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EPIC Alleges Epic FTC Fail In Google Saga; We Review the Complaint
By InfoLawGroup LLP on February 13, 2012
On February 8, 2012, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) asked the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia to compel the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to enforce the terms of the agency's Google Buzz privacy settlement with Google. EPIC seeks to compel the FTC to stop Google's planned consolidation of user data from across the company's services into a single profile for each user under a single privacy policy. EPIC has alleged that the proposed changes and the way Google seeks to implement the changes violate the Google Buzz consent order. The District Court will hear the case before March 1, 2012.In this post, we discuss the highlights of EPIC's complaint, Google's response and lessons learned.
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NLRB Issues Second Report Reviewing Social Media Enforcement Actions
By InfoLawGroup LLP on January 29, 2012
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Digital Advertising Alliance Releases Principles for Multi-Site Data
By InfoLawGroup LLP on November 10, 2011
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FTC Takes on Super Cookies
By InfoLawGroup LLP on November 09, 2011
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NLRB Holds "Facebook" Firing Justified on Alternative Grounds, but Finds Policy Unlawful
By InfoLawGroup LLP on November 03, 2011
As we have discussed on our blog, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has continued a campaign of enforcement actions against employers who, according to the NLRB, have unlawfully terminated employees for discussing working conditions on social media. As we reported, in the first of such "Facebook" enforcement actions to come before an NLRB administrative judge, the employer was ordered to reinstate five employees and to pay back their wages.On September 28, 2011, in the second "Facebook" case to reach an NLRB administrative judge, an employer was found to have been justified in terminating an employee car salesman for Facebook postings that mocked the employer and did not concern working conditions
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Colorado PUC Holds Hearing on Smart Grid Privacy Rules
By InfoLawGroup LLP on October 18, 2011
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FTC Proposes Revisions to COPPA Rule
By InfoLawGroup LLP on September 15, 2011
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We Discuss Benefits of Federal Information Security Legislation on Fox
By InfoLawGroup LLP on September 14, 2011
Earlier this week we blogged about Senator Blumenthal's (D-CT) proposed Personal Data Protection and Breach Accountability Act of 2011. Today, InfoLawGroup partner Boris Segalis spoke on Fox Live about the advantages of federal information security legislation.
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Nonprofit Must Rehire Employees Axed for Facebook Complaints
By InfoLawGroup LLP on September 08, 2011
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Israel Slated for Trial of Biometric National IDs
By InfoLawGroup LLP on September 08, 2011
Dan Or-Hof, a privacy and technology partner at the Israeli law firm Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer is reporting that new regulations and orders introduced by Israel's Ministers Committee for Biometric Applications set the ground for a two-year biometric IDs issuance trial period. The Ministry of Home Affairs is making final preparations to start issuing the IDs that will contain encoded fingerprints and facial image, and will be stored in a national database. A campaign led by privacy activists against the controversial biometric database has failed to yield a positive result so far.
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Russia Data Protection Enforcement Update - Administrative Charges Follow Breach
By InfoLawGroup LLP on September 01, 2011
It is being reported that Moscow prosecutors conducted an investigation into whether several websites that were involved in data breaches earlier this year violated the country's data protection law. As a result of the breaches, names, contact information and order histories of Internet magazine subscribers (including adult-themed publications) became available on Internet search engines, including Russian-language Yandex. Without naming the websites, the report states that the prosecutors have filed administrative charges against two Internet magazines as a result of the investigation.
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NLRB Report Reviews Social Media Enforcement Actions
By InfoLawGroup LLP on August 31, 2011
On August 18, 2011, the Associate General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB" or the "Board") issued a report analyzing the Board's recent social media enforcement actions. The report seeks to provide guidance to employers that want to ensure that their social media policies appropriately balance employee rights and company interests.
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CFPB Tasked with FCRA Interpretation - FTC Issues Staff Report to Aid Transition
By InfoLawGroup LLP on July 26, 2011
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Federal Information Security and Breach Notification Law Approved by House Trade Subcommittee
By InfoLawGroup LLP on July 25, 2011
On July 20, 2011, the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee's Trade Subcommittee approved the Secure and Fortify Electronic Data Act (the "SAFE Data Act"). The Act would require any business that maintains personal information to implement an information security program and notify affected individuals in the event of an information security breach. The SAFE Data Act would preempt the over 45 existing state information security and breach notification laws and task the Federal Trade Commission with developing information security rules implementing the Act.
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Russia Amends Federal Data Protection Law; Privacy Enforcement on the Rise
By InfoLawGroup LLP on July 19, 2011
Last week, the upper house of Russia's federal legislature approved amendments to the country's federal data protection law. The amendments impose detailed information security requirements on businesses that process personal data and revise some of the statute's data subject consent provisions.The amended law will come into force when it is published in the official newsletter.
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Capitalizing on Privacy Practices - Study Indicates Consumers Will Pay for Privacy
By InfoLawGroup LLP on July 14, 2011
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NLRB Social Media Enforcement Article in LawyersUSA Quotes Partner Boris Segalis
By InfoLawGroup LLP on July 06, 2011
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Supreme Court Pro-Business and First Amendment - Targeted Regulations in Trouble
By InfoLawGroup LLP on June 28, 2011
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FCRA Violations Result in $1.8 Million FTC Penalty
By InfoLawGroup LLP on June 26, 2011
The Federal Trade Commission announced today that Teletrack, Inc. has agreed to pay $1.8 million to settle charges that the company sold credit reports for marketing purposes, in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). According to the FTC's complaint, Teletrack sells credit reports and other services to businesses that mainly serve financially distressed consumers. Teletrack's business customers include pay day lenders, rental purchase stores and non-prime rate auto lenders. These businesses use Teletrack's credit reports to decide whether and on what terms to extend credit to their customers.
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Partners Justine Young Gottshall and Jamie Rubin Join InfoLawGroup
By InfoLawGroup LLP on June 22, 2011
InfoLawGroup LLP is delighted to welcome to the firm partners Justine Young Gottshall and Jamie Rubin. Gottshall and Rubin are former partners at Wildman, Harrold Allen & Dixon in Chicago. As nationally-recognized leaders in Digital, Media, Advertising, Privacy and Promotions law, they bring new depth to InfoLawGroup's practice.
