Retailers, Risk Assessment, Enforcement Actions

Using Facial Recognition? Regulators Expect Detailed Risk Assessments

Fox Rothschild LLP on 6/12/2025

Following the Federal Trade Commission’s decision in December 2023 to ban Rite Aid from using AI facial recognition, it has become crystal clear that U.S. regulators expect a risk assessment when a retailer uses facial...more

FTC Announces Groundbreaking Action Against Rite Aid for Unfair Use of AI

WilmerHale on 1/15/2024

On December 19, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced an enforcement action against the retail pharmacy Rite Aid for unfair practices associated with its use of a facial recognition technology (FRT) surveillance...more

Walmart FCPA Enforcement Action: Part 4 – What Does it all Mean?

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 6/26/2019

I am at the end of this exploration of the Walmart Inc. (Walmart) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action. This massive case came in with multiple documents, a long list of instances of bribery and corruption,...more

Walmart FCPA Settlement Shines Light On Corporate Compliance Programs

Burr & Forman on 6/21/2019

June 20, 2019 – Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and its subsidiary, WMT Brasilia, agreed to a combined criminal penalty and disgorgement of $282M, together with WMT’s criminal guilty plea and undertakings in an NPA, to reach a global...more

Tentative Ruling Could Mean You Have to Give A Prop 65 Warning for Every Cup of Coffee You Sell or Give to Consumers

Downey Brand LLP on 4/4/2018

For the past eight years, a collection of coffee brewers and retailers have been embroiled in a legal battle with Council for Education and Research on Toxics (CERT) over whether certain coffee products sold in California...more

"Insights Conversations: Cybersecurity"

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/27/2015

This past year has been called the "year of the massive data breach," with many high-profile attacks on well-known companies. Skadden partners Cyrus Amir-Mokri, Patrick Fitzgerald, Marc S. Gerber, Stuart D. Levi and Timothy...more