Advocacy News
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ANA ADviser for April 26, 2019
Government Relations News April 26, 2019Highlights this week include Privacy for America's Hill efforts, an upcoming Senate Commerce Committee hearing on privacy, and ongoing legislative activity in California.
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ANA ADviser for April 19, 2019
Government Relations News April 19, 2019Highlights this week include new federal privacy legislation, ANA meetings on Capitol Hill on Privacy for America, and a victory in Texas.
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ANA ADviser for April 12, 2019
Government Relations News April 12, 2019Highlights this week include the new Privacy for America coalition, FTC hearings on privacy, and continuing activity on privacy legislation in Texas, Washington state, and California.
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ANA ADviser for April 5, 2019
Government Relations News April 5, 2019Highlights of our government relations efforts this week: a victory for mailers, letters on state data privacy bills in California, Texas and Washington, and a meeting with key Hill staffers on potential taxes on pharmaceutical advertising.
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ANA Opposes Data Broker Bill in California State Assembly
Government Relations News March 29, 2019ANA testified before the California Assembly Privacy Committee in opposition to AB 1202, a bill introduced by Assembly Member Ed Chau concerning data broker registration.
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ANA Submits Comments Urging California Attorney General to Clarify Key Provisions of California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
Government Relations News March 11, 2019ANA has urged the California Attorney General to clarify several key provisions of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to help ensure compliance with the law and enhance consumer privacy.
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Marketing Community Wins Major Victory in Ad Disclosure Lawsuit
Government Relations News February 1, 2019In a key victory for the ad community, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit yesterday in an en blanc decision reversed a lower court decision which had denied a preliminary injunction blocking the enforcement of a San Francisco ordinance requiring health warnings on ads for certain sugar sweetened beverages.
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ANA Urges California Attorney General to Clarify Key Provisions of California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
Government Relations News January 14, 2019ANA has urged the California Attorney General to clarify several key provisions of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Our comments argue that the CCPA, as drafted, will have several serious unintended consequences for both consumers and marketers and we urged the AG to make important clarifications.
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ANA Opposes Mandatory Price Disclosures for DTC Ads
Government Relations News December 17, 2018WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) has joined with other industry groups in strong opposition to a proposed rule from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to require price disclosures in all television ads for DTC pharmaceutical products.
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Data Breach Bill Moving in Massachusetts Legislature
Government Relations News December 4, 2018A significant data breach bill is moving quickly through the Massachusetts Senate which could have very serious negative consequences for advertisers and marketers.
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Legal Watch Bulletin - December 2018
For Lawyers Legal Bulletin December 3, 2018December Legal Bulletin for lawyers and clients providing up to date legal and business summaries with links to cases, laws and regulations.
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ANA Kills California Email Bill Supported by Plaintiffs Attorneys
Government Relations News September 4, 2018ANA members won a significant victory in the waning days of the California legislative session when AB 2546, a bill aimed at gutting federal preemption for commercial email advertisements, was killed for the year.
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Senate Approves Requirement for Price Disclosures in DTC Ads
Government Relations News August 24, 2018The U.S. Senate has approved an appropriations bill which would require that the price for pharmaceutical products appear in all DTC ads for those products.
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Advertising Trade Association Responds to U.S. Census Citizenship Question
Government Relations News August 7, 2018In a joint statement, the CEO's of ANA, ARF, 4A's and AAF expressed their opposition to a new question in the 2020 U.S. census that asks "is this person a citizen of the United States?"
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Sweeping New Privacy Bill Adopted in California
Government Relations News June 29, 2018California Governor Jerry Brown signed sweeping new privacy/data security legislation yesterday. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, AB375, breezed through the state legislature in just one week and passed unanimously in both houses. The new law will have a substantial impact on all companies that do business in California.
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Sweeping New Privacy Bill on Fast Track in California State Legislature
Government Relations News June 26, 2018Broad new privacy legislation is on a fast track to passage in California.
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Sweeping New Privacy Bill in California Could Replace Ballot Initiative
Government Relations News June 22, 2018Two key lawmakers in the California State Legislature have introduced new privacy legislation that is intended to supplant a broad privacy ballot initiative that has been proposed for the November election.
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California Ad Tax Bill Gets a Hearing
Government Relations News May 14, 2018The California Senate Governance and Finance Committee will hold a hearing on Wednesday (May 16th) on a bill to impose a new tax on advertising and other business services.
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ANA Urges ICANN to Avoid Overreaction to GDPR
Government Relations News May 10, 2018Today, ANA called on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to urge the organization not to move forward with proposed changes to the WHOIS system.
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Final Tax Bill Passes Without Restricting Advertising
Government Relations News January 3, 2018The Association of National Advertisers released the following statement on the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
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