Government Relations News

Highlights this week include a continuing focus on privacy issues on Capitol Hill.

Highlights this week include activity in New York, the DAA Summit, and upcoming hearings in the Senate.

Highlights this week include a major victory on privacy legislation in Illinois.

Highlights this week include Sen. Hawley's Do Not Track legislation, as well as significant privacy activity in California and Illinois.

Highlights this week include a major victory in California on a private right of action amendment to the CCPA and additional action on privacy in Maine, New York, and Illinois.

Highlights this week include two Hill hearings on privacy and a recap of our in-person Government Relations Committee meeting.

Highlights this week include Hill hearings on privacy and next week's Government Relations Committee meeting, featuring David Strickland, Democratic Staff Director for the Senate Commerce Committee.

Highlights this week include Privacy for America's Hill efforts, an upcoming Senate Commerce Committee hearing on privacy, and ongoing legislative activity in California.

Highlights this week include new federal privacy legislation, ANA meetings on Capitol Hill on Privacy for America, and a victory in Texas.

Highlights this week include the new Privacy for America coalition, FTC hearings on privacy, and continuing activity on privacy legislation in Texas, Washington state, and California.

Highlights of our government relations efforts this week: a victory for mailers, letters on state data privacy bills in California, Texas and Washington, and a meeting with key Hill staffers on potential taxes on pharmaceutical advertising.

ANA testified before the California Assembly Privacy Committee in opposition to AB 1202, a bill introduced by Assembly Member Ed Chau concerning data broker registration.

ANA has urged the California Attorney General to clarify several key provisions of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to help ensure compliance with the law and enhance consumer privacy.

In a key victory for the ad community, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit yesterday in an en blanc decision reversed a lower court decision which had denied a preliminary injunction blocking the enforcement of a San Francisco ordinance requiring health warnings on ads for certain sugar sweetened beverages.

ANA has urged the California Attorney General to clarify several key provisions of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Our comments argue that the CCPA, as drafted, will have several serious unintended consequences for both consumers and marketers and we urged the AG to make important clarifications.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) has joined with other industry groups in strong opposition to a proposed rule from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to require price disclosures in all television ads for DTC pharmaceutical products.

A significant data breach bill is moving quickly through the Massachusetts Senate which could have very serious negative consequences for advertisers and marketers.

ANA members won a significant victory in the waning days of the California legislative session when AB 2546, a bill aimed at gutting federal preemption for commercial email advertisements, was killed for the year.

The U.S. Senate has approved an appropriations bill which would require that the price for pharmaceutical products appear in all DTC ads for those products.

ANA has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review a critically important 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.