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Revolve is facing a $50 million putative class action over allegedly failing to enforce disclosure rules in its influencer campaigns. The suit claims that influencers received payments and free products but failed to clearly...more
In a much-anticipated decision, the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 17, 2025, rejected TikTok's appeal and upheld the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (Act). The act, which was signed into...more
The Online Safety Act 2023 (the Act), aims to protect people online, particularly children, and places more responsibility on online media platforms and search engines, which now have new legal duties to protect users’ safety...more
On September 26, 2024, the SEC announced that it had settled charges with DraftKings Inc. for selective disclosure of material non-public information on the CEO’s personal X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn accounts in...more
On September 9, 2024, approximately one year since its first flurry of similar Marketing Rule actions, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) announced settlements with nine SEC-registered investment advisers (the...more
The French data privacy authority (DPA) announced that it will fine Discord, Inc. 800,000 euros under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Discord is a social messaging platform popular with gamers, technology...more
On June 21, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint and settlement agreement in federal court alleging that a social media company is in violation of the Fair Housing Act (FHA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 3601-3619,...more
We have previously blogged about the rise of computer generated imagery (CGI) influencers, which are one form of social media bots currently invading the online world. Bots are automated software that perform actions using a...more
On February 12, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced that it had voted 5-0 to approve a proposed Federal Register Notice, seeking comment on whether to make changes to its Guides Concerning the Use of...more
Healthcare providers face a dilemma when patients post complaints or make other statements on social media. Just because a patient has made certain information public does not mean that the provider can also post protected...more
There is no doubt that social media has its benefits, especially for medical practices that have come to use it for marketing and advertising. However, risks are lurking. On October 2, 2019, the U.S. Department of Health...more
Many cities in the United States utilize a self-pay portal for residents to pay bills online, known as Click2Gov. Click2Gov was compromised in 2017 and 2018, when hackers were able to access over 300,000 payment cards and...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced in a press release on September 25, 2019, that it has filed a Complaint against Match Group, Inc. (Match), the owner of Match.com, Tinder, OKCupid, PlentyOfFish and other...more
On June 4, 2019, the SEC sued Kik Interactive Inc. (“Kik”), a privately held Canadian company, in the Southern District of New York, alleging that Kik’s offer and sale of $100 million worth of Kin tokens in 2017 constituted...more
This newsletter discusses noteworthy updates, key regulatory decisions and upcoming compliance reminders. ...more
Much has happened since the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect on May 25, 2018. Many EU countries have enacted national legislation to implement and expand the requirements of the...more
Avid readers or this blog know that the FTC spends as much time on Instagram and other social platforms as your favorite millennial, but who knew that the SEC also spends it’s working hours perusing posts on popular social...more
Breakingviews on Broadcom’s threat to Qualcomm’s board in the form of a slate of 11 director nominees for the company it has, so far, unsuccessfully attempted to purchase....more
As we blogged about earlier this month, the FTC seems to have spent much of its summer checking out influencer advertising and focusing its attention on those who fail to make the necessary disclosures of material connections...more
We blogged last week about the FTC’s triple play against deceptive influencer advertising. In one prong of the initiative, the FTC announced that its staff had sent 21 follow-up warning letters to influencers, asking them to...more
Consumer protection is always in style with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Under the FTC Act, a company cannot make a misrepresentation that would affect the consumer’s conduct or decisions with regard to a product or...more
A settled SEC enforcement action describes an alleged interesting social media fraud. Two defendants that reside in India were alleged to have been behind the fraud. According to the SEC the scheme was an online...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently investigated whether Cole Haan’s “Wandering Sole” social media contest violated Section 5 of the FTC Act, which prohibits deceptive practices. In doing so, the FTC issued a...more
Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with Snapchat, the young mobile messaging company. The complaint alleges misrepresentations about functionality and related security as well as privacy...more