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Everyone's nightmare: privacy and data breach risks

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Global, USA
  • -
  • May 22 2013

The rapid growth of information in electronim form has resulted in a concomitant exposure of companies to risks and liabilities arising from the

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

New COPPA rule broadens and clarifies children’s privacy obligations of online and mobile companies, but backtracks on many previously proposed changes that would have disrupted the advertising and publishing industries

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 19 2012

The FTC has ended a two-year long process of revising the rules implementing the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA Rule), which is now a decade old and set to expire in 2014

FTC sniffs out online advertising network charged with deceptively gathering data on consumers

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 11 2012

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) on Dec. 5, 2012, announced that it settled claims against Epic Marketplace, Inc., an online advertising network, and its wholly owned subsidiary, Epic Media LLC (collectively, “Epic”) that will stop Epic from tracking consumer’s browser history (a process called “history sniffing”) without their knowledge and without disclosing the practice in Epic’s privacy policy

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

Court finds Youtube not liable to Viacom for copyright infringement because Youtube complied with requirements of federal safe harbors

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 29 2010

After three years of contentious litigation, the federal court hearing the dispute between Viacom and YouTube has dismissed almost all of Viacom's $1 billion of claims

Consumer privacy litigation alert: a rash of behavioral advertising class actions have been filed implicating company websites and mobile applications

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 21 2011

We all receive advertisements when we surf the web, many of which are targeted at us based upon our personal website behavior

FTC scolds mobile industry for children’s privacy failures and opens investigations

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 10 2012

Following a February 2012 report chastising the mobile app industry for not disclosing data privacy practices in connection with apps directed to children, the FTC has issued a follow-up report that concludes the industry has not improved

Federal scrutiny of evolving media practices continues to evolve

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 23 2011

The Federal government, so far as online advertising, privacy and data security practices are concerned, roared into March 2011 like a lion, but hardly left like a lamb

Class action lawyers “like” Facebook decision, which impacts social media advertising

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 20 2012

A group of Facebook users have successfully advanced their right of publicity case against Facebook beyond the pleadings stage after overcoming the social media giant’s motion to dismiss their lawsuit on various grounds before the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose, California

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