Privacy Plus+ News
Stay informed with our latest insights on privacy and technology trends, along with key updates from our firm.
Britain Moves a Step Closer to “Adequate”
This week, let’s consider data transfers under the GDPR, alongside the United Kingdom’s latest move toward a post-Brexit adequacy decision related to the transfer of personal data from the EEA to the UK.
Free Speech, Twitter and the Law of Unintended Consequences
This week, let’s consider free speech, the regulation of big tech platforms and the famous law of unintended consequences in light of Justice Clarence Thomas’s recent concurrence in Knight Institute v. Trump.
Like We Need This: SCOTUS rules that the TCPA allows Robo-Texting
This week, let’s consider the Supreme Court’s ruling in Facebook v. Duguid, concluding that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act doesn’t prevent the automated sending of text messages.
Texas is Making Millions/Year Selling Personal Information
This week, let’s consider the latest news in Texas—that our state government is making millions every year selling drivers’ personal information.
Additional CCPA Regulations – An Illusion of Privacy
This week, let’s consider the newly amended CCPA Regulations prohibiting “dark patterns” when a user exercises her CCPA right to opt-out from sale of her personal information.
Small Businesses and Local Governments In Cyberwar Crosshairs?
This week, we offer suggestions to small businesses and local governments who are in the crosshairs of the latest nation-state cyberattack targeting Microsoft Exchange Server email software.
Five Steps for Keeping Biometric Laws Under Your Thumb
This week, let’s consider five steps for addressing the use of biometric technologies by your business.
NYS-DFS Issues a New Cyber Insurance Risk Framework
This week, let’s take a look at the new “Cyber Insurance Risk Framework” issued by the New York State Department of Financial Services.
Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act
This week, let’s consider the latest comprehensive state privacy law — the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act.
The Future Will Be Decentralized
This week, let’ s look the trend toward decentralization that may transform the Internet and digital privacy.
Antitrust Reform and “Coopetition"
This week, let’s consider what’s happening on the Hill and in Silicon Valley—from antitrust reform to “coopetition”—and then we’re going make a prediction about new antitrust legislation.
Algorithms, GameStop and Roaring Kitty
This week, we consider about Reddit, Roaring Kitty and GameStop, along our view that platforms, like Reddit and Twitter, are fuel-injecting controversies through their use of algorithms.
A Turning Point for Broadcasting Online Misinformation and Disinformation?
This week, let’s consider how online platforms are starting to enforce their own terms of use and otherwise take responsibility for their role in broadcasting and amplifying misinformation and disinformation.
Don’t Take Analytics for Granted
This week, the FTC took action against a company for its failure to address its supply chain—and specifically, it analytics and marketing vendors. Sound familiar? Well, we predicted that this would be the year of vendor management.
2021 - The Year of Supply Chain (Vendor) Management
This week, we’re providing our privacy prediction for 2021 - Spoiler: SolarWinds will make this “the year of supply chain management.”
A Huge Software Supply Chain Attack
This week, let’s address what may be the biggest cybersecurity news of the year — the huge supply chain attack that is happening now and what your organization should do to respond.
Six Essential Pieces of Advice for Young Privacy Lawyers
We’ve aggregated some of the best advice to young lawyers that we’ve come across and added some of our own, especially for young privacy and technology lawyers.
Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity Lessons from the Latest IPOs
This week, let’s consider how Wall Street assesses privacy, data protection and cybersecurity risks by reviewing the prospectuses associated with three recent IPOs.
Don’t Forget Privacy in M&A Due Diligence
This week, let’s focus on data as a source of value (or liability) in transactions by presenting this important reminder: Don’t forget privacy in M&A due diligence (and don’t conflate privacy with cybersecurity).
Priorities and Practical Compromises for Businesses Today
This week, amidst the divides and demands that businesses face during the pandemic, let’s consider privacy and cybersecurity priorities and practical compromises.