Privacy Rules of the Road: A Guidebook to FTC Cases
Explore more than 25 years of FTC Section 5 privacy enforcement actions, starting with the Commission's first Internet privacy case, GeoCities, and proceeding through to recent cases. Regardless of the regulatory changes yet to come, this casebook summarizing the FTC's major privacy enforcement actions provides an overview of how federal privacy enforcement actions have evolved.
Data Security Rules of the Road: A Guidebook to FTC Cases – NEW!
If the FTC's data security consent decrees constitute the raw material for constructing a data security program, then Data Security Rules of the Road is the architectural blueprint for understanding how the pieces fit together. Through the lens of Venable's experienced attorneys, the book guides readers in identifying the security practices that best approximate the FTC's "reasonable and appropriate" security standards as they incorporate applicable lessons into their own security programs.
State Privacy Laws Guidebook – Current Through June 2024
Five state privacy laws are in effect as of early 2024: the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and consumer privacy laws in Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia. All five laws draw inspiration from each other and the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) but differ in significant ways. This Guidebook helps organizations master those differences by describing how the laws developed, providing an overview of each state's privacy law, identifying the threshold requirements for becoming subject to each law, providing visual summaries of how key requirements and definitions vary by state, and identifying both the entities tasked with enforcing the laws and the penalties associated with noncompliance.