17 Dec, 2024 What the “Sad Beige Lawsuit” Can Teach Us About IP in the Influencer Space By Hannah Taylor Molly Rothschild At its core, the case the internet is referring to as the “sad beige lawsuit” is a feud between two social media influencers, Sydney...
07 Aug, 2024 FTC Announces Inquiry Into “Surveillance Pricing” By Terri Seligman In a recent press release, the FTC announced that it has issued orders to companies that offer “surveillance pricing products and...
20 Mar, 2023 IAB Announces Joint Task Force to Revise Standard Digital Media Buy Terms By Rayna Lopyan After more than ten years, the Standard Terms & Conditions for Internet Advertising used by most participants in the advertising industry...
27 Feb, 2023 California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act Impact: Five Things Advertisers Need to Know By Emma Smizer Rick Borden In a recent blog post, we covered a new California law, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (the “AADC”), that will have...
22 Feb, 2023 CPRA Regs: 8 New Obligations You Need to Know By Daniel Goldberg Over the prior year, we’ve received numerous questions about what obligations the CPRA Regs will add to the underlying statute. On...
08 Feb, 2023 FTC Reaches $1.5M Settlement With GoodRx for Allegedly Improperly Sharing Health Information With Advertisers By Bram Schumer GoodRx, a popular drug discount website and application used by millions of Americans, entered into a $1.5 million settlement with the...
27 Jan, 2023 Massive 'Vastflux' Adware Scam Affected Millions of Phones, Thousands of Apps, Hundreds of Publishers By Bram Schumer Imagine a billboard on Sunset Boulevard. Before anything goes up, the billboard’s owner casts about looking for the highest bidder,...
15 Nov, 2022 Google Settles Location-Tracking Probe for Record-Breaking $391.5 Million By Bram Schumer Google has agreed to pay a historic settlement of $391.5 million to end a privacy investigation brought by 40 state attorneys general...
18 Oct, 2022 Takeaways from the Modified CPRA Regs By Daniel Goldberg On Monday, the CPPA released the modified text of proposed CPRA Regs (modified Regs) and an accompanying explanation of the modified text...
31 Aug, 2022 CA Passes Children’s Privacy Bill By Jessica Carballo California has passed a landmark bill aimed at protecting children online. The California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act instructs...
26 Aug, 2022 Takeaways from the California AG’s $1.2 Million CCPA Enforcement Action By Daniel Goldberg Earlier this week, the California AG announced its first public enforcement action and settlement for alleged violations of CCPA as well...
15 Aug, 2022 Ad Targeting and Behavioral Marketing Targeted by Consumer Protection Regulator By Terri Seligman Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued an interpretive rule addressing the activities of digital marketing...
04 Jun, 2022 Friday I’m Reading CPRA (Again) By Daniel Goldberg For the second week in a row, the CPPA has dropped a bombshell on a Friday afternoon. Last week, the CPPA released a 66 page first draft...
28 Apr, 2022 BBB Lays Out Teen Privacy Best Practices By Jessica Carballo Last week, BBB National Programs’ Center for Industry Self-Regulation announced the launch of the TeenAge Privacy Program (TAPP) Roadmap,...
13 Mar, 2022 California AG Issues Written Opinion on Internally Generated Inferences By Daniel Goldberg Yesterday, the California AG issued a rare written opinion on a question of law arising under CCPA. Specifically, the AG addressed the...
31 Jan, 2022 Is Congress taking steps to ban targeted advertising? By Rayna Lopyan That remains to be seen, but Democrats have recently proposed a new bill, the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act, that would put...