Law360, New York (May 19, 2015, 10:10 AM EDT) -- In law school, everybody learns the adage that hard cases make bad law. When it comes to the Federal Trade Commission, a better aphorism might be, "easy cases make new law." The FTC's recent settlement with Nomi Technologies Inc. is, as the FTC's press release notes, the "FTC's first against a retail tracking company." On its face, the case is like many FTC privacy cases: It challenges a statement in the company's privacy policy for allegedly being inconsistent with the company's actual practices and thus deceptive. Under the surface, however, the case may open the door for the FTC to create a notice-and-choice regime for the physical tracking of consumers, analogous to its well-established notice-and-choice regime for online tracking....
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