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Alex Brown is a partner with Alston & Bird’s Litigation and Trial Practice Group and focuses his complex commercial litigation and investigations practice on high-stakes data privacy, cybersecurity, AI, consumer protection, and antitrust matters.

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FTC Cracks Down on Messaging App Operator on Child Data Exploitation

October 2, 2025 By Kathleen Benway, Alex Brown, Maki DePalo, Jennifer Everett and Lili Song

On September 29, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a legal action against the operator of the anonymous messaging app Sendit and its CEO for violations of multiple consumer protection and privacy laws. The complaint, filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California by the Department of Justice at […]

Filed Under: Children's Privacy, FTC, Privacy Litigation Tagged With: Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Litigation

Texas AG Secures $1.375 Billion from Google: Key Takeaways for Companies Collecting Consumer Data

May 14, 2025 By Alex Brown and Zain Haq

On May 9, 2025, the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a $1.375 billion settlement with Google—by far the largest state-level privacy settlement reached against Google to date. The settlement resolves lawsuits filed in 2022 alleging that Google unlawfully collected, stored, and used Texans’ sensitive personal data without consent, including location information, biometric identifiers, and […]

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New York AG Announces $650,000 Settlement with Social Media App Developer for Students’ Privacy and Safety Concerns

March 12, 2025 By Alex Brown, Maki DePalo and Hyun Jai Oh

On March 7, 2025, the Office of the New York State Attorney General (NY AG) published an Assurance of Discontinuance (Assurance) settling claims against Saturn Technologies, Inc. (company), a developer of a social media app for high school students. The NY AG found that the company made unsubstantiated claims about the app’s privacy and safety […]

Filed Under: Children's Privacy, Enforcement, Mobile Privacy, New York, Online Privacy, Privacy Tagged With: Data Protection, Mobile Technologies, Privacy, Regulatory Enforcement, Social Media, US State Law

Virginia Legislature Passes Second US AI Governance Act behind Colorado: Comparing the AI Acts

March 4, 2025 By Alex Brown, Jennifer Everett, Daniel Felz, Ashley Miller and Dorian Simmons

On February 20, 2025, the Virginia legislature passed the High-Risk Artificial Intelligence Developer and Deployer Act (House Bill 2094, the “VA AI Act”) that mandates developers and deployers of high-risk artificial intelligence systems (“HRAI systems”) to adhere to specific governance requirements. The VA AI Act will come into effect on July 1, 2026 (if Virginia […]

Filed Under: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Legislation, NIST Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, US State Law

State AGs Publish Guidance on How State Laws Apply to AI

February 3, 2025 By Daniel Felz, Jennifer Everett, Alex Brown and Dorian Simmons

On December 24, 2024 and January 13, 2025, the Oregon Attorney General’s Office and the California Attorney General’s Office published advisories (collectively, “Advisories”) explaining how existing statutes may be used to regulate, investigate and enforce against artificial intelligence (“AI”). These Advisories serve to remind AI developers, suppliers and users of heightened regulatory scrutiny of AI, […]

Filed Under: Advisories, AI, Artificial Intelligence, California, CCPA, CPPA, Enforcement, Oregon, Privacy, Privacy Litigation Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), Regulatory Enforcement

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