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New HIPAA regulations released

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • January 18 2013

On January 17, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released final regulations implementing changes to HIPAA mandated by the HITECH

CA AG warns that mobile apps need better privacy disclosures in 2013 to avoid prosecution by new unit

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • January 14 2013

The January 10, 2013 California Attorney general report titled Privacy on the Go - Recommendations for the Mobile Ecosystem ("CA AG Mobile Privacy

CA state AG issues broad report on mobile apps more obligations and enforcement coming

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 11 2013

In a ground-breaking report titled Privacy On the Go: Recommendations for the Mobile Ecosystem (issued January 10, 2013), the California Attorney

Special access order commencing reform: FCC initiates comprehensive data collection

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

The Federal Communications Commission ("FCC" or "Commission"), in continuing the process of reviewing its special access rules "to ensure that they reflect the state of competition today in the market for special access services and promote competition, investment, and access to dedicated communications services," issued a Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on December 18, 2012

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
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  • 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

Mobile privacy a big issue for companies using mobile apps to reach their customers for 2013.

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • USA
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  • December 17 2012

The issues surrounding mobile privacy have garnered heightened attention by the FTC, President Obama’s administration, the California AG and the class action bar over the past 10 months

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

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • 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

D.C. Circuit affirms FCC's data roaming rule

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • December 6 2012

On December 4, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed the Federal Communications Commission's April 7, 2011 Data Roaming Order which instituted the "data roaming rule

Companies with web sites and apps should learn from recent FTC suit involving web site analytics

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • October 26 2012

Analytics are crucial for web site and mobile app operators to understand their audience in order to provide a better user experience and to improve traffic and sales