New York has a new AI-related law which took effect January 1. The law regulates creation and use of digital replicas of an individual’s voice or likeness and is similar to those in California and Tennessee.Continue Reading New Year, New Protections for New York Artists and AI-Generated Replicas
The Federal Trade Commission recently settled complaints against two data brokers over their handling of consumers’ sensitive location information. The agency alleged that such practices constitute unfair practices. Under the settlement, both Gravy Analytics and Mobilewalla, agreed to stop using and selling sensitive consumer location data.Continue Reading FTC Keeps Sights on Data Brokers that Sell Sensitive Location Sites
In the fifth in our series of California developments, we turn to data broker obligations. There are two of note. First, the California privacy agency is moving forward Delete Act regulations it proposed earlier this year. (Its board voted to move regulations addressing data broker requirements to the Office of Administrative Law for review and approval last month.) Second, it announced an investigative sweep of compliance with the Act.Continue Reading California’s Privacy Regulator Had a Busy November, Data Broker Edition: What Does It Mean for Businesses?
In the fourth in our series of new CCPA regulations from California, we look at both cybersecurity audit obligations as well as the impact of the CCPA on the insurance industry.Continue Reading California’s Privacy Regulator Had a Busy November, Cybersecurity Audits and Insurance Edition: What Does It Mean for Businesses?
In the third in our series of new CCPA regulations from California, we look at obligations for conducting risk assessments under CCPA. CCPA had called on the California agency to promulgate rules to address such assessments, and when they would be needed.Continue Reading California’s Privacy Regulator Had a Busy November, Risk Assessment Edition: What Does It Mean for Businesses?
In the second in our series of new CCPA regulations from California, we look at proposed rules for use of automated decisionmaking technology. As a reminder, CCPA discusses these technologies in relation to profiling, namely “any form of automated processing of personal information” to analyze or predict people’s work performance, health, and personal preferences, among other things.Continue Reading California’s Privacy Regulator Had a Busy November, Automated Decisionmaking Edition: What Does It Mean for Businesses?
The California Privacy Protection Agency released proposed CCPA rules for a variety of topics in November, as well as announcing an investigative sweep for compliance with the Delete Act. Topics include the following, which we cover in this week’s California-focused blog posts:Continue Reading California’s Privacy Regulator Had a Busy November: What Does It Mean for Businesses?
UPDATE: The 8th Circuit ruled that the FTC erred by failing to conduct a regulatory analysis during its rulemaking process, and struck down this rule on July 8, 2025. Its decision came just days before the intended July 14, 2025 enforcement date (itself a delay from the original enforcement date, as announced by the FTC in May).
The FTC updated its Negative Option Rule last month and gave it a new name to emphasize the expanded scope of programs to which it applies. It will now be the “Rule Concerning Recurring Subscriptions and Other Negative Option Programs.” The updated rule, as the FTC outlines, will now be applicable to nearly all forms of negative option marketing.Continue Reading Click! FTC Updates Its Negative Option Rule
The European Data Protection Board issued draft guidelines last month that outline when processing can be considered done for “legitimate interest.” The public has until November 20 to provide comments to the draft.Continue Reading How Legitimate Is Your Business Interest? The EDPB Has Some Thoughts
Regulations impacting children’s use of social media continues to be a space in motion the past few months. There have been developments at both the state level, as well as with the FTC. And there is no sign of slowing down. In this article we give a roundup of some recent developments worth keeping in mind.Continue Reading #StatusUpdate on Social Media, Apps, and Children’s Privacy