FCC Announces $10 Million Proposed Forfeiture Over Data Security Practices
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently issued a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture proposing a $10 million penalty against TerraCom, Inc. and YourTel America, Inc. (collectively,...
View ArticleFTC Sends Dozens of Warning Letters to Companies Over Advertising Disclosures
It should be standard practice for companies to review the transparency of material disclaimers and disclosures in their advertising before every ad campaign. However, some companies tend to pack...
View ArticleHogan Lovells Partner Discusses Privacy Regulation with FTC Commissioner...
As the keynote speaker for the Winnik Forum, U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen sat down with Christopher Wolf, Co-Director of Hogan Lovells’ Privacy and Information...
View ArticleFTC Settles Claims Against Medical Billing Provider for Inadequate Data...
On December 3, 2014, the Federal Trade Commission announced two administrative settlements with a medical Billing Provider, PaymentsMD, LLC, and its former CEO, Michael Hughes, for allegedly...
View ArticleFTC Complaint Offers Lessons for Data Broker Industry
Two weeks ago, the FTC filed a district court complaint in Arizona against an operation that included three corporations and one individual. While touted as a case against data brokers (“FTC Charges...
View ArticleNTIA Launches Multistakeholder Process to Develop Privacy Best Practices for...
On March 4, the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced it is seeking comments on how to structure a new multistakeholder process to...
View ArticleCourt Allows FTC to Move Forward in “Common Carrier” Exemption Case
Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Edward M. Chen denied AT&T Mobility’s motion to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) October 2014 complaint alleging that AT&T engaged in unfair...
View ArticleFTC’s Latest Location-Tracking Settlement Reminds Companies to Mind Any Gap...
On April 23, the FTC accepted an administrative consent order with Nomi Technologies, Inc., which uses mobile device tracking technology to provide analytics services to retailers through its “Listen”...
View ArticleFTC Issues Data Security Guidance and Announces Data Security Conferences
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has published new guidance that “summarizes lessons learned” from the FTC’s 50-plus data security settlements while also announcing a series of data security...
View ArticleState AGs Demand Changes to Bankrupt Radio Shack’s Use of Customer Data
Last month, bankrupt company RadioShack settled with a coalition of seventeen attorneys general to destroy most of the company’s customer data in its files. The agreement was part of a Bankruptcy...
View ArticleFTC Settlement Reinforces Lessons for Data Broker Industry
The FTC has brought a number of actions over the years against companies that shared or failed to protect consumer information in violation of privacy policy promises or transferred data in violation...
View ArticleRecap of the OCR/NIST Conference on Safeguarding Health Information
Government officials and experts from the private sector discussed enabling precision medicine and efforts to bolster patients’ rights to access medical records, and also emphasized the importance of...
View ArticleRecording and Deck from Webinar: Safe Harbor Invalidated – What Next?
Thank you to everyone who participated in today’s webinar “Safe Harbor Invalidated – What Next?”, in which we analyzed the implications of yesterday’s decision by the Court of Justice of the European...
View ArticleUpcoming DC Program Explores Where We Are Headed with Section 5 of the FTC Act
Data privacy and security regulators don’t always agree. That’s no surprise to those observing the discussions that have followed the European Court of Justice’s decision to invalidate the adequacy of...
View ArticleFTC ALJ: Embarrassment/Emotional Harm and Risk of Harm Does Not Satisfy...
On November 13, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Chief Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) dismissed an FTC administrative complaint based on LabMD’s alleged failure to provide “reasonable and...
View ArticleFTC Report: “Big Data Can Create Opportunities or Shut People Out”
On Wednesday, January 5, the FTC released a report titled “Big Data: A Tool for Inclusion or Exclusion?” (the “Report”). The Report addresses the effects of the growing use of big data analytics on...
View ArticleThree Signs Your Native Ad Needs a Disclosure: The FTC Issues Native...
If you’ve ever opened your washing machine to find white socks turned a pale shade of pink, you can relate to the sentiment of Buzzfeed UK’s piece “14 Laundry Fails We’ve All Experienced.” Humorous and...
View ArticlePrivacy, Security, and IoT Prominent Themes at Silicon Flatirons DBM Conference
On January 31, 2016, the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado hosted its annual Digital Broadband Migration Symposium. The theme of this...
View ArticleFTC Says Listen Up When Vulnerability Reports Come In
The FTC wants companies to listen. More precisely, the FTC wants companies to pay attention to and promptly to respond to reports of security vulnerabilities. That’s a key takeaway from the...
View ArticleFirst Look: EU–U.S. Privacy Shield
On February 29, 2016, and after more than two years of negotiations with the U.S. Department of Commerce, the European Commission released its draft Decision on the adequacy of the new EU–U.S. Privacy...
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