Author Archives: John DiGiacomo

On May 9, 2024, Maryland became the latest U.S. State to enact a comprehensive consumer data privacy statute called the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (“MODPA”). Technically, MODPA goes into effect on October 1, 2025. However, the true effective date of the statute is April 1, 2026. From a review of MODPA and comparison to […]

“Unavoidable” disclosure is a confusing concept. On the one hand, a social media influencer might think: “Well, yes, disclosures are unavoidable since I am required to make disclosures.” However, the concept of “unavoidable” disclosure is not about providing disclosures. Rather, “unavoidable” disclosures are evaluated from the viewpoint of the person consuming the content of a […]

Being threatened or investigated by the FTC? Call us here at Revision Legal. We can help. The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) is one of the main federal regulators that investigates and brings administrative and legal actions to enforce various federal laws. These include claims involving: Why you need an FTC defense attorney The FTC can […]

Employment contracts for senior-level executives are, for obvious reasons, more challenging to negotiate. The key provisions to negotiate include duties (although this is often non-continuous), base salary, incentivized pay (including short and long-term incentives), benefits, company-paid perquisites (like travel arrangements, use of company-owned property, etc.), for-cause terminations, severance and what happens (if anything) if there […]

With respect to consumer and personal data collected by online businesses, sites, and sales platforms, the European Union (“EU”) and the United States have different statutory and regulatory regimes. There are many similarities, but there are also significant differences. However, given that so much business is global and cross-border, enormous flows of personal and consumer […]

On April 4, 2024, Kentucky became the sixteenth State to enact a consumer data privacy statute — the Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act (“KCDPA”). Since then, both Maryland and Nebraska have enacted data privacy statutes (and New Hampshire enacted a similar statute earlier in 2024). Eighteen States now have enacted some version of a consumer […]

In 2018, California became the first State in the United States to enact a consumer data privacy statute. The statute became effective on June 1, 2020. The California statute has been amended and expanded a couple of times since being passed and is deemed one of the strongest and most protective consumer data privacy statutes. […]

The legal debate concerning website and app accessibility for those who are visually and hearing impaired has been ongoing for at least a decade. Accessibility is accomplished with software coding embedded in the base structure of a website/app providing an audio description of visual content and a visual explanation of audio content. The software and […]

It can be wonderful and fun to be a social media influencer. But, the bottom line is that social media influencers are engaged in advertising and, as such, must comply with federal and State laws with respect to disclosure. Failure to disclose that you are being paid to endorse a product or service is considered […]

In 2023, Oregon enacted the Oregon Consumer Data Privacy Act (“OCDPA”). The OCDPA is similar to other consumer data protection acts that have been enacted in the U.S. In Part One of this series, the Consumer Data Privacy and Compliance Lawyers at Revision Legal discussed many of the obligations imposed by the OCDPA on businesses […]