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FTC tech blog suggests solution for plug-in COPPA compliance

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 24 2013

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Tech Blog recently commented on potential steps that website operators could take to facilitate compliance with

Potential circuit split may prime Supreme Court review of key privacy law

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 9 2013

Companies whose businesses involve the collection or use of consumers' personal information should keep an eye on the Seventh Circuit, which may be

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) developments

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 15 2010

On March 17, 2010, the FTC will host a day-long public roundtable discussion in Washington, DC to explore the privacy challenges posed by the vast array of 21st century technologies and business practices that collect and use consumer data

Telecom privacy news

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 29 2010

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed an amicus brief with the US Supreme Court last week in City of Ontario v. Quon, Case 08-1332. EFF said that text messages should be entitled to constitutional privacy protections prohibiting warrantless law enforcement searches

Netflix settles class action suit that alleges violation of privacy policy

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 30 2010

Netflix, Inc., which bills itself as the world’s largest online movie rental business, launched its Netflix Prize contest in October 2006

Telecom privacy news

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 15 2010

At an event hosted by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation in Washington, DC on March 11, 2010, Omnibus Broadband Initiative Executive Director Blair Levin discussed the improvements that could be accomplished if personal data could be shared online

Telecom privacy news

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • Italy, USA
  • -
  • March 31 2010

A court in Italy has convicted three Google executives of charges that they violated Italian law by allowing a video showing an autistic teenager being bullied to be posted online

Social networking developer faces class action related to online security breach

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 30 2010

A recently filed putative class action complaint claims that RockYou, Inc. (“RockYou”), a developer of social network applications, has put its 32 million users at risk of identity theft

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) developments

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 29 2010

The FTC announced that it has launched a review of, and is inviting public comment on, its rules implementing the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA

Legislative outlook

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 24 2010

On May 20, 2010, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John (“Jay”) Rockefeller, IV, D-W.Va., introduced S. 3386, the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act