By Trishla Ostwal With a year to go before California’s Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)—which aims to prevent businesses from sharing peoples’ data—comes into effect, big tech companies and their lobbyists are actively engaged in limiting the impact of the law. In the public comments released by the state regulatory body California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), tech giants like Google and […]
On October 22, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) published an enforcement policy statement on negative option marketing. Soon thereafter, on October 28, 2021, the FTC issued a press release explaining that its guidelines are meant to serve as a warning to businesses against employing deceptive sign-up tactics and/or illegal dark patterns that trap consumers
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On July 1, 2021, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) imposes a deadline on businesses that buy, receive, sell and/or share for commercial purposes the personal information of 10,000,000 or more California residents in a calendar year. Originally, the CCPA regulations had established a threshold of 4,000,000 consumers. The California Attorney General’s Office increased the
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August 8, 2019 A trial court in California recently issued a ruling interpreting California Business and Professions Code Section 17529.5 (“17529.5”) in Greenberg et al. v. Digital Media Solutions LLC et al., CGC-18-572010 that has the potential to profoundly impact the email marketing industry. In dismissing claims for alleged violation of 17529.5 against an Advertiser
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Recently, six (6) well known New Jersey Internet poker and online gaming affiliate marketers received cease and desist letters from the New Jersey Attorney General’s office requiring that the affiliates “immediately remove any online gaming links that are not authorized under federal law or under the law of any state.” The New Jersey Internet poker
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On July 1, 2013, following the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) adoption of the final amendments, the updated Children’s Online Privacy Protection (COPPA) Rule went into effect. The amended COPPA rule strengthens privacy protection for minors under 13 years of age in connection with their use of websites and mobile apps. The amended COPPA Rule also
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As many of our readers already know, California’s new data privacy law went into effect earlier this month on January 1, 2014. The law places strict requirements on operators of websites and other online services that collect certain information about California residents. In addition to addressing other aspects of collecting personally identifiable information (“PII”) from
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Previously we informed our readers that California’s new Internet data privacy law, effective January 1st, 2014, requires operators of commercial websites or online services that collect personally identifiable information (“PII”) from California consumers to conspicuously post their privacy policies on their respective websites. Now, the federal District Court for the Eastern District of California has ruled that consumers’ e-mail
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