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Hotel company Wyndham Worldwide Corporation is challenging the authority of the FTC to regulate data security activities, which could have a significant impact on consumer data security.

While private broadband companies are lobbying states to prohibit low-cost public Internet access, Internet providers like Google are doing the opposite.

Recently, the SEC concluded that social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter provide acceptable vehicles for use to communicate information to shareholders.

Microsoft is currently advocating for a bill in Massachusetts that would restrict the ability of cloud-computing service providers to collect data from students using computers provided by schools, which some privacy advocates claim is motivated by commercial interests against Google.

The U.S. Treasury Department recently announced that the rules directed against money laundering apply to the online currencies used for payments on the Internet.

The FTC recently announced that all “short form” online advertising (found on social media) will be held to the same consumer protection requirements as all other advertising.

Although Congress and many states continue to oppose online gambling, the substantial financial opportunities online gaming offers are highly attractive to a growing number of state governments in dire financial circumstances.

The EU and nations around the world are moving aggressively to create a robust and effective system for cybersecurity enforcement. It is time for the United States to do the same.

Idaho recently decided that software shared, not downloaded, from the cloud is subject to state sales tax, troubling many providers and users of cloud computing services.

Tax authorities across Europe are exploring a variety of modifications to tax laws in an effort to derive greater revenues from taxes on Internet activities and transactions.