On July 24, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) handed Facebook a $5 billion penalty for continuously misrepresenting to its users how it was sharing their personal data. The $5 billion penalty is the largest civil penalty imposed for a data privacy violation and puts companies on notice that the FTC is serious about how […]
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July 18, 2019 In April, the St. Louis Blues (the “Blues”) hockey team made an improbable run from being dead-last in the standings in January, to winning the National Hockey League’s (“NHL”) Stanley Cup Final at season’s end. Throughout that run, Laura Branigan’s 1982 disco hit “Gloria” became the Blues signature song used to celebrate
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July 15, 2019 On March 1, 2019, the Peoples Bank and Trust Company (“Bank”) agreed to a stipulation and order with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) based in part on alleged violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”). The FDIC’s TCPA action order also alleged that the Bank violated Section 8(i)(2) of the
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July 10, 2019 At the end of June, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed into law a massive gaming initiative, which includes legalized sports gambling. While the sports gambling law’s passage does not mean that wagers on sporting events can be accepted right away, it does represent a major legal change in one of the country’s
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July 9, 2019 On May 9, 2019, New York State Senator Kevin Thomas introduced S5642, the New York Privacy Act (the “Act”), to amend the general business law in relation to the management and oversight of consumer personal information. Senator Thomas, citing a 2014 Pew survey, is concerned that Americans may have lost control over
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July 8, 2019 Similar to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) grants consumers the right to submit an information request to (and obtain certain information from) businesses with respect to how those businesses collect, store, process, use and share the subject consumers’ personal information. Under the statute, in
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