Publications

On July 21, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission rescinded a longstanding 1995 Policy Statement that limited the Commission’s ability to deter anticompetitive or problematic mergers and acquisitions. Prior to the 1995 Policy Statement, the Commission required a company that allegedly or actually violated the law in a previous merger or […]

On November 18, 2021 the Congressional Budget Office (“CBO”) released its cost estimate for the revised version of the Biden Administration’s Build Back Better Act (the “Act”), and the House passed the Act the morning of November 19.  The package is estimated to cost $367 billion over 10 years. To […]

These days, there is much discussion regarding data breaches, privacy, and information security – and the amount of chatter on these topics can sometimes be overwhelming.  This article, which is a brief recap of a presentation given at Baird Holm’s recent 2021 Technology and Data Protection Forum, is intended to […]

Virginia and Colorado joined California in adopting comprehensive data privacy legislation that is broadly applicable to residents of these states giving these individuals rights over how their information is used.  Now that individuals have these additional rights, the follow up inquiry is whether individuals care about these rights and whether […]

On October 27, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced it was updating the data security safeguards rules that banks are required to implement in order to protect customer information as part of Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (the “Safeguards Rule”). The FTC’s update follows a string of data breaches in recent years […]