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...

The FTC has updated its Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising (“Guides”) and its corresponding FAQ-like document, FTC’s Endorsement Guides: What People are Asking (“FAQs”), to address evolutions in advertising, such as the prevalence of...

In three separate cases, the FTC brought claims that companies collecting children’s information violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), requiring the companies to comply with COPPA, delete inactive data, provide notices to parents,...

The Federal Trade Commission has unanimously adopted a new policy statement warning that the increasing use of consumers’ biometric information and related technologies, including those powered by machine learning, raises significant consumer privacy and data...

In what would be its third major action against Meta since 2012, the FTC has proposed several new, significant changes to its 2020 Privacy Order (“2020 Order”) with Meta after alleging unsatisfactory compliance. The proposal...

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on March 23, 2023, with proposed amendments to its Negative Option Rule (as amended, the “Amended Rule” or “Proposed Rule”) that would significantly expand the scope of the Rule and...

In a continuation of the trend of regulatory guidance and actions on online advertising, the FTC issued a proposed order against online counseling service, BetterHelp, alleging that BetterHelp unlawfully shared consumers’ health data for advertising...

On February 1, 2023, the FTC released guidance highlighting three data security practices that the agency increasingly views as essential for protecting consumer data. Complex data systems, the FTC argues, require “safety engineering” to reduce risk. One...

On February 1, 2023, the FTC announced an enforcement action against GoodRx for unlawfully disclosing users’ health information through the use of third-party tracking technologies, sending a strong warning to the online health industry against tracking health-related...

On December 19, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced the largest-ever penalties for violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and unfair use of dark patterns in a pair of settlements with Epic Games...