On May 17, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a proposed settlement agreement (in the form of a stipulated order)1 with Easy Healthcare Corporation, which operates the Premom fertility tracking app (Premom). The
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On May 18, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a number of proposed amendments to the Health Breach Notification Rule (the Rule), the latest in a series of actions taken by the agency to
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On May 18, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) unanimously voted during its open meeting to adopt a new policy statement on biometric information and Section 5 of the FTC Act. In the statement, the
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In the absence of meaningful progress from the U.S. Congress on passing a federal comprehensive privacy law, state legislatures have been busy this year passing their own solutions and adding to the complexity of U.S.
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On April 12, 2023, the Biden administration announced a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the agency responsible for enforcing the Health
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On May 3, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it issued an order to show cause (the “show cause order”) to Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly Facebook, Inc., “Meta”). The show cause order proposes
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