Legislators and regulators have shown a keen interest in regulating businesses that sell auto-renewing subscriptions more stringently in recent years, and this interest shows no signs of waning. The nationwide baseline is set to evolve...

The Massachusetts Attorney General has released final regulations (“the Final Regulations”) imposing obligations on businesses that offer auto-renewing subscriptions, as well as businesses that impose purportedly hidden or misleading fees (referred to as “junk fees”). The Final...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently heard argument on a challenge to law enforcement’s increasingly common practice of obtaining nondisclosure orders (“NDOs”) that cover an entire investigation rather than an individual...

Four years after the Federal Trade Commission issued Orders, using its authority under Section 6(b) of the FTC Act, to nine social media and video streaming services, the Commission released a report detailing its findings. Below, we summarize...

Update: The FTC extended the deadline to comply with the Negative Option Rule’s consent, disclosure, and cancellation requirements from May 14, 2025, to July 14, 2025. Major News for Subscriptions and Auto-Renewing Contracts: The Federal Trade...

In a split opinion, the Fourth Circuit ruled in United States v. Chatrie that the government did not conduct a Fourth Amendment search when it obtained two hours’ worth of Google Location History data pursuant to a geofence...