3/1/2026 12:01:27 AM Are Apple's Watches "Carbon Neutral"? By Jeff Greenbaum Apple promotes the fact that some of its watches are “carbon neutral.” Some consumers sued, alleging that the claim is false and...
2/28/2026 12:43:21 AM FTC Issues COPPA Policy Statement on Age Verification By Holly Melton On February 25, 2026, the FTC issued an enforcement policy statement under COPPA intended to encourage the use of age-verification...
2/23/2026 10:40:35 PM Use of Kurt Cobain Photo in Blog Post is Copyright Infringement, but Nevermind the Damages By Brian Murphy Defendant Line Financial Health Network operates a financial app called Beem. On February 20, 2023 – about two months before tax returns...
2/23/2026 10:38:11 PM AGs Warn Companies About Signing on to Environmental Groups' Standards By Jeff Greenbaum Earlier this month, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, along with the Attorneys General of nine other states, sent a letter to...
2/23/2026 9:29:12 PM Courts Expand ECPA Wiretapping Liability Through Crime-Tort Exception By Caren Decter Peter Devlin Two recent decisions signal judicial receptiveness to federal wiretapping claims based on the use of website tracking technologies—with...
2/21/2026 2:35:55 PM What Does "Dishwasher Safe" Mean? By Jeff Greenbaum Walgreens sells Complete Home Heavy Duty plastic cutlery. The front and the back of the packaging are labeled “DISHWASHER SAFE” and...
2/19/2026 1:06:10 AM Agentic AI Part I: What It Is and Who's Responsible When It Acts By Peter Devlin Regina Gerhardt Artificial intelligence tools are rapidly evolving from passive, user-prompted systems, into autonomous technologies capable of planning,...
2/13/2026 10:28:26 PM FTC Warns Apple That "Liberal Bias" In Apple News May Violate FTC Act By Terri Seligman No sooner did I leave the stage at our Ad Law Summit than an alert lit up my phone with the news of an FTC warning letter. This one...
2/12/2026 3:50:19 AM Takeaways from the Disney CCPA $2.75 Million Settlement By Daniel Goldberg On February 11, the California Attorney General’s Office announced a settlement with Disney for alleged violations of California privacy...
2/11/2026 4:53:14 PM Texas AG Settles With Cal-Maine Foods Over Price Gouging Claims By Jeff Greenbaum Last month, Cal-Maine Foods reached a settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, resolving allegations that the company engaged...
2/9/2026 5:31:18 PM Fireside chat with CalPrivacy Executive Director Tom Kemp on California privacy By Daniel Goldberg I recently moderated a fireside chat with Tom Kemp, Executive Director of the California Privacy Protection Agency (CalPrivacy), on where...
2/8/2026 10:32:57 PM Is the Cocoa in Oreos "Sustainably" Sourced? By Jeff Greenbaum Mondelez International, the maker of Oreos, advertises that its cookies include “100% Sustainably Sourced Cocoa.” Mondelez also...
2/4/2026 5:49:17 PM Door Not “Shut” on VPPA Claims in Second Circuit When Data Is Legible By Peter Devlin Last year, the Second Circuit declared that the “door” was “effectively shut” on claims under the Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”)...
1/30/2026 11:00:12 PM Surprise! (Not) - FTC Announces Two Advance Notices of Proposed Rulemaking By Holly Melton The Federal Trade Commission closed out January with a bang. Today, the agency announced that it submitted two Advanced Notices of...
1/29/2026 9:59:06 PM Inside the New SAG-AFTRA Interactive Media Agreement: New Standards for AI and Digital Replicas By Emma Smizer Dorian Thomas Big news coming into the new year: we now have the full text of the newly ratified SAG-AFTRA Interactive Media Agreement (IMA). As a...
1/29/2026 6:52:07 PM Key Takeaways from the FTC’s Age Verification Workshop By Holly Melton On January 28, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission hosted a virtual public workshop examining age-verification technologies and their role...