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The Post-Cookie Digital Advertising Landscape: Planning for Privacy Compliance in Unsettled Terrain

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Digital advertising exists in a complex ecosystem that the average person engages with daily. It encompasses a broad set of technologies for managing advertisements across channels including search, display, video, mobile, and social, with functions for targeting, design, bid management, analytics, optimization, and automation.

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FTC Punishes BetterHelp for Sharing Mental Health Information with Advertisers

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Their primary business is online counseling and therapy provided online through web-based interaction and phone/text communication with professional counselors. The complaint details BetterHelp’s dubious privacy practices, many of which display an egregious lack of concern for privacy interests.

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National Advertising Division’s 2022 Annual Report: An Advertising Compliance Roadmap for the Year Ahead

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“[N]o legacy is so rich as honesty” 1 might fairly summarize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s theme to the advertising industry for 2023, as gleaned from the National Advertising Division (NAD) 2022 Annual Report. What Privacy-Related Claims Does Your Company Make? Disclosures, Endorsements, Dark Patterns – Oh, My!

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Announcing the Sixth Edition of Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases & Materials by Tushnet & Goldman

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Rebecca Tushnet and I are pleased to announce the sixth edition of our casebook, Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases & Materials. We also have two online-only chapters on housing discrimination (Chapter 20) and political advertising (Chapter 21), both also freely downloadable. Chapter 2: What is an Advertisement?

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National Advertising Division’s 2022 Annual Report: An Advertising Compliance Roadmap for the Year Ahead

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“[N]o legacy is so rich as honesty” 1 might fairly summarize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s theme to the advertising industry for 2023, as gleaned from the National Advertising Division (NAD) 2022 Annual Report. What Privacy-Related Claims Does Your Company Make? Nothing less will do.

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Your Child is Being Watched: EdTech and Children’s Privacy Part 2

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As discussed in part one , Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report in late May outlining the privacy risks school children face across the globe. However, Canada still falls behind in implementing modern privacy legislation that addresses child consent.

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Pixel Litigation Drives Transparency in Privacy Policies

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Pixels, a piece of tracking software businesses use to assess the success of their advertising campaigns, are creating headaches for in-house counsel as decades-old laws are being revived by litigants. Unlike cookies, pixels cannot be easily blocked with privacy software.

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