Ad Law Access

Updates on advertising law and privacy law trends, issues, and developments

Senate Judiciary Hearing on Kid’s Privacy – Sunny with a Chance of Section 230 Reform

As we’ve described here, the Senate made major strides last year on legislation to protect children’s privacy and safety online. Indeed, two bipartisan bills sailed through a Commerce Committee markup, though they…

Twitter Is The First Major Social Media Platform to Expressly Allow Cannabis Advertising

Kelley Drye

Twitter became the first social media platform to expressly allow cannabis advertising. Effective last week, Twitter’s U.S. ad policy states as follows: What's the policy? Twitter prohibits the promotion of drugs and…

NAD Finds Advertiser Can’t Support Aspirational Net Zero Claims

If you tell your friends about your new year’s resolutions, odds are that most of those friends won’t push you for too much detail on how you plan to achieve your goals. But if those friends work at NAD, you might…

Is the FTC a “Regulator”? It Sure Seems to be Moving in that Direction

For the 26+ years I served at the FTC, the agency always described itself as a “law enforcement agency,” not a “regulator.” That’s because the FTC spent most of its resources on enforcing the FTC Act and other laws…

ECOA and Beyond: Recent Updates and Developments in Discrimination Enforcement

On February 9, the FTC provided the CFPB with its annual summary of activities enforcing the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA). The release of this summary provides a great opportunity for a round-up and some updates…