Category: Internet Law

On April 22, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) formally adopted updates to regulations related to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). The FTC has regulatory authority over matters impacted by COPPA. The new regulations will take effect in June 2025, and relevant covered businesses will have to fully comply with the new regulations […]

Online affiliate marketing is big business now. Affiliate marketing, of course, has been around for a long time. Basically, a business or a person agrees to promote and recommend a product, a brand of products, or even a whole business in exchange for various things of value. Generally, the affiliate does not actually sell the […]

In a new ruling, a California federal judge has declared the entirety of California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (“CAADCA”) to be unconstitutional. Cal. Civ. Code §§ 1798.99.28 et seq. See media report here and the Opinion here. The case is Netchoice, LLC. v. Bonta, Case No. 22-cv-08861-BLF (US N.Dist. Cal, March 13, 2025). The CAADCA […]

If you are engaged in esports at any serious level, you need an esports attorney like the ones at Revision Legal. Consider just the issue of intellectual property. Intellectual property, of course, covers rights related to trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets. These are related to the way in which you play — such as […]

Most of the recently enacted state-level consumer data privacy statutes have added a focus on automated decisions that “produce legal or similarly significant effects” concerning an individual. Most of the statutes simply allow consumers to opt out of such automated decision-making processes. But some of the data protection statutes go further. For example, the Minnesota […]

In the summer of 2024, Rhode Island became the 19th State to enact a version of a consumer data privacy statute entitled the Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act (“RIDTPPA”). In this article, the Consumer Data Privacy Compliance attorneys at Revision Legal discuss what businesses need to know about the RIDTPPA. As with […]

In the summer of 2024, Rhode Island enacted the Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act (“RIDTPPA”). It was signed by the Rhode Island Governor and takes effect on January 1, 2026. In theory, RIDTPPA is designed by Rhode Island lawmakers to protect the personal data of Rhode Island consumers and give residents certain […]

Revenge porn — or what, more accurately, should be called non-consensual pornography (“NCP”) — has been in the news lately. Massachusetts recently became the 49th State to enact a law banning and punishing NCP (leaving only South Carolina as the outlier). See news report here. Moreover, the push to create a federal law banning NCP […]

Social media content moderation by technology platforms was one of the “hot” legal topics in 2023-2024. Three States — California, Texas, and Florida — passed different statutes to either require more content moderation (California) or to limit such moderation (Texas and Florida). All the statutes, in one way or another, demanded more transparency and information […]

YouTubers know they have to comply with all the various YouTube rules and regulations. These include Youtube rules related to endorsements of products and sponsored content. However, YouTubers also have to comply with statutes and government regulations, which are often more strict than their YouTube counterparts. The most important set of rules has been issued […]