Regulatory Rumblings
Prescription 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 26, 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.
READ MOREThe FTC Should Analyze the GDPR and the CCPA
Posted: Aug 21, 2018 12:15pm ETThe FTC will be holding a series of hearings this fall to determine whether changes in technology and the economy might require adjustments in their competition and consumer protection policies, and ANA has filed detailed comments urging the FTC to carry out a rigorous analysis of the impacts of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act on both co ...
READ MOREThe Supreme Court Should Review the Sherwin-Williams Case
Posted: Aug 20, 2018 3:30pm ETANA has filed a “friend of the court” brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case involving the question of whether the First Amendment allows state tort liability for truthful commercial speech when a court later determines that a lawful product is hazardous.
READ MORECalifornia State Legislature Needs to Act Now on Privacy Bill
Posted: Aug 20, 2018 1:30pm ETWhen the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was rushed through the legislature in just one week, with no real time for careful consideration, the chief sponsors indicated that they would consider a “clean up” bill this month to fix the technical defects in this sweeping new law – and that bill is under consideration now.
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