Obtaining Verifiable Parental Consent Under COPPA
In January, we posted about the FTC’s announcement that it denied the first application seeking approval of a new verifiable parental consent method under the agency’s revised COPPA rules. Since this...
View ArticleThe Persistent Paper Check: Why Are Businesses Resisting E-Payments?
The paper check could disappear from the lives of everyday Americans within 12 years, according to researchers at the Federal Reserve of Philadelphia. In a recent poll, 38 percent of respondents...
View ArticleAre You Ready for a World in Which More People Own a Mobile Device than a...
In January 2014, we published a post on Why Social Media Matters. If you didn’t read that post, you should. Regardless, at the end of that article, we included a link to a YouTube video produced by a...
View ArticleWill My CGL policy Cover a Data Breach? Better Read Your Policy.
Data breaches can happen at any time and to any business that deals with customer, employee or student data – just look at the Heartbleed security bug, the Target data breaches, or any of the other...
View ArticleCybersecurity and Antitrust
Recently the United States federal antitrust enforcement agencies — the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division — issued a joint policy statement designed to “make it...
View ArticleUpdate: A Potential Roadblock for Cloud-Based Media Avoided
Twice previously this year, we posted about the potential consequences to cloud-based media from the legal dispute between streaming video service Aereo and the television broadcast industry. Last...
View ArticleBreaking the Seal: Does Using Third Party eDiscovery Vendors Raise Privilege...
We’re not breaking news when we tell you that the exponential growth of electronic documents generated by clients has complicated the discovery process. Reducing this massive volume of information down...
View ArticleFDASIA
Health care apps are everywhere. Electronic medical records and mobile devices have led to an explosion of new applications for health care providers and patients. The US Department of Health and...
View ArticleAre the Reviews In? Using Online Review Evidence for Advertising Claim Support
It is a fact of modern commerce that consumers consider online reviews when deciding how to spend their dollars on everything from music, to local restaurants, to electronics. But what happens when a...
View ArticleHIT is Hot in Congress
Lately there’s been a flurry of activity related to health IT in the 114th Congress. At the end of March, the House passed the SGR bill, or “Doc Fix,” by an overwhelming vote of 392-37. If there are...
View ArticleHealthcare IT Headlines
The healthIT world descended on Las Vegas in March for HIMSS16, the world’s largest conference for all things healthcare digital. Over 42,000 attendees networked and shared ideas about everything from...
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