15 Feb, 2024 FTC Proposes To Prohibit the Impersonation of Individuals By Zach Lewis As AI-powered chat bots, voice cloning, and deepfakes cause increasing harm to consumers (and celebrities like Taylor Swift), the FTC is...
26 Oct, 2023 Will We See You at the ANA Masters of Advertising Law Conference? By Jeff Greenbaum From November 15th through the 17th, the Association of National Advertisers will be hosting its annual Masters of Advertising Law...
02 Aug, 2023 FloSports Settles "Meta Pixel" Litigation Claim for $2.6 Million By Zach Lewis Daniel Goldberg In a development highlighting the recent wave of litigation around tracking technologies, live event streaming platform FloSports Inc....
26 Feb, 2023 FTC Launches Office of Technology to Support its "Commitment to Protecting Consumers in the Digital Marketplace" By Jeff Greenbaum The Federal Trade Commission recently announced that it is launching a new Office of Technology in order to "strengthen the FTC’s ability...
12 Jan, 2023 Mental Health Startup Criticized for AI Use By Maria Nava Last week , Koko, a mental health startup, received significant public criticism for allegedly using an artificial intelligence chatbot...
02 Dec, 2022 Can NAD rule on a piece of collateral that the challenger had no business seeing? By Terri Seligman Apparently so. In what may have been an issue of first impression in the self-regulatory forum, NAD examined the claims in a sales...
05 Apr, 2021 Does Advertising a Product as "Wireless" Mean That it Has Wireless Charging? By Jeff Greenbaum When a product is advertised as "wireless," does that mean that the product offers wireless charging as well? This was the issue in a...
16 Mar, 2021 Antenna Company Settles FTC Charges That it Misled Consumers About its Products' Functionality By Jeff Greenbaum The Federal Trade Commission announced that it reached a settlement with a television antenna company and its CEO, resolving allegations...
03 Mar, 2020 I’m in Love With My Car (and the Digital Audio Recording Device Embodied Therein) By Brian Murphy In the late 1980s, the music industry faced what it considered, at the time, to be an existential threat. A new category of digital...
17 Nov, 2018 New FTC Report to Congress Highlights FTC's Enforcement Priorities By Jeff Greenbaum Last week, the FTC issued its Fiscal Year 2018 Agency Financial Report. The report discusses the FTC's finances, highlights its...
21 Aug, 2018 Tech Companies Signal Willingness to Collaborate on Nationwide Uniform Online Data Security By Dorian Thomas Recent enactments of state privacy protection laws have left a patchwork of legislation concerning online data security to which...
26 Jun, 2018 Uber Decision Reinforces the Standard Required for Consent to a Digital Agreement By Greg Boyd A three judge panel in the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals found that the arbitration clause in the Uber driver app was not enforceable....
06 Mar, 2018 FTC Loosens Consent Order Restrictions for Sears By Greg Boyd Prior to 2009, Sears paid consumers $10 to download certain software that would track the user's browsing history. The FTC said that the...