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California Actively Enforcing its Delete Act against Data Brokers
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March 10, 2025
California Actively Enforcing its Delete Act against Data Brokers
By: Nicole Kardell
If you are a data broker and you are not registered in California, you may face sanctions, including fines and possible shut down of operations. The California Privacy Protection Agency is actively enforcing the state’s Delete Act, legislation that was enacted in 2023. The Delete Act requires entities that qualify as data brokers under the law to register annually with the CPPA and pay the associated fee. In October 2024, the CPPA announced that it would start a sweep to investigate and penalize data brokers that failed to comply. Making good on its promise, the agency recently released a statement that it settled with a data broker, Background Alert, Inc., for failing to register. The settlement requires the company to…
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FTC Cracking Down On Online Censorship
February 27, 2025
FTC Cracking Down On Online Censorship
By: Steven Eichorn
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has recently launched a public outreach effort to obtain information from the public regarding how they are treated by technology platforms. As explained by the FTC, they are seeking to “understand how technology platforms deny or degrade users’ access to services based on the content of their speech or affiliation, and how this conduct may have violated the law.” This…
Pause Play? CFPB Gaming-Related Rules on Hold
February 12, 2025
Pause Play? CFPB Gaming-Related Rules on Hold
By: Michelle Cohen
Newly installed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) Director Russell Vought directed agency staff to stop work on agency matters and stay home. The future of many of the CFPB-led initiatives looks bleak, including a recent interpretive rule proposal that would treat video game publishers like payment processors. Background Congress created the CFPB, an independent federal agency, in 2011 in response to the financial crisis of…
Ding Dong – The Police Want Access to Your Doorbell Footage. Can They Get It?
February 16, 2024
Ding Dong – The Police Want Access to Your Doorbell Footage. Can They Get It?
By: Abbey Block
The popular electronic doorbell company, Ring, recently announced a change to its policy of sharing doorbell footage with law enforcement agencies. In a blog post, the company, which is owned by Amazon, revealed it will sunset the “Request for Assistance” tool, which allowed law enforcement agencies to request and access users’ doorbell footage through Ring’s “Neighbors” App. Ring’s electronic doorbells are utilized by an estimated…
2024, AI, and the Harnessing of the Wild West
January 10, 2024
2024, AI, and the Harnessing of the Wild West
By: Nicole Kardell
We are writing a lot about artificial intelligence these days… but then there is a lot to say on the topic. AI is making headlines in terms of legal battles and legislative developments. At the end of 2023, the New York Times filed suit against Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright infringement based upon alleged unauthorized use of their copyrighted works to build the popular ChatGPT. …
Navigating the AI Regulatory Landscape: Comparing Biden’s Executive Order and the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act
January 2, 2024
Navigating the AI Regulatory Landscape: Comparing Biden’s Executive Order and the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act
By: Abbey Block
The regulation of artificial intelligence (“AI”) is a popular topic of discussion. Politicians, activists and even AI developers have weighed in to urge the Government to take steps to create guardrails for the technology’s development and use. Yet, until recently, governments and regulators have been slow to take action and pass concrete legislation – leaving the regulation of the industry largely to the private sector’s…
How Does AI Use the Data You Give it?
December 20, 2023
How Does AI Use the Data You Give it?
By: Jake Gray
The development and public offering of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) models has led to the introduction of many work-complementing and work-supplementing tools that offer individuals and organizations the ability to streamline or expand their workflows. Generative AIs are algorithms, specifically large language models (LLMs), trained on massive amounts of input data to generate their own original text or image outputs by predicting the next most…
Ad Tech in Europe: What Does the Future Hold?
December 4, 2023
Ad Tech in Europe: What Does the Future Hold?
By: Nicole Kardell
If you are subject to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation and you engage in behavioral advertising, you may want to rethink your business model. A recent decision from the European Data Protection Board (which oversees application and enforcement of the GDPR across the EU) and related statements from regulators from several European member states have cast a shadow over the future of personalized ads…
