Privacy Plus+ News
Stay informed with our latest insights on privacy and technology trends, along with key updates from our firm.
A New Way to Move Data from the EU to the US
This week, let’s simplify what the issuance of the new Standard Contractual Clauses really means for American businesses doing business in Europe or doing business with Europeans.
“Cyber Pearl Harbor,” Cybersecurity Executive Order, Pipeline Security Directive, and More
This week, let’s consider the latest information security developments, including what may be an impending “Cyber Pearl Harbor,” the recent Executive Order on Cybersecurity and Pipeline Security Directive, and more.
Spread the News: NYC Joins in Regulating the Use of Biometric Data
This week, let’s consider NYC’s new biometric privacy regulation and what businesses need to do to avoid being sued under that law.
Antitrust Takes Center Stage in China?
This week, let’s consider the increased regulatory scrutiny on China’s “big tech” companies and its parallels to the U.S. antitrust and trade regulation issues.
Advertising by Email: 1 Tricky Definition and 3 Practical Tips
This week, let’s consider email marketing and some tips for compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act.
Data Breaches, Employment Relationships and Inadvertent Mass Emails
This week, let’s take a look at the Second Circuit’s important recent decision on Article III standing in McMorris v. Carlos Lopez & Associates, along with the issues associated with it, including data breaches, employment relationships and dreaded, inadvertent mass emails.
Privacy and Security Risk Management – Contractual Requirements
This week, let’s consider the contractual requirements related to data processing required under several prominent privacy laws, including the GDPR, the CCPA and CPRA, the NY Shield Act, and the new VCDPA.
State Requiring Reasonable – and Documented – Data Security
This week, let’s consider how state laws are evolving to require data security safeguards and documented Written Information Security Programs.
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.