by Rob Sherman and Allison Ray
The FTC’s recent announcement [PDF] that it will update its decade-old guidance on online advertising—known as Dot Com Disclosures [PDF]—has inspired animated industry discussion.
In its request for comments, the FTC highlighted that forums for online advertising that we take for granted today — such as social media…
Over the past few weeks, online publishers have seen regulators’ focus on privacy in the social media context reach the boiling point. Just this week, Politico reported that FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz confirmed in a letter to Sen. Mark Pryor that “FTC staff are carefully monitoring the privacy and security issues associated with social networking…
Yesterday, the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade held its second hearing on data security in the past month. The hearing featured the testimony of top executives from Sony and Epsilon, companies that recently have been the victims of large-scale cyber attacks. The hearing focused mainly on the specifics of the recent attacks, the…
The House Energy and Commerce Commerce has announced plans for a “comprehensive review” of privacy and data security regulation. The announcement explained that the “first phase” of the Committee’s review would be devoted to an assessment of the need for data security legislation. The committee will then consider what Chairman Fred Upton referred to as “the…
The Illinois legislature has passed a bill that would require data owners to include specific information in a letter notifying an Illinois resident of a data breach affecting that resident’s personal information. The bill, which still must be signed by Governor Pat Quinn, would require notice letters to include “(i) the toll-free numbers and addresses…
For the second time in a week, the California Senate has voted down “The Social Networking Privacy Act” (S.B. 242), a bill that would have required social networking services to, among other things, restrict the sharing of information by default, establish a process for new users to configure privacy settings during registration, and remove all…
