CPW has been tracking Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) activity in the realm of privacy and cybersecurity in 2021. Last Friday, the FTC issued a notice (“Notice”) that it was “considering initiating a rulemaking under Section 18 of the FTC Act to curb lax security practices, limit privacy abuses, and ensure that algorithmic decision-making does not
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In April this year the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a press release (the “April Release”) signaling the agency’s focus on advances in artificial intelligence (“AI”) going forward. The April Release highlighted the FTC’s purported concern with how advances in AI could be utilized without “inadvertently introducing bias or other unfair outcomes” to medicine, finance,
The influence of influencers on social media is a modern day phenomenon that marketers harness to develop more organic and grassroots connections with consumers, and influencers are able to monetize those connections. It is a symbiotic relationship, though one that is not necessarily clear to consumers.
When an influencer gets something of value to promote
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Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) released a final rule amending the Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information (commonly referred to as the “Safeguards Rule”) promulgated under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”). The final Safeguards Rule, approved by the FTC Commissioners along party lines, will require financial institutions to make significant changes in their information
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This month, CPW’s Kyle Fath, Kristin Bryan & Elizabeth Helpling explained how data privacy and cybersecurity were Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) priorities. As they wrote, there were “three key areas of interest to consumer privacy that are now in the FTC’s spotlight, as well as their relation to state privacy legislation and their anticipated
Although class actions are a frequently utilized vehicle for individuals seeking to vindicate their privacy rights, companies can also run the risk of an enforcement action brought by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) (pursuant to the FTC’s authority under Section 5 of the FTC Act). One recent example of the FTC’s exercise of this authority
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