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Google Presses Pause on Joint Investigation by Agreeing to Record-Setting COPPA Settlement
The FTC and the New York Attorney General recently announced a record-setting $170 million ($136 million to the FTC and $34 million to the NY AG) joint settlement with Google. The settlement resolves allegations that…
New Hampshire Enacts New Insurance Data Security Law
Effective January 1, 2020, New Hampshire’s new Insurance Data Security Law will impose certain information security requirements on entities that (1) are licensed under the state’s insurance laws and (2) handle…
CCPA Update: California Senate Committee Approves Privacy Law Amendments
Amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) continued to advance on Monday, as the California legislature returned from its summer recess. With just five weeks to go until the September 13th deadline for…
What Facebook’s Next 20 Years Will Look Like: Is This the Future of US Privacy?
Even in her extensive dissent, FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter labeled the Order “exceptional.” And it is. The terms of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) $5 billion, twenty-year settlement Order reached with…
Tech Innovation Prompting Revisions to Children’s Privacy Law? FTC Reviewing COPPA Rule and Holding Workshop
The FTC announced today that it is seeking comments on a variety of issues related to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection (COPPA) Rule. Although only six years have passed since the FTC’s 2013 COPPA Rule update,…