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Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

AI and Social Engineering Practice Tips

The hospitality industry faces mounting cybersecurity challenges as artificial intelligence (AI) enables increasingly sophisticated social engineering attacks targeting hotels, resorts, and travel service providers. Threat...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Careful Data Governance Is a Must Amid Enforcement Focus

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Corporations face unprecedented challenges in safeguarding sensitive data and mitigating privacy risks in an era marked by the rapid proliferation of Internet of Things, or IoT, devices....more

Jones Day

FTC Requires Non-Bank Financial Institutions to Report Data Security Breaches Under Amended Safeguards Rule

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On Friday, October 27, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") announced new amendments to the Safeguards Rule, requiring covered financial institutions to report certain data breaches to the FTC and reflecting its continuing...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Your Organization Has Suffered a Data Incident: Now Here Are the Regulators It Will Likely Encounter

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Government regulators are seemingly as numerous as the stars nowadays, especially in the universe of data incidents. When organizations experience a data incident, they will need to quickly assess what happened, why it...more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

The Crucial Role of U.S. Privacy Laws on Unregulated Generative AI

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems like ChatGPT and Google’s Bard have been widely successful and used in applications ranging from science, law, art, business, and even medicine. Generative AI has been called a...more

King & Spalding

OCR and FTC Issue Letter to Hospital Systems and Telehealth Providers Emphasizing Privacy and Security Risks Related to Online...

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On July 20, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent a letter to approximately 130 hospital systems and telehealth providers warning that...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

FTC and OCR Issue Joint Website Tracking Warning Letter

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If you are involved with any health information, even if you are not covered by HIPAA, you should be aware of the government’s recent position that there may be serious privacy and serious risks with use of online tracking...more

Woods Rogers

FTC Opens Consumer Protection Investigation of OpenAI, Creator of ChatGPT

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The Investigation - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently opened an investigation into OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, to determine whether the artificial intelligence company violated consumer protections laws. According...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

FTC Commercial Data Surveillance Crack Down: Kochava Gains a Win in Data Privacy Suit

On May 4, 2023, an Idaho federal judge ruled that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) needs stronger assertions of consumer harm in order for its data privacy suit against data broker/mobile analytics provider Kochava Inc....more

Epstein Becker & Green

FTC Brings Enforcement Action under FTC Act and Health Breach Notification Rule Based on GoodRx’s Use of Advertising Tracking...

On February 1, 2023, the FTC announced a proposed $1.5 million settlement with GoodRx Holdings, based on alleged violations of the Federal Trade Commission Act (“FTC Act”) and Health Breach Notification Rule (“HBNR”) for...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

2022 Hindsight: Breach Notification Year in Review

While new comprehensive state privacy laws took most of the headlines this year, security threats and incident response remain key risk factors for privacy compliance programs and the subject of important legal developments....more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Proposed FTC Order Targets Drizly and Its CEO for Allegedly Lax Information Security Standards Following Data Breach

On Oct. 24, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a proposed decision and order against Drizly LLC and its CEO regarding allegations that the company’s security failures led to a data breach exposing the personal...more

Shutts & Bowen LLP

Changes to GLBA Safeguards Rule Affect More Than Traditional Financial Institutes

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The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”) was a bi-partisan regulation passed by Congress in 1999 in an attempt to update and modernize the financial industry. One component of the GLBA, its Safeguards Rule, requires financial...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - July 2022

In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the FTC’s blog post suggesting an increased focus on protecting consumers’ sensitive data and Plaid’s settlement to resolve a class action arising from its data...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Unpacking the FTC’s Recent Blog Post Regarding Breach Notification

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently issued a blog post stating that a failure to disclose a data breach may be a violation of Section 5 of the FTC Act. The May 20 blog post, titled Security Beyond Prevention: The...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

Abracadabra! The FTC Pulls a New Federal Breach Notice Standard out of its Hat

On May 20, 2022, with little fanfare and just five short paragraphs, the Federal Trade Commission announced that businesses must publicly report security incidents to prevent potential harms, even if no other applicable law...more

WilmerHale

FTC Takes Action Against Online Merchandise Platform Over Data Breach & Privacy Practices

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In the latest of a flurry of FTC actions, the agency recently announced that it had entered into a consent order with CafePress, an online customized merchandise platform, over allegations that it failed to secure consumers’...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

FTC Files Suit Against CafePress for “Data Breach Cover Up”

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a press release on March 15, 2022, stating that it was taking action against CafePress “over allegations that it failed to secure consumers’ sensitive personal data and covered up a...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - January 2022

In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s letter to Congress calling for federal cybersecurity legislation, the New York attorney general’s report on “credential stuffing”...more

Proskauer on Privacy

FTC Seeks to Move Beyond Notice and Consent to Restrict Data Collection and Use

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The FTC indicated that it will use its rulemaking authority under the FTC Act’s Section 18 to create a new rule that will likely seek to rein in broad data collection and use. ...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Privacy, Cyber & AI...

FTC Overhauls Safeguards Rule Regarding Customer Information Applicable to Auto-Dealers and Other "Financial Institutions"

On October 27, 2021, the FTC announced that it intends to publish (1) a final rule to amend the Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information (Safeguards Rule); (2) a supplemental notice and request for public comment on...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Privacy, Cyber & AI...

Proposed Federal "Setting an American Framework to Ensure Data Access, Transparency, and Accountability Act"

U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn) recently reintroduced a comprehensive federal privacy bill entitled the Setting an American Framework to Ensure Data Access, Transparency, and Accountability...more

Proskauer on Privacy

The Future of the FTC: Part I

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On January 21, 2021, President Biden designated Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter as acting chair of the FTC. Soon thereafter in one of her first speeches in her new role, Chairwoman...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

FTC Settles with Zoom Over Subpar Security and Misleading Data Privacy Practices

Earlier this week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a settlement with Zoom that will require the company to enhance its data security practices to address allegations that the videoconferencing provider engaged in...more

White & Case LLP

US Cybersecurity Standards to Get Tougher and More Specific: FTC and NYDFS Lead the Way

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In the past few years, cybersecurity has taken on increasing importance in the eyes of lawmakers and regulators. Traditionally, cybersecurity compliance that is tied to the protection of personal information generally has...more

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