12 O’Clock High, A Podcast on Business Leadership – Leadership in Cybersecurity and Privacy with Robert Meyers
The Road to Regulation: Vehicle Service Contracts Explained — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Beyond the Bylaws: The Medical Staff Show - Need to Know: How to Manage Medical Staff Confidentiality and Privilege Protections
Key Discovery Points: Don’t Get Caught with Your Hand in the Production Cookie Jar
How Startups Can Comply With Ever-Changing Privacy Laws
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 15: TAKE IT DOWN: Online Abuse and Harassment with Carrie Goldberg of C.A. Goldberg, PLLC
Facial Recognition and Legal Boundaries: The Clearview AI Case Study — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
State AGs Unite: New Privacy Task Force Signals Shift in Regulatory Power Dynamics — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 14: The Pig Around the Corner: Privacy and Trade with Constantine Karbaliotis of nNovation LLP
State AG Pulse | Massive Google Settlement Shows AGs Serious About Privacy
State AGs Unite: New Privacy Task Force Signals Shift in Regulatory Power Dynamics — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Business Better Podcast Episode: Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation – Privacy and Data Security
A Blueprint for Efficient SRRs: Mastering Your Subject Rights Workflow
Weathering the 2025 Whirlwind: How to Keep Calm & Carry On
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 10: 2025 Privacy Predictions: Hold My Beer, 2024
2025 Privacy Law Preview: Be Prepared
The American Privacy Right Act (APRA) explained
Will the U.S. Have a GDPR? With Rachael Ormiston of Osano
[Webinar] Midyear Data Privacy Check-in: Trends & Key Updates
Decoding Privacy Laws: Insights for Small to Mid-Sized Businesses — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
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
The past year has brought a number of federal appellate rulings under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), 18 U.S.C. § 2710, one of the statutes under which plaintiffs have been filing numerous claims in recent years...more
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a case that sought to hold Facebook parent company Meta liable for the 2015 mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal...more
There is no better real-world example of significant data ethics complexities than Facebook. The data privacy scandal that has emerged over the past few years is a unique educational tool for any compliance professional or...more
In November of 2023, Meta launched a service in the European Union that allowed users to utilize the Facebook and Instagram platforms “ad free” for a monthly fee. The subscription service was meant to address regulatory...more
On May 3, 2023, the FTC announced that it is proposing a blanket prohibition preventing Facebook from monetizing youth data. The Commission alleges that the company violated the 2020 privacy order and now proposes new...more
On July 24, 2019, both the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced landmark settlements with Facebook. The agreements were significant not only because of the hefty fines...more
On February 16, 2018, the Brussels Court of First Instance rendered a judgment in proceedings brought by the Belgian Privacy Commission’s against Facebook. The case forms one part of two-tiered litigation brought by the...more
More than a decade ago Steve Spielberg’s Minority Report contemplated a future in which facial recognition would be ubiquitously used for targeted advertising. Now, a California court will decide whether to dismiss a...more
The Belgian data protection authority has lost its legal battle with Facebook over whether the social network could track the online activities of non-Facebook users in Belgium who visit Facebook pages....more
Your social media content is not only susceptible to hacking; it’s also susceptible to disclosure requests from civil litigants (see our Sept. 14 blog post for more details) and even prosecutors without your consent if they...more
Facebook has won its latest class action case in a long-running legal battle involving 25,000 European Facebook users. The class action was led by Austrian law student and privacy campaigner Max Schrems, and alleged that...more
Passed in 1988, the VPPA prohibits a “video tape service provider” from “knowingly” disclosing a consumer’s “personally identifiable information” (“PII”) to third parties without his or her consent. The VPPA defines a “video...more
Twenty years ago, the social media world we now live in was the stuff of science fiction. Today, social media is a critical business tool creating unprecedented opportunities for direct consumer interaction, brand awareness,...more
Pupils, passwords and privacy. A law that went into effect on January1st has the parents of some Illinois school children asking themselves how much of their children’s privacy they’re willing to forgo to keep cyberbullying...more
BakerHostetler's Alan Friel recently interviewed FTC staff lawyer Kandi Parsons and Assistant New Jersey Attorney General Elliot Sibers at the opening session of the Children's Advertising Review Unit ("CARU") of the...more
Companies commonly utilize Facebook as part of their online social media advertising strategy. Companies should revisit this strategy in light of a recent finding in the Northern California U.S. District Court (In re Hulu...more
The innovative folks at Zappos have eschewed the traditional job application/interview/job offer process for a social-media-driven process on a Zappos platform. While very up-to-date, does this push the envelope to the point...more
Are social media companies based in the United States subject to European data privacy laws? Two recent judicial decisions – one in France and the other in Germany – arrived at different answers. The Civil Court of Paris held...more