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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.
Click-to-Cancel
This week, let’s consider the controversy surrounding the new “Click-to-Cancel” rule, issued this month in final form by the Federal Trade Commission.
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.
Hubris, Fantasies, and No Accountability
This week, let's consider some commonalities underlying the problems plaguing Twitter, Meta, TikTok, and crypto-exchange FTX.
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.