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Subscriptions Meet Sensitive Data: The FTC and States Sue Hims & Hers
We have written before about the FTC's steady run of subscription enforcement, from Amazon and JustAnswer to Instacart and Uber. Separately, the FTC has pursued enforcement on the theory that health and sensitive data flowing to advertising platforms can violate a company's own privacy promises, in matters like GoodRx and BetterHelp.
The Quickest Privacy Fixes May Be the Most Valuable
The biggest challenge for many organizations isn't identifying one compliance project. It's keeping up. New privacy laws, regulatory guidance, enforcement actions, and internal business changes continually create new compliance obligations. A quick privacy program check-up helps ensure routine activities—notice reviews, cookie testing, contract updates, training, and vendor assessments—occur on a regular schedule rather than after a problem arises.
The Essential CA Privacy Update Series Part 3: Cybersecurity Audit Requirements
Use an objective, independent auditor. This may be someone internal or external to your business; however, internal auditors must have cybersecurity expertise and meet additional requirements, including: “[T]he highest-ranking auditor must report directly to a member of the business’s executive management team who does not have direct responsibility for the business’s cybersecurity program.
California Privacy Enforcement: What Every Business Needs to Know Now The Big Picture
California's privacy regulator, CalPrivacy (formerly, the California Privacy Protection Agency) (CalPrivacy), is actively enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended (CCPA) against businesses of all sizes and industries. In 2025 and 2026 alone, it settled cases against a major automaker, a rural lifestyle retailer, a clothing brand, and a sports technology company.
Fenwick’s Top 10: Our Most Popular Articles of 2019 | JD Supra
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10 Essential Things to Do Now Despite the Uncertainty | JD Supra
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Intellectual Property Bulletin - Fall 2019 | JD Supra
New Privacy Regulations Weaken the Foundation of Smart Cities New privacy regulations are threatening the full value and promise of smart cities through more stringent requirements for data collection, use and sharing. This article highlights some of the greatest challenges for smart city companies, which rely upon significant amounts of data to build accurate data models for machine learning and artificial intelligence.
New Privacy Regulations Weaken the Foundation of Smart Cities | JD Supra
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FTC, YouTube, and Kids’ Privacy: Key Takeaways from the Biggest COPPA Settlement in FTC History | JD Supra
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Five Steps to Mitigate CCPA Class Action Risk: What Companies Need to Do to Increase Data Security | JD Supra
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Intellectual Property Bulletin - Spring 2019 | JD Supra
In This Issue Avoiding the Top 5 Potholes for Autonomous Transportation Startups Autonomous transportation technology was widespread at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show. Startups at the forefront of making autonomous transportation a reality should be careful to avoid the potholes described here. —John T. McNelis Think You Don’t Have to Worry About Kids’ Privacy?
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