3/2/2026 3:57:14 PM No Written Consent Needed for Robocalls, Says 5th Circuit By Andrew Folks On February 25, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit shook the telemarketing law snow globe. In Bradford v. Sovereign...
1/29/2026 6:52:07 PM Key Takeaways from the FTC’s Age Verification Workshop By Holly Melton On January 28, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission hosted a virtual public workshop examining age-verification technologies and their role...
12/24/2025 12:57:15 PM No More Rytr’s Block: FTC Reverses Course on AI Enforcement By Andrew Folks What a difference a year makes. One year ago, we blogged about the FTC’s settlement with Rytr LLC, an AI writing assistant provider...
12/23/2025 4:37:44 PM Three Recent AI Developments Worth Noting By Hannah Taylor New York Enacts First-of-Its-Kind AI Disclosure Law New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently signed S.8420-A/A.8887-B, a first-of-its-kind...
11/25/2025 9:01:52 PM When an AI Teddy Bear Crosses the Line: What the Kumma Incident Signals for Broader AI Regulation By Holly Melton The U.S. PIRG Education Fund’s Trouble in Toyland 2025 report put one product front and center just as families were gearing up for Black...
11/17/2025 1:37:55 PM NC and Utah AGs Launch AI Task Force By Jeff Greenbaum Last week, North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson and Utah Attorney General Derek Brown announced that they had formed a bipartisan...
11/5/2025 5:03:03 PM Plaintiffs Target Email Subject Lines in New Class Action Trend By Regina Gerhardt Marketers are facing a new kind of email litigation risk, this time focused squarely on subject lines. Plaintiffs in Washington are...
10/9/2025 2:27:21 PM Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance Releases Third Edition of Privacy Guide By Jeff Greenbaum The Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance just released the third edition of Privacy Law: A Global Legal Perspective on Data Protection...
8/29/2025 6:05:49 PM Washington State's New Ad Tax By Andrew Folks Starting October 1, 2025, businesses in the digital advertising and data processing sectors will need to account for a new tax. The...
8/15/2025 1:49:54 PM Texas Targets Texts By Andrew Folks Texas has overhauled its telemarketing law (Texas Business & Commerce Code § 302). Senate Bill 140, effective September 1, 2025, expands...
8/13/2025 8:19:08 PM AGs Target Voice Providers in Coordinated Robocall Enforcement Sweep By Holly Melton On August 12, a coalition of Attorneys General announced “Operation Robocall Roundup”—a multistate enforcement action aimed squarely at...
2/22/2025 8:17:14 PM FTC Releases Initial Findings On Surveillance Pricing Study By Terri Seligman As I blogged about back in August, the FTC issued orders under its Section 6(b) authority to several companies that offer “surveillance...
10/10/2024 8:34:43 PM FTC Gets Record Penalty in CAN-SPAM Enforcement Action By Terri Seligman Remember my 2023 blog post about a CAN-SPAM enforcement action? (No?!?) I noted the rarity of such actions and remarked that the FTC’s...
10/10/2024 11:51:28 AM FTC Examines Data and Advertising Practices of Streaming Services, Makes Key Recommendations to Address Concerns By Kate Patton A Federal Trade Commission staff report released last month and discussed during the last open meeting of the Commission examines certain...
10/1/2024 11:44:58 AM FTC Announces AI Sweep By Hannah Taylor The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently initiated a law enforcement sweep, Operation AI Comply, against multiple companies that the...
7/11/2024 2:50:15 AM FTC Bans Anonymous Messaging App from Offering App to Kids Under 18; Secures $5 Million Settlement By Jordyn Milewski The FTC announced yesterday that NGL Labs (the company behind anonymous messaging app, “NGL: ask me anything”) and two of its co-founders...