To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. European Union (EU) regulators reached agreement on the 23 April 2022 on the new Digital Services Act (DSA). It follows their recent agreement on its sister proposal, the Digital Markets Act, which addresses digital market imbalances in the…
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Another chapter in the now decade-long saga of Douez v. Facebook was penned earlier this month as a British Columbia Court found Facebook liable for providing advertisers access to users’ personal information without the users’ consent. On June 2, 2022,…
22 June 2022 Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA) To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Continuing from Part 1 where we introduced the Guidelines and discussed bait advertising, surrogate advertising, and free claim advertising, in Part 2, we discuss the provisions related to advertisements targeting…
18 June 2022 Kelley Drye & Warren LLP To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On June 14, the House E&C Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce held a hearing to consider issues and concerns raised by the “three corners” privacy “discussion draft” released to…
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. At the start of this month, the Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) released draft regulations for the packaging, labeling, marketing, and advertising of cannabis products in New York State. While these are still subject to change before being adopted final,…
On May 24, 2022, the Québec government adopted Bill 96, An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Québec (the “act“), which modifies the Charter of the French Language (the “charter“) adopted in 1977. The modifications brought by the Act will have far-reaching impact on the use of trademarks on product packaging, labelling,…
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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. A recent investigation report into Tim Hortons, co-authored by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“OPC“), Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec, Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta, and Office of the Information and Privacy…
Recently, the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) undertook an exceptional step of suspending two offensive advertisements for a deodorant that were in serious breach of its Code by being offensive to women. The ads in question were of Layer’r Shot, a deodorant brand, which were accused of promoting rape culture and being demeaning and…
The Supreme Court of British Columbia has found that members of an ongoing class action did not consent to Facebook’s use of their likenesses in its Sponsored Stories ads. In a summary judgment released June 2 (Douez v. Facebook, Inc., 2022 BCSC 914), the Court held that Facebook was therefore liable under privacy legislation of…
The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) introduces a new concept, “sharing,” that provides California residents with the right to opt-out of certain disclosures of personal information for behavioral advertising. In this post, we describe the difference between CPRA “sharing” and the California Consumer Privacy Act’s different, but somewhat related, concept of “sales”, the consequences of…
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