Connecticut Attorney General Announces $7 Million Settlement with Google for Data-Snatching Wi-Fi Drive-Bys

by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019

Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen [1] announced yesterday a $7 million multistate settlement with Google, Inc. arising out of Google’s ambitious, but over-intrusive ‘Street View’ project to map the United States at street level and improve...

Netflix Encounters SEC Inquiry For Social Media Communications

by S Z | Sep 15, 2019

This time last year, Wiggin and Dana’s Securities and Capital Markets Group summarized many of the legal considerations and best practices involving social media communications by reporting companies.[1] As we begin the new year, many public companies look to...

White House Issues Cybersecurity Executive Order

by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019

On February 12, 2013, President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order, titled “Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity” (the “Order”), aimed at bolstering U.S. cybersecurity through voluntary best practices developed by federal...

Federal Trade Commission Issues Comprehensive Mobile Privacy Recommendations and Proposes Mobile ‘Do Not Track’ Mechanism

by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019

On the eve of Groundhog Day, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) released comprehensive recommendations for improving consumer privacy in the data-hungry realm of mobile apps (the “Recommendations”). The Recommendations urge mobile industry...

Smaller Reporting Companies Subject to Say-on-Pay Rules in the 2013 Proxy Season

by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019

The rules regarding the Say-on-Pay and Say-on-Frequency voting requirements that have been in effect for larger companies for the past two proxy seasons are now also applicable to smaller reporting companies (“SRCs”). SRCs enjoyed a temporary exemption but...