Reprinted with permission from the March 2025 issue of Cybersecurity Law & Strategy. © 2025 ALM Media Properties, LLC. Further duplication without permission is prohibited. All rights reserved. For decades, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office joined forces against NGL Labs, LLC (NGL) and two of its co-founders for “unlawfully exploiting kids for profit” according to FTC Chair, Lina...

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing our daily lives in health care, shopping, and travel, but it is —as we become increasingly aware — also introducing serious risks for consumers. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission recently banned Rite...

Four years ago—in early February 2020—Blackbaud, a software company that provides tools to schools, healthcare providers, and non-profit organizations, fell victim to a ransomware attack. That attack, which compromised data from some 13,000 Blackbaud customers,...

UPDATE – January 27, 2025: The Federal Trade Commission has finalized changes to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (“COPPA” or the “Final Rule”). The final amendments will become effective 60 days after publication in the Federal Register...

In recent months, regulators and lawmakers have announced steps aimed at curtailing allegedly misleading fee practices, including junk fees or drip pricing. Both “junk fees” and “drip pricing” involve charging fees that companies fail to...

Automatically renewing subscriptions continue to be a major area of focus for state legislatures. As many states’ legislative sessions come to a close, it is important to be aware of the significant developments in the...

The FTC settled with online shoe retailer, Hey Dude, Inc., stating that Hey Dude deceptively suppressed negative consumer reviews of products available on its platform in violation of Section 5 of the FTC Act. The draft...

The FTC finalized an order against 1Health.io (formerly Vitagene), alleging that the company misrepresented consumers’ rights regarding their genetic and health data, including the ability to have their data deleted; inadequately secured such data; and...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) announced that it would proceed with its rulemaking process to expand Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) style protections to include some data broker practices. The rulemaking follows the agency’s...