Gerard Stegmaier

Firm/Organization: Reed Smith LLP

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FTC and state law enforcement officials announce initiative targeting illegal telemarketing

By Gerard Stegmaier & Mark Quist on June 28, 2019

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a joint state-and-federal initiative, “Operation Call It Quits,” which targets illegal telemarketing practices that violate the FTC’s Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR). The TSR, which applies to interstate telephonic marketing communications intended to “induce the purchase of goods or services or a charitable contribution,” makes it illegal to engage in “abusive” acts and practices like failing to transmit caller identification information, calling telephone numbers listed on the National Do Not…

Technology Law Dispatch

FTC and state law enforcement officials step up efforts against illegal telemarketing

By Gerard Stegmaier & Mark Quist on June 27, 2019

Technology Law Dispatch

FTC settlement and warning letters over cross-border personal data transfers

By Mark Quist & Gerard Stegmaier on June 17, 2019

The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recently announced settlement with background check provider SecurTest, Inc. shows the agency remains vigilant regarding businesses’ claims that they comply with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (Privacy Shield). Privacy Shield provides U.S. businesses with a legally recognized mechanism for receiving personal data in the United States from the EU. In its complaint against SecurTest, the FTC alleges that for several months SecurTest falsely claimed on its website that it complied…

Technology Law Dispatch

What businesses should know about the upcoming CCPA rulemaking

By Gerard Stegmaier & Mark Quist on May 5, 2019

With barely half a year until the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) takes effect in January 2020, the landmark privacy law is in a state of flux. The already-amended landmark law is likely to face further rounds of revision, and the California Attorney General is required to hammer out many key compliance requirements through an administrative rulemaking. Gerry Stegmaier and Mark Quist recently co-authored an article for the Washington Legal Foundation examining the key issues…

Technology Law Dispatch

California lawmakers propose new CCPA amendments that address major concerns of the business community while preserving the privacy law

By Xiaoyan Zhang, Gerard Stegmaier & Kimberly Gold on May 2, 2019

Last week, the California Assembly’s Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection, which exercises jurisdiction over privacy and personal information protection matters, approved several amendment bills intended to clarify and narrow the scope of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA or the Act). In January 2020, the CCPA will impose landmark burdens and obligations on businesses that in many respects go beyond those required by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Businesses nationwide will be…

Technology Law Dispatch

In privacy we (anti)trust: Regulators worldwide consider competition law as tool for consumer protection

By Gerard Stegmaier, Jennifer Driscoll & Jim Barbuto on March 21, 2019

On February 26, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Bureau of Competition announced a new Technology Task Force, which will monitor anticompetitive conduct in U.S. technology markets “to ensure consumers benefit from free and fair competition.” With the consumer protection agency already a chief arbiter of privacy enforcement in the tech sector, the new task force increases the likelihood that the continued convergence between competition and consumer protection policy, which began in earnest at…

Technology Law Dispatch

California Attorney General proposes expanded CCPA Private Right of Action following State Assembly Hearing on possible 2019 amendments to the landmark privacy law

By Gerard Stegmaier & Mark Quist on February 26, 2019

BREAKING: California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (AG) announced a proposed series of amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) that would: Expand consumers’ private right of action to include all alleged violations of their rights under the CCPA; Eliminate businesses’ 30-day opportunity to “cure” alleged violations prior to being subject to civil enforcement by the AG (cure provision); and Eliminate businesses’ right to ask the AG’s opinion on how to comply with the CCPA.…

Technology Law Dispatch

President prioritizes research, development, and deployment of artificial intelligence technology

By Gerard Stegmaier & Wendell Bartnick on February 13, 2019

The President has made artificial intelligence technology a policy priority. On February 11, 2019, the President issued an Executive Order to direct most federal executive agencies to promote and protect American advancements in artificial intelligence while working with private industry. The order recognized that public trust in artificial intelligence is an important factor in the development and use of the technologies, and highlights the need to “protect civil liberties, privacy, and American values in their…

Technology Law Dispatch

European Commission publishes second annual report on EU-U.S. Privacy Shield

By Cynthia O’Donoghue, Gerard Stegmaier, Bart Huffman & John O'Brien on December 20, 2018

Following our previous blog on the upcoming second annual review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, the European Commission published its report on 19 December 2018. In its report, the Commission concludes that the level of protection for personal data transferred under the Privacy Shield from the European Union to the United States continues to be adequate. The Privacy Shield’s terms must be reviewed every year. You can find our blog post on the first annual…

Technology Law Dispatch

FDA revamps cybersecurity guidance for marketed medical devices

By Kevin Madagan, Mildred Segura, Gerard Stegmaier, Maryanne Woo, Wendell Bartnick, Christopher Butler & David Krone on November 7, 2018

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a draft update to its premarket cybersecurity guidance for device makers on October 18, 2018. The expanded draft guidance includes recommendations on tiered classification of cybersecurity risk, trustworthiness, cybersecurity bill materials, and device cybersecurity labeling that are specific enough to be helpful to manufacturers while at the same time keeping the guidance sufficiently flexible to comply with an industry filled with advancing devices that pose greater and more…

Gerard Stegmaier

FTC and state law enforcement officials announce initiative targeting illegal telemarketing

FTC and state law enforcement officials step up efforts against illegal telemarketing

FTC settlement and warning letters over cross-border personal data transfers

What businesses should know about the upcoming CCPA rulemaking

California lawmakers propose new CCPA amendments that address major concerns of the business community while preserving the privacy law

In privacy we (anti)trust: Regulators worldwide consider competition law as tool for consumer protection

California Attorney General proposes expanded CCPA Private Right of Action following State Assembly Hearing on possible 2019 amendments to the landmark privacy law

President prioritizes research, development, and deployment of artificial intelligence technology

European Commission publishes second annual report on EU-U.S. Privacy Shield

FDA revamps cybersecurity guidance for marketed medical devices

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