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FTC fires warning shots over children’s online privacy

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 18 2013

The Federal Trade Commission continues to ramp up its campaign to protect children's privacy. In January, the FTC published its amended rule

Online ad companies update self-regulatory code

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 18 2013

The Network Advertising Initiative, a coalition of online advertising companies (including AOL, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!) has updated its rules

Attorney General supports ECPA amendment

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 18 2013

In response to questions during a House Judiciary Committee hearing last week, Attorney General Eric Holder voiced his support for amending the

Another decryption request bites the dust

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 11 2013

A federal magistrate in Wisconsin has ruled, in In the Matter of the Decryption of a Seized Data Storage System, that the government cannot force a

How do you search the cloud?

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 11 2013

A federal magistrate judge recently rejected a government request for a search warrant that would allow it to surreptitiously install data extraction

Yes, I really am Angela Merkel

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • May 4 2013

Facebook can keep forcing its German users to disclose their real names in order to register for and continue using the social network, after an

NIST updates cybersecurity guidelines

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 4 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has updated its cybersecurity guidelines "Special Publication 800-53, Revision 4:

Colombia’s data protection law takes effect

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Colombia
  • -
  • April 27 2013

Columbia's data protection law, officially published on October 18, 2012, as Statute Law No. 1581, is now in effect. Modeled after the EU Data

FTC issues compliance guide for COPPA requirements

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 27 2013

In late 2012, the Federal Trade Commission issued an amended rule implementing the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). As we reported

German regulator fines Google over privacy violations

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • April 27 2013

A German privacy regulator has fined Google Inc. 145,000 (around $189,000) for violating the country's data protection laws. The Hamburg