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In late May, the Federal Trade Commission sought an injunction in the Northern District of California against Edmodo, which has historically offered school districts a virtual classroom platform with tools [...]

2023 promises historic change for the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General with Andrea Campbell sworn in as the new Attorney General earlier this year. Andrea Campbell ran a campaign [...]

Recently signed into law by California Governor Gavin Newsom on September 15, 2022, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act ('AADC') changes the playing field for certain businesses that provide online [...]

As we had previously blogged, the FTC in guidance following the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health indicated that it would aggressively wield its enforcement authority in [...]

In the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, state attorneys general are, not surprisingly, joining the frontlines of the ensuing state-by-state debate on [...]

As states have continued to debate and pass new comprehensive privacy statutes - such as those in Virginia and Colorado - a common refrain from business leaders is the need [...]

On July 7, 2022, three federal agencies - the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the Department of the Treasury - issued a joint alert [...]

As we wrote last year, Colorado is among the vanguard of privacy-focused states-including California, Washington, and Virginia-to adopt significant state-level privacy legislation. One year out from enforcement of the Colorado [...]

President Biden and EU leaders announced on March 25, 2022 an agreement in principle to craft a replacement for the Privacy Shield and expand options for trans-Atlantic data transfers in [...]

On May 9, 2019, a coalition of consumer groups submitted a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission ('FTC') regarding Amazon's Echo Dot Kids Edition, arguing that the device runs afoul [...]

Aaron Ford will bring a wide array of legal and political experiences, as well as consumer protection zeal, to the Nevada Attorney General's Office in his coming four year term. [...]

This blog post is one of a series of posts highlighting newly elected Attorneys General, and commenting on how their priorities may differ from their predecessors'. Click here to read [...]

On April 13, 2018, Massachusetts' highest court ended a significant chapter in Exxon's long-running dispute with Attorney General Maura Healey. In 2015, Healey issued a Civil Investigative Demand regarding Exxon's [...]

The FTC's COPPA Guidance does an admirable job explaining the basics of what a business needs to do to comply with COPPA, but is vague as to how a business [...]

In the last week of December 2017, Democratic senators introduced the 'Accountability for Wall Street Executives Act of 2017,' which would amend the National Banking Act to allow state AGs [...]

Like many things in Washington, the HIPAA landscape in 2018 will be shaped by the shifting priorities of President Trump's new administration. Early signs point to less funding for the [...]

On May 1, 2017, Maine Governor Paul LePage sued Maine Attorney General Janet Mills in the culmination of a long-running dispute over the Governor's ability to retain outside counsel when [...]

In Maryland, unlike in some other states, the attorney general has historically required the governor's or legislature's express permission to undertake legal action against the federal government. In late February, [...]

Privacy advocates in both the United States and Europe are urging regulators to take a hard look at the privacy ramifications of internet-connected toys, which are often conventional toys augmented [...]

In the first of what are becoming regular clashes between Democratic state attorneys general and the new President, the attorneys general of Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, [...]

For internet-of-things watchers, some information to chew on: several news outlets have reported on a dispute between Amazon and law enforcement investigators in Bentonville, Arkansas. Arkansas police are investigating an [...]

Editor's Note: This is the third in a continuing end-of-year series. See our previous posts on trade secrets and state regulation and law enforcement. Up next: the changing threat landscape. [...]

This week in the Northern District of Texas, U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade heard oral argument on Exxon Mobil's motion for preliminary injunction against Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey's civil [...]

State AGs are once again taking a major partisan issue to the federal courts. On August 21, 2016, at the urging of the State AG of Texas, as well as [...]

Non-competition agreements are common - and commonly litigated - throughout several fields, such as sales, technology, and medicine. Protection of trade secrets and the maintenance of long-term customer relationships are [...]

The FTC settled with mobile advertising company InMobi for $950,000 in civil penalties, along with the implementation of a privacy program, based on the FTC's charges that InMobi impermissibly tracked [...]

The summer movie season is now officially in full swing, with the release of three informational videos regarding HIPAA and the right of individuals to access their medical records, published [...]

What began with an investigation by NY AG Eric Schneiderman, later joined by California AG Kamala Harris, has become a multistate AG investigation into Exxon's knowledge of the contributions of [...]

Tax season 'tis the season to be phishing, according to the IRS. The IRS has issued a warning to payroll and human resources professionals about a 'surge' in phishing emails [...]

On February 25, 2016, Indiana AG Greg Zoeller became the sixth AG, along with those of Texas, Wisconsin, Kansas, Louisiana, and Nebraska, to join in a lawsuit challenging the implementation [...]

The COPPA Rule requires website and online service operators to give notice to parents and obtain verifiable parental consent before collecting children's 'personal information' online. 16 CFR §§ 312.4, 312.5. [...]

Several news outlets are reporting that NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has begun an anti-trust investigation of the National Football League's ticketing practices. Though AG Schneiderman's office has not yet [...]

As holiday moviegoers shattered box office records this past weekend, both the Department of Justice and ten state attorneys general were in the midst of investigating why so many movie [...]

While the Schrems decision invalidating the US-EU Safe Harbor Program is rightly attracting a great deal of attention (as well as blogging and webinars) - and leaving many wondering what [...]

Delaware Attorney General Matt Denn is serious about online privacy, and aims to make Delaware 'the safest state in America for kids to use the internet.' This August, Delaware Governor [...]

Over one year ago, our colleague Chris Hart argued that the District of New Jersey court's decision in FTC v. Wyndham Worldwide Corp. et. al., No. 13-1887-ES, 'point[ed] to the [...]

Smart grids - electrical grids that allow two-way communication between utilities and consumers - represent an exciting frontier in the Internet of Things, with ramifications for energy efficiency, weather resiliency [...]

The first ever Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection was convened today at Stanford University, keynoted by President Obama. The purpose of the summit: to 'bring[] together major stakeholders on [...]

In an age when many of us briskly scroll through website terms and conditions and check, 'I agree' without thinking, how should businesses design their websites to obtain proper authorization [...]

Yelp's $450,000 settlement with the FTC in September should serve as an important reminder for all owners and operators of websites or mobile apps - even if your site is [...]

The highly publicized hacking of the iCloud accounts of dozens of celebrities was disclosed over Labor Day weekend and has raised larger, more serious concerns regarding the security of personal [...]

Last week, the FTC announced approval of a new Safe Harbor Program under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), called iKeepSafe. The program was created by the Internet Keep [...]

The FTC's July 10, 2014 complaint filed against Amazon has left app developers with concerns about how to make apps that target kids and still comply with the law. The [...]

The revised Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ('COPPA') Rules, as discussed here previously were meant to bring regulations in line with, in the FTC's words, the 'rapid-fire pace of technological [...]