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Strategies for Minimizing Rising Risks to Mobile Apps from Privacy Laws

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As mobile device applications continue to proliferate – magnified in no small part by the recent surge in artificial intelligence-related tools to facilitate creation of apps – they have become indispensable tools for...more

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New Class Certification Decision in App-Tracking Case Provides Critical Guidance for Businesses Facing Privacy Claims

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A California federal court just certified a significant class action involving allegations that a health-tracking app improperly shared sensitive health information with third parties without user consent. The court’s May 22...more

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CFPB Overdraft and Digital Payment Rules Repealed by Trump Administration

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President Donald Trump on May 9, 2025, signed into law measures to eliminate two CFPB rules established under the Biden Administration. The first rule repealed was the CFPB's Overdraft Rule, one aspect of the Biden...more

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CFPB's Overdraft Rule and Big Tech Payment Apps Rule Set for Repeal After Congressional Votes

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Among other significant rulemakings that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized in the waning days of the Biden Administration were 1) an overdraft fees final rule that applies to banks and credit unions...more

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Cleo AI Settles with FTC for $17 Million for Alleged Misleading Practices and Autorenewal Violations

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In one of the first settlements since the new administration took office, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a $17 million monetary judgment with Cleo AI to resolve allegations that Cleo violated Section 5 of the...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Pennsylvania Judge Rejects Loan Provider’s Effort to Enforce Arbitration and Class Action Waiver Clauses Found in Smartphone App

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For the past decade, many courts have found class action waivers in consumer contracts to be valid and enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act. However, recently, the Allegheny Court of Common Pleas in Pittsburgh...more

Mogin Law LLP

Epic Sues Google Again, This Time Adding Samsung

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The fight over the lucrative app market ropes another manufacturer into the fray. Nine months after persuading a jury that Google LLC had monopolized the markets for Android app distribution and in-app billing, Epic Games has...more

BakerHostetler

Diving Deeper into the Revised Health Breach Notification Rule

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As we previously reported, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced its final changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR), vastly expanding the scope of the Rule’s coverage....more

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New HHS Guidance on Cookies

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On March 18, 2024, the Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) within the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) updated prior guidance concerning the use of online tracking technologies, including cookies, by Covered...more

McDermott Will & Emery

FTC Amends Health Breach Notification Rule to Regulate Health Apps and Expand Breach Notification Requirements

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On April 26, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule to amend its Health Breach Notification Rule (HBN Rule). The HBN Rule works as a complement and counterpart to the breach notification requirements...more

Knobbe Martens

Claim Construction When Uniformly Referring to Aspects of an Invention

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Chewy, Inc. v. International Business Machines Corporation - Before Moore, Chief Judge, Stoll and Cunningham. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York....more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Game Over: Robinhood Pays $7.5 Million to Resolve “Gamification” Securities Violations

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After more than three years of regulatory investigation and litigation, Robinhood Financial LLC (“Robinhood”) recently agreed to overhaul its digital engagement practices and pay a $7.5 million fine to settle charges with the...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Wellness Apps and Privacy

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Employers looking to enhance their suite of employee benefit programs, and focused on lessons learned during the pandemic on wellbeing, are interested in providing greater access to wellness tools. And, the vendors who...more

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CPPA Publishes Additional Proposed Regulations - Including Proposed Revisions to CCPA Regulations - For Discussion at December...

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In the run-up to this Friday’s December Board meeting, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA or the “Agency”) has continued its recent flurry of regulatory activity. Late last week, the CPPA published an additional...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CFPB Acts Against Fintech Operator of Mobile App for Illegal International Money Transfers

On October 17, the CFPB took action against a nonbank fintech company for allegedly deceiving consumers about the speed and cost of remittance transfers through its mobile app. The Bureau also alleges that the company...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

So Now There’s a TikTok Ban for Government Contractors

On June 2, 2023, the Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council issued an interim rule to implement a new statutory requirement that, in short, bans the TikTok app from devices used in...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Growing Calls to Ban Chinese Owned TikTok App and Other Software Apps Considered to be National Security Threats

Chinese company ByteDance faces growing concerns from governments and regulators that its user data from its popular short video-sharing app TikTok could be handed over to the Chinese government. The concern is based on...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

FTC’s Enforcement Action Against GoodRx Breathes New Life into Decade Old Regulation

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) didn’t mince words. On September 2021, it called out the health app industry for failing to understand the agency’s Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) and for not disclosing its...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Data Brokers May be Selling Mental Health Data with Minimal Vetting

A recent study found that some data brokers are selling highly sensitive data relating to consumers’ mental health conditions on the open market with minimal vetting of their customers and few controls on how these purchasers...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 2 (February 2023) DCH Health Systems, based in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said it fired an employee in December after a routine privacy audit revealed evidence that the worker had accessed some...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 1. Privacy Briefs: January 2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 1 (January 2023) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said a data breach at a Medicare subcontractor impacted the personally identifiable information and protected...more

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January 2023 AFS Privacy Report: Colorado Department of Law Issues Updated Draft CPA Rules

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Colorado Department of Law Issues Draft CPA Revisions - On December 22, the Colorado Department of Law issued updates to the draft Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) rules. These revisions build on written comments and feedback from...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

It May Be Time for TikTok to Change its Ways if State AGs Have Any Say

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While State Attorneys General have been clear that social media companies are generally on their radar for a variety of consumer protection concerns, TikTok has been the latest to make headlines in recent weeks. For example,...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Artificial Intelligence Now Powers Orthodontics

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Align Technology, the manufacturer of the Invisalign system of orthodontic braces, recently announced the release of an improved artificial intelligence-assisted smartphone app that can direct an Invisalign wearer when to...more

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Antitrust & Competition Technology Quarterly Update - Q3 2022

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Two major technology companies, Meta and Microsoft, continue to defend their acquisitions against challenges from antitrust regulators. The FTC dropped one of the two claims underlying its challenge of Meta’s acquisition of...more

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