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Stay informed with our latest insights on privacy and technology trends, along with key updates from our firm.
Finding Common Ground This Thanksgiving
This week, let’s reflect on what brings us together as a society, and how the information age has transformed how we view our institutions.
AI Optimization?
This week, let’s focus on the challenges associated with artificial intelligence (AI) in advertising (along with Ruby martinis, Sex and the City, and so much more).
FTC Lessons in Handling Sensitive Location Data
This week, let’s consider the FTC’s continued focus on sensitive location data. We’ll look at the lessons that can be learned from its latest actions, and provide a related thought on how irony emerges when considering local governments' widespread adoption of Smart City technologies.
Disinformation is Evolving with AI
This week, let’s consider two recent global events – the Israel-Hamas conflict and the proliferation of pro-China narratives on YouTube – as examples for understanding the proliferation of disinformation in the digital age.
FTC Submits Comments on AI, Copyright, Consumer Protection, and Competition
This week, let’s consider the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recent submission of a comment to the U.S. Copyright Office addressing artificial intelligence (AI).
Navigating the New Reality of AI in Political Advertising
This week, let’s focus on Meta’s latest announcement about the use of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) in online political advertising, paralleling the recent executive order on AI.
The Rise of UOOMs
This week, let’s focus on Universal Opt-Out Mechanisms (UOOMs), like the Global Privacy Control and highlight several related state privacy laws (California, Colorado, and Connecticut).
Elon Musk, Hamas, and Disinformation
This week, let’s revisit the subject of disinformation in the wake of the attacks by Hamas on Israel, and relatedly consider Elon Musk's notable withdrawal of X (Twitter) from the EU's Code of Practice.
Trans-Atlantic Perspectives: How the U.S. and UK Are Tackling Online Content Regulation
This week, let’s look at the UK’s new Online Safety Bill and contrast it from the arguments over the First Amendment in the Netchoice cases now before the Supreme Court.
The Escalating Battle Against Disinformation in a Digitally-Driven World
This week, we'll dissect the debates surrounding disinformation, which is poised to become even more prevalent as AI is used to fabricate counterfeit images, videos, and audio.
Five Eyes Issues Guidance for the Deployment of “Smart City” Technologies
This week, let’s review the new “smart city” cybersecurity guidance issued by the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, and offer some perspective accrued over time as long as this guidance is overdue.
Mental Health Data is For Sale
This week, let's consider banning the sale of mental health data in light of a new study published by Duke, and actions by the FTC against BetterHelp (for sharing mental health data with Facebook and others targeted advertisers) and Kochava (for selling sensitive geolocation information).
The EU’s Digital Services Act – Is it the Most Important Privacy Act You’ve Never Heard of?
This week, let's consider what may be the most important privacy law you've never heard of -- the EU's Digital Services Act. The DSA will take effect in 2024, but it’s so significant that large social media platforms will need every minute before then to prepare.
Hubris, Fantasies, and No Accountability
This week, let's consider some commonalities underlying the problems plaguing Twitter, Meta, TikTok, and crypto-exchange FTX.
“Con Games” in the Digital Age
This week, let’s look at how historic “con games” have evolved in the digital age, and consider the latest online scams and what to do if you are a victim.
Avoiding the Consequences of Undisclosed Endorsements and Testimonials
This week, let’s cover “influencers,” crypto, Kim Kardashian, and the latest updates to the FTC’s Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.
Code = Speech in Wyoming, but what about Poisoned Code?
This week, let’s examine a Wyoming bill designed to protect software developers from criminal liability for the code they write.