Regulatory Rumblings
What the Election Means for Marketers
Posted: Nov 7, 2018 4:30pm ETThe midterm Congressional elections generated enough political heat and hot air to threaten to accelerate global warming.
READ MORENTIA Should Consider New Privacy Paradigm
Posted: Nov 6, 2018 3:30pm ETANA has urged the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to consider a new privacy paradigm to be enforced by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as a single national standard for the reasonable collection and use of consumer data.
READ MOREANA Files Comment Opposing Changes to Marketing Mail Content Proposed by U.S. Postal Service
Posted: Oct 22, 2018 12:00pm ETOn Monday the Association of National Advertisers distributed a press release regarding it’s filing of comments in opposition to proposed changes to marketing mail content proposed by the U.S. Postal Service.
READ MOREPrescription Drug Ad Proposal Threatens to Violate the First Amendment
Posted: Oct 19, 2018 11:50am ETWe are now once again facing a major mandatory advertising disclosure proposal, this time from the federal government.
READ MORESupreme Court Refuses to Hear Important Commercial Speech Case
Posted: Oct 16, 2018 9:00am ETWe were concerned to learn today that the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from the Sherwin-Williams Company and others regarding a key case on advertising and nuisance law.
READ MOREPrivacy Hearings Raise More Questions Than Answers
Posted: Oct 15, 2018 12:00am ETOn October 10th the Senate Commerce Committee convened the second in a series of hearings entitled “Consumer Data Privacy: Examining Lessons From the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act.”
READ MORESenate Commerce Committee Holds Groundbreaking Consumer Data Privacy Hearing
Posted: Oct 4, 2018 12:00am ETOn September 26th, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation launched the first in a series of hearings on consumer privacy and data security.
READ MORESenate Commerce Committee Should Consider the Benefits of Data and Advertising
Posted: Sep 25, 2018 12:47pm ETThe Senate Commerce Committee will hold an important hearing tomorrow entitled “Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy.”
READ MOREThe Mandatory Ad Disclosure Muddle
Posted: Sep 13, 2018 1:00pm ETA storm cloud on the horizon for our industry involves the question of when the government may compel marketers to add warnings or make other disclosures in their ads. The issue is significant because it will determine what types of ad disclosures the federal government and the nation’s 30,000- plus local governments may require from marketers.
READ MOREFixing the California Privacy Law Will Require a Serious, Long Term Effort
Posted: Sep 4, 2018 2:55pm ETThe California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was rushed through the legislature in just one week in June and was trumpeted by its sponsors as a huge win for consumers. In fact, we believe the sweeping new law will be bad for privacy, bad for consumers and bad for businesses.
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