In 2017, California updated its automatic renewal law to create some of the strictest requirements in the country. Now, just four years later, the Governor Newsom signed a new law that will impose even stricter requirements.
Continue Reading California Updates its Automatic Renewal Law
Last week, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 694, which makes a few technical changes to the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). The relevant changes to the CPRA are summarized below.
Continue Reading CPRA Update: California Legislature Makes Technical Changes to CPRA
As we have noted in earlier posts, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s holding that Section 13(b) of the FTC Act does not allow for monetary restitution, the Federal Trade Commission has been attempting to creatively utilize other
Continue Reading FTC Blankets Companies With Warning Letters Over Endorsements and Reviews
Since Congress enacted the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in 1998, the regulatory wall between kids and teens has been a remarkably durable one. During all this time, COPPA, the primary U.S. law protecting kids’ privacy, has
Continue Reading Cracks in the Privacy Wall Between Kids and Teens: Is Teen Privacy Legislation on the Horizon?
Last week, California’s Governor signed a law that will likely impose significant limitations on companies’ abilities to make recyclability claims or use the popular “chasing arrows” symbol in California.
The law states that using a “chasing arrows symbol, a chasing
Continue Reading California Imposes New Restrictions on Recyclability Claims
It was an extraordinary week as the FTC continued to press the frontier of the post-AMG Capital Management landscape.
On Friday, the Commission, making good on promises to creatively explore all of its options for enforcement, announced by a 3-2
Continue Reading Pushing the Boundaries of Existing Authority: Section 19 Post-AMG Capital Management
On October 6, 2021, the Senate Commerce Committee conducted its second in a series of hearings dedicated to consumer privacy and data, this time addressing Data Security. Similar to last week’s privacy hearing, the witnesses and Senators appeared
Continue Reading Hope Emerges at Senate Data Security Hearing – But Will Congress Grab the Brass Ring?
Making good on promises to creatively explore all of its options for enforcement, the FTC yesterday notified 70 for-profit higher educational institutions that it intends to use its long dormant Penalty Offense Authority to obtain civil penalties when institutions make
Continue Reading FTC Threatens 70 Colleges with Civil Penalties in Attempt to Resurrect Penalty Offense Authority
During last month’s California Privacy Protection Agency Board (CPPA) meeting, the only substantive agenda item, addressed in closed session, was a discussion of two key appointments: the first Executive Director and a Chief Privacy Auditor, as required by
Continue Reading Soltani Appointed as Inaugural California Privacy Protection Agency Executive Director
If the summer slide and the start of school kept you too busy to follow what’s going on in the food scene, we hear you! Catch up on key developments below in this issue of our Food Industry Litigation and
Continue Reading Food Industry Litigation and Regulatory Highlights, July – September 2021
