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
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 […]
Virginia Legislature Passes Second US AI Governance Act behind Colorado: Comparing the AI Acts
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 […]
State AGs Publish Guidance on How State Laws Apply to AI
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, […]
FTC’s Ability to Regulate Data Security Potentially Limited in FTC v. LabMD
A November 13, 2015 decision from the Federal Trade Commission’s Chief Administrative Law Judge, D. Michael Chappell, calls into question FTC enforcement in the data privacy space. The case began when the FTC filed a complaint on August 28, 2013 after an employee of LabMD, a cancer detection laboratory, downloaded peer-to-peer (“P2P”) software that exposed patient […]