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FTC rejects industry request to delay new child privacy rules

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 8 2013

Revisions to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act's implementing regulations (COPPA Rule) go into effect on July 1, 2013. The Federal Trade

FTC clarifies new federal privacy rules that affect companies targeting kids, adults and a mix of kids and adults, but questions remain

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 25 2013

The FTC staff has issued guidance to its January 2013 updates to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) regulations (COPPA Rule), which

European data protection authorities clarify principle of purpose limitation

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • April 17 2013

On 8 April 2013, the EU data protection authorities of the Article 29 Working Party announced that they had adopted an opinion on purpose limitation

Regulators are expressing heightened interest in mobile apps and privacy enforcement: is your company prepared?

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 3 2013

On March 28, 2013, one of the Federal Trade Commission's ("FTC") privacy division attorneys predicted that the FTC will continue to remain focused on

The EU Article 29 Working Party calls on the app industry to tweak mobile privacy

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • March 22 2013

On 14 March 2013, the EU data protection authorities of the Article 29 Working Party announced that they had adopted an opinion addressing the key

HIPAA enforcement rule sets standards for penalties: will your HIPAA compliance program stand up?

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 12 2013

As we reported here and here, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") recently issued final regulations (the "Omnibus Final Rule"

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court expands consumer zip code privacy protection in Tyler v. Michaels Stores

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 12 2013

In a closely watched case with a somewhat unexpected result, the highest Massachusetts court decided in Tyler v. Michaels Stores that zip codes are

US Supreme Court limits standing to sue in a case that will likely impact privacy and data breach plaintiffs

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 5 2013

In a case that could have important implications for plaintiffs attempting to establish data breach and privacy claims, the United States Supreme

European Commission consults on revised technology transfer block exemption

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • February 26 2013

On 20 February 2013, the European Commission (Commission) opened a public consultation on a new draft regulation and guidelines to replace the

New security for sub-licensees?

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 25 2013

The conventional view in the UK has been that a sub-licensee has no greater rights than his sub-licensor and so a sub-licence ends when the