Company: TGE
Filing Date: 2025-05-06
Form Type: F-4/A
Source: 0001213900-25-040058
Chunk: 332

Company: Generation Essentials Group
Filing Date: 2025-05-06
Form: F-4/A
Chunk 332
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, from employing practices that are considered unfair and deceptive. The Federal Trade Commission and state consumer protection regulators enforce these rules directly and on behalf of affected consumers. Additionally, where state laws provide a private right of action, affected consumers can bring claims directly for damages. Data Privacy Magazine publishers are also likely to hold significant amounts of personal information of their subscribers, including contact information, billing data, preferences and interests and any other information that they collect and process. As a result, publishers need to comply with applicable data privacy laws. The United States does not have comprehensive consumer privacy law at federal level; instead, there is a fragmented patchwork of state and sector -specificprivacy laws. As of February 2025, nineteen states, including California, Connecticut, Texas, and Virginia, have comprehensive privacy laws that protect personal information of the residents in these states. These laws apply to companies that conduct business in these states and that meet certain thresholds of revenue and/or data processing activities. In California, the California Privacy Protection Agency shares enforcement authority with the state attorney general, which is the state general consumer protection enforcer. California law also provides a limited private right of action for security breaches. In other states, enforcement responsibility of privacy laws is within the authority of each state’s respective attorney general. Additionally, the Federal Trade Commission has interpreted general consumer protection rules to extend to privacy, requiring companies to provide consumers with a basic level of privacy protections as well as abide by any privacy and data protection -relatedrepresentations made by a company (e.g., in the form of a privacy notice or privacy terms in a contractual agreement). Voluntary Industry Standards Magazine publishers should also be aware of regulations and guidance issued by non -governmentassociations that represent industry members. In the United States, the primary industry association for magazine publishers is the News Media Alliance, an organization that represents most of the major newspaper and magazine publishers in the United States, including both digital and print media publishers. The focus of the News Media Alliance is on advocacy and research, but in the past it has issued principles and standards, such as the Generative Artificial Intelligence Principles aiming at providing guidance on the use of media content to train and develop generative artificial intelligence systems. Similar to other voluntary industry standards, these principles do not carry the force of law, but they can provide helpful guidance for industry participants. Film Distribution There is no central authority that oversees film distribution in the United States. However, the federal government has regulatory authority over wire communications, which allows it to regulate most forms of television broadcasting. Additionally, various