The Digital Markets Act, Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 was published on 12 October 2022 in the Official Journal of the EU.Despite the mounting controversy around the DMA and its interplay wi | Continue reading
On June 15, 2022, Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced a bill, cosponsored by a host of other Democratic and independent Senators, the “Health and Location Data Protection Act of 2022,& | Continue reading
Happy Monday! Queenie back.So I am on my way to Vegas to speak at Medicarians—literally at the airport—and wouldn’t you know it, a cool Vegas story just showed up for me to | Continue reading
Well I guess I get to say I told you say. But I wish it wasn’t the case.Here’s your headline: May 20, 2022 Oklahoma Governor Stitt officially signs the Oklahoma Mini TCPA int | Continue reading
On February 25, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced proposed rules aimed at providing additional transparency into the activities of short-selling institutional investors | Continue reading
A few months ago, we published a post about the OCC, FDIC, and Federal Reserve Board’s final rule to improve information sharing about cyber incidents that may affect the U.S | Continue reading
On February 18, 2022, the European Union (EU) made a Request for Consultations with China over anti-suit injunctions in standard essential patent (SEPs). Chinese courts have issued these injunctions b | Continue reading
On January 20, 2022, the Federal Reserve Board published a discussion paper on the potential for a US central bank digital currency, or CBDC. Entitled “Money and Payments: The U. | Continue reading
On March 18, 2020, the President signed into law the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, H.R. 6201, Pub. L. No. 116-127 (the “Coronavirus Response Act”). Among other measures in | Continue reading
The Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2020 (Identify and Disrupt Bill) passed both houses of federal parliament on 25 August 2021. The new legisla | Continue reading
AI is hungry for data.Training and testing the machine-learning tools to perform desired tasks consumes huge lakes of data. More data often means better AI.Yet gathering this data, espec | Continue reading
The new Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (EPEW) and Equal Pay Transparency (EPT) rules have been garnering a lot of attention in recent weeks. First, the litigation challenging the law has been d | Continue reading
Last week, the Italian data protection authority (the “GPDP”) opened an investigation after reports that a dataset allegedly containing data compiled from 500 million LinkedIn pr | Continue reading
The state of Virginia recently enacted a law banning local law enforcement and campus police departments from using facial recognition technology. Facial recognition technology is defined as | Continue reading
In a wide-ranging hearing before the House Financial Services Committee on May 6, 2021, SEC Chairman Gary Gensler addressed a number of SEC regulatory priorities, including the recent short- | Continue reading
To say the SEC has signaled increased attention to ESG matters would be an understatement. Between February 24th and April 12th of this year, the SEC has posted on its website five pub | Continue reading
On January 14, 2021, Southwest Airlines Co. (“Southwest”) filed a complaint in a Texas district court against an online travel site, Kiwi.com, Inc. (“Kiwi”), alleging, among ot | Continue reading
As readers of CPW know, data scraping is a hot button data privacy issue. We previously covered the hiQ/LinkedIn data-scraping saga HERE, and HERE. In the most recent ruling out | Continue reading
On January 27, 2021, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) announced in the “Notice of the CNIPA on Further Strictly Regulating Patent Application Behavior&rd | Continue reading
Last week marked a double milestone for the FTC: Rebecca Slaughter assumed the role of Acting Chair, and the agency brought its first enforcement action under the Better Online Ticket Sales | Continue reading
This week, California experienced its first blackouts in nearly 20 years. On August 19, the California Independent System Operator (“CAISO”) issued another state-wide flex alert, calling o | Continue reading
In August 2018, Brazil took a significant step by passing comprehensive data protection legislation: the General Data Protection Law (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais&nb | Continue reading
Referred to as “the copyright case of the century,”1 the Supreme Court could determine the fate of software protection in Google v. Oracle, namely that of Java. At its core | Continue reading
A member of the United Kingdom’s Parliament has opened an inquiry into the legality of loot boxes. Loot boxes are virtual items that may be redeemed to receive a randomized selection of ad | Continue reading
On Thursday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD Act), sponsored by Senator Kevin Thomas and Assemblymember Michael DenDekker | Continue reading
The Cyberspace Administration of China (the “CAC”) launched a public consultation on the draft Administrative Measures on Data Security (the “Draft Measures”) on May 28, 2019. | Continue reading
A potentially significant bill eliminating the per-country caps on employment-based visas may become law.H.R. 392, Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act, first introduced in 2017, had 300 co-sp | Continue reading
Key Takeaways: Emerging technology sectors will soon be subject to new export controls. Affected sectors include Biotech, computing, artificial intelligence, positioning and navigatio | Continue reading
Blockchain and sports gambling seem to be a natural fit. Sports gambling has been at the forefront of the news cycle since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a federal statute that banned states from | Continue reading
California is once again poised to set the standard for privacy and data security by enacting the first state law directed at securing Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The law has passed the state le | Continue reading
Over the last two months a string of fake banking apps have hit the Google Play store, leaving many customers wondering whether they have been affected by the scam. A report by security firm ESET foun | Continue reading
Over the last few years, the United States Supreme Court has changed the landscape of patent eligibility with its decisions in Mayo Collaborative Servs v Prometheus Labs, Inc. 132 S. Ct. 1289 (2012) a | Continue reading
In the first decision (available in German only) applying the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a German court held that data collection that exceeds what is necessary to achieve le | Continue reading
On May 21, 2018, the Supreme Court ruled in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis that employees can agree to: (1) arbitrate employment disputes; and (2) waive their right to resolve those disputes through clas | Continue reading