recently announced settlement with online alcohol addiction treatment service Monument Inc. demonstrates the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) continued focus on the use and disclosure of health data. The proposed settlement...more

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How to Respond to Employee Questions about the FTC’s Noncompete Ban (As a Company that Uses Noncompetes)

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As discussed in our recent alerts, the final rule would bar employers from entering into and enforcing noncompetes with most workers. ArentFox Schiff’s Trade Secrets, Noncompetes & Employee Mobility Team has been...more

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Fast Five: Important Law and Policy Updates for US Health Care Transactions

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With the end of the first quarter of 2024, we highlight five developments, changes, or challenges that health systems, hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, physician practices, health insurers, and other health care providers,...more

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What Telemarketers and Lead Generators Need to Know About the FTC’s TSR Recordkeeping Rules

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As blogged about recently, on March 7, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission announced a final rule extending telemarketing fraud protections to businesses and updating the Telemarketing Sales Rule’s recordkeeping requirements. ...more

NAVEX

Addressing Cybersecurity Expectations in Healthcare

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2024 is shaping up to be a very active year for regulatory and enforcement developments in the healthcare industry – developments that concern not just hospitals and nursing facilities, but many non-healthcare companies as...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Top 10 for 2024 – Happy Data Privacy Day!

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To celebrate Data Privacy Day (January 28), we present our top ten data privacy and cybersecurity predictions for 2024. 1. AI regulations to protect data privacy. Automated decision-making tools, smart cameras, wearables,...more

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2024 Privacy Law Preview

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As we have detailed previously, 2023 was a landmark year for privacy law, featuring numerous developments at the federal, state and international levels, ranging from newly enacted statutes to massive regulatory enforcement...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

What employers can do in a world without noncompetes

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Forfeiture clauses are one tactic. They provide a meaningful disincentive for employees to engage in competitive behavior. Noncompetes are under siege on multiple fronts. Originally published in Legal Dive - September...more

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New York Considers Restricting Employers’ Use of Electronic Monitoring, Automated Decision Tools

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The New York State Senate is considering a bill that would restrict employers and employment agencies (collectively referred to as “employers”) from electronically monitoring New York employees or using automated employment...more

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FDA Regulatory, Compliance, and Privacy Due Diligence — Finding Your Goldilocks Zone

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When conducting due diligence of an FDA-regulated company, there are several important questions that should be posed. These include questions relating to regulatory, compliance, and privacy matters. For example, questions...more

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Employers Beware: “There is No AI Exemption to the Laws on the Books”… 4 Steps to Consider When Using AI in the Workplace

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Given the myriad ways artificial intelligence is now being used to streamline business processes, it’s no surprise that federal agencies are scrutinizing potential employment-related biases that can arise from using AI and...more

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OFCCP’s Proposed Modifications to Scheduling Letter Would Result in Additional Burdens for Contractors Responding to Audits

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In case the National Labor Relations Board’s recent decisions and the Federal Trade Commission’s new proposed rule on non-competes haven’t given employers enough to think about in the new year, companies with federal...more

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6 Compliance Challenges for Corporate Marketing Teams

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The days of managing website archives with printouts or screenshots are long gone since modern sites contain thousands of complex pages for a single enterprise. However, even with such a large data burden, regulatory...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

FTC Settlement with Auto Dealer Group Demonstrates Treatment of Discriminatory Conduct as “Unfair”

The FTC issued a release on October 18, 2022, to announce that it has initiated an enforcement action in Maryland against a Washington, D.C.-area auto dealer group, Passport Automotive Group, as well as two of its executives,...more

BakerHostetler

Thoughts on Working with B2B Influencer

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There was a good piece in MediaPost’s Marketing Insider, available here, on business considerations for working with B2B influencers. We thought we might add our legal tips to Justin Levy’s five tips list. That way we get to...more

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Privacy Report: FTC Warns Companies to Remediate Log4j Security Vulnerability

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FTC Warns Companies to Remediate Log4j Security Vulnerability - Log4j is a ubiquitous piece of software used to record activities in a wide range of systems found in consumer-facing products and services. Recently, a...more

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Key Business Considerations for U.S. Global Trade Policy

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As global trade policy affects supply chains and importing and exporting, companies often have interests on both sides of global trade issues. They want lower costs and efficient labor sources and want to sell their goods and...more

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Digital Health Apps Must Allow Users to Delete Accounts, Per New Apple App Store Rules

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The regulatory scrutiny on telemedicine and digital health companies continues to tighten, whether it is privacy warning shots, new direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising limits, a wave of reimbursement audits, or multistate...more

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