What kind of problems can we help solve?

Here are just a few samples...

Online and offline marketing and advertising issues
Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) violations (commercial text messages, recorded calls, unsolicited faxes, etc)
Telemarketing
Do Not Call
CAN-SPAM Act violations (i.e. "do not email list")
Other consumer protection issues or alleged unfair trade practices, including claims between competitors challenging their respective consumer disclosures or promotional materials
Formulation, deployment, and ongoing assessment of consumer disclosures, marketing compliance programs and related contract negotiations
Proceedings before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Individual and group investigations by state attorneys general and in the context of proposed legislation
Address obligations of communications network providers with respect to online marketing and advertising, including behavioral advertising, and deep-packet inspection issues

Counsel healthcare clients on matters involving the confidentiality and security of health information
Interpreting and applying the Privacy and Security Standards promulgated under HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
State laws protecting the confidentiality of health information and prescription data, as well as HITECH compliance

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Acts and its implementing regulations, including financial institutions’ privacy policies, information sharing practices and data safeguarding
FCRA, and its FACT Act amendments, which regulates the use of credit reports, identity theft prevention and other privacy-related practices
CAN-SPAM Act and federal and state telemarketing laws
Right to Financial Privacy Act
Federal and state data security and data breach laws
New legislative proposals, including proposals that would significantly expand privacy regulation at the federal level
Regulatory and administrative developments, particularly given the divided jurisdiction among the FTC, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and other agencies
Cross-border issues relating to conflicting requirements of different domestic privacy regimes, as well as transborder data transfers

International privacy and data protection issues related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigations and other regulatory investigations including those by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Privacy and information law issues that arise in connection with internal investigations and civil discovery access to documents and witnesses located outside of the US
Federal and state privacy and information practices matters affecting financial institutions
Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) as amended by the Fair and Accurate Transactions (FACT) Act
CAN-SPAM Act
Right to Financial Privacy Act
Federal and State telemarketing laws and federal and state data security and data breach laws
Transborder data transfers from the EU to the US
Advocate on behalf of clients in the financial privacy federal legislative and regulatory process

Assist clients address big data legal issues surrounding the analysis, collection, and use of the massive data sets being generated by the IoT, including AI and machine learning applications
Help address privacy, data security, consumer protection, and other litigation and regulatory challenges stemming from the enormous data sets they process
Help companies address inquiries from the FTC and state Attorneys General regarding the alleged misuse of data from their products
Assist industrial Internet companies with issues ranging from supply chain management to sensors on large industrial machines
Data protections issues:
- Development of ethical data stewardship governance models
- Regulators counseling for data science companies that run proprietary algorithms to reveal nonintuitive actionable insights for their customers
- Legal counseling for companies that repurpose data, collect adverse event data and develop complex IT infrastructures that support the transfer and interrogation or large-scale data sets

Handle litigation, counseling, and regulatory work for both media and non-media clients on issues arising from the collection, publication, dissemination, and protection of data and information assets
Help clients advance and protect their reputations, publications, networks, databases and other information assets
Represent clients in court and before enforcement and regulatory agencies
Provide compliance counseling and analysis and advice on how information may be communicated to the public, shared with or extracted from third parties or insulated against unauthorized access