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Another Missive from the Data Breach Front: Remote Risk of Identity Theft Does Not Confer Standing in Allison v. Aetna
Allison v. Aetna, Inc., a recent opinion out of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, adds to the burgeoning area of law that holds when a plaintiff fails to allege an actual injury resulting from a data breach, but…
FTC Plans for Internet Privacy Framework
This post was written by Alysa Z. Hutnik . On Tuesday, April 26, 2010, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it intends to develop Internet privacy guidelines. The guidelines will examine social…
FTC Initiative Promotes Advertising Literacy for Kids
The Federal Trade Commission has launched a multi-media campaign through the website www.admongo.gov to educate children and teens, ages 8 to 12, about advertising. With “tweens” becoming a larger and more important…
MMA Updated Consumer Best Practice Guidelines
This week, the Mobile Marketing Association released the latest version of its U.S. Consumer Best Practices Guidelines for Cross-Carrier Mobile Content Services . The guidelines are the industry standard for…
UPDATE: Data Breaches on the Rise in 2010
Updating a previous post regarding the rise last year in the number of data breaches involving customers’ personal information in the general business sector, the numbers of these breaches for the first third of…