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War of words regarding implementation of amendments to COPPA

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • April 24 2013

The long-awaited amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) have been the subject of much discussion and debate. Last week

Federal Trade Commission turns an eye to facial recognition

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • October 26 2012

This week the Federal Trade Commission released a best practices guide that outlines how companies using facial recognition can protect consumer privacy

LinkedIn password theft results in class action lawsuit

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 20 2012

Nearly as predictable as the sun coming up in the morning, the recent theft of 6.5 million LinkedIn user passwords has resulted in the filing of a class action lawsuit in a California federal court

FTC v. MySpace Part II the takeaways

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 23 2012

The FTC has again provided us with a road map to compliance through the Myspace consent order

Financial services legislative and regulatory update - May 21 2012

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • China, USA
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  • May 21 2012

The news last week was clearly dominated by JP Morgans trading loss

FTC consent order requires Myspace privacy assessments for 20 years: how can you keep the FTC out of your space?

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 15 2012

Once again, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a warning to companies with online privacy policies: if your privacy policy misrepresents protection of users’ personal information either directly or indirectly, you risk being charged with unfair and deceptive business practices under the FTC Act

President Obama: “American consumers can’t wait any longer.”

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • February 23 2012

At the White House today, President Obama unveiled his administration’s framework for new privacy regulations and the long-awaited white paper entitled “Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for Protecting Privacy and Promoting Innovation in the Global Digital Economy”

No motion to dismiss in Facebook “Sponsored Stories” case

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • December 21 2011

California district judge Lucy Koh has rejected a motion to dismiss brought by Facebook, Inc. in response to a lawsuit brought by plaintiffs Angel Fraley, et al. alleging that Facebook’s “Sponsored Stories” violate California’s Right to Publicity Statute (CA Civil Code 3334

Longer may not always be better: congressmen question Facebook’s prolix privacy policy

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • December 12 2011

Following on the heels of Facebook’s landmark settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, a bipartisan group of members of the House of Representatives has apparently read the “new and improved” Facebook privacy policy and were not impressed