Alex dedicates his practice to privacy and data security law. He assists clients with compliance strategies, policy development and implementation, data monetization and data use analyses, privacy and security issues in transactions, privacy and security incident response, and regulatory and litigation matters that involve privacy and data security issues.
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We’ve talked before about the FTC’s focus on consumer health privacy. In cases against BetterHelp and GoodRx, a…
The FTC announced an action last week against location data broker X-Mode Social and its corporate successor Outlogic (collectively, “X-Mode”) based on several alleged…
In another example of the agency’s practice of regulation by blog, the FTC published last week a Business Blog…
European data protection authorities kicked 2023 off with a bang when, on January 4, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced that…
As we discussed last year, the California Attorney General’s Office (“OAG”) has been wielding its enforcement authority under the California Consumer Privacy…
Corporate email systems can often become repositories of personal information, with sensitive data elements appearing in the bodies of messages and their attachments, often with…
Last week the Federal Trade Commission announced a privacy and data security enforcement action against the online retail platform CafePress. The allegations in the…
Since 2018, a consistent stream of newly adopted privacy laws and other regulatory developments (such as GDPR, CCPA, Schrems…
Ending months of anxious speculation from privacy lawyers around the globe, the European Commission announced on Friday that it had adopted final versions of the…
Since California enacted the CCPA in 2018, legislatures in other states throughout the country have sought to pass their own comprehensive privacy laws. So far,…
From California to Europe, the final months of 2020 featured several high-profile developments in the privacy and data security fields. One development that…
Consumer-directed health apps are experiencing a boom thanks to COVID-19, as consumers seeking to avoid doctors’ office waiting rooms are increasingly…
United States companies without a presence in Europe often ask us whether they need to comply with GDPR. Often the answer (as with most things…
As anyone working from home amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic can appreciate, the video conferencing platform Zoom has rocketed to popularity as the app of…
Last Friday, the California Department of Justice released a modified version of the Department’s proposed…
After a holiday break marked by a steady stream of emails from media, technology, and retail companies announcing updates to their privacy policies, the California…
The Federal Trade Commission’s historic $5 billion civil penalty against Facebook for the Cambridge Analytica scandal has been the subject of intense coverage…
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s announcement that it intends to impose a record-setting $230 million GDPR fine on British Airways for a…
