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By Mitchell C. Shelowitz and Kelly McDermott The TAKE IT DOWN Act[1] (the “Act”) is a federal law designed to prevent the online publication of nonconsensual “intimate visual depictions,” including real images or videos and AI-generated “digital forgeries” or deepfakes.[2] The Act requires online platforms, such as Amazon, Apple, Bumble, […]

By: Jamie Rauch On December 19, 2022, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) announced record monetary fines of five hundred twenty million dollars ($520,000,000) against Epic Games, Inc. (“Epic Games”), the creator of the hugely successful video game Fortnite, based upon violations of: (i) The Children’s Online Privacy Protection […]

    By Mitchell C. Shelowitz As announced on May 25, 2022 by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”), Twitter has agreed to pay a huge fine of $150 million for engaging in unfair or deceptive acts and practices by obtaining Twitter users’ personal information under false pretenses – […]

By Gadi Meroz* In 1907 Edward Smit was quoted to say: “In all my experience, I have never been in any accident… nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.” Five years later he was commissioned as Captain of the RMS Titanic. […]

  In the aftermath of the onerous implementation requirements of the GDPR for companies doing business in the European Union, many global businesses are rightfully concerned about the potential costs of compliance, business interruption, and risks related to The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”), which officially went […]