This week, we’re exploring the privacy issues intertwined with the launch of a biometric cryptocurrency corporation whose “Orb” technology scans your iris as a condition to issuing you “free” Worldcoin.

This week, let’s consider new precedent regarding the applicability of the EU General Data Protection Regulation in proceedings before the US Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

This week, let’s consider how Connecticut’s data breach reporting and cybersecurity laws have changed, and followed Ohio and Utah by incentivizing business to adopt recognized cybersecurity standards.

This week, let’s consider ourselves and our roles in enabling the dangerous corrosion of civic integrity (and privacy) caused by Facebook. We suggest that it’s time to permanently delete your accounts across all of Facebook’s platforms, because the truth is that Facebook has become too big to be held truly accountable by anyone except its users.

This week, let’s consider the reports from Alabama that a hospital’s mishandling of a ransomware attack tragically caused a child’s death.

This week, let’s consider how the data transfers from Europe are posing new, material risks to U.S.-based companies.

This week, let’s highlight data accuracy disclaimers in contracts, and we’ll offer some suggestions about how to avoid hidden liabilities under both privacy laws and the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

This week, let’s consider how the traditional “Right of Publicity” confronts modern privacy law, along with the California case of Brooks v. Thomson Reuters.

This week, let’s address technology issues that impact people’s lives and safety.

This week, let’s focus on the disconnect between a state’s purchase and use of data and its privacy laws—a topic “inspired” after Illinois reportedly bought geolocation data from a company funded by the former head of Saudi Intelligence.

This week, let’s look at some of the larger themes of U.S. antitrust law and the FTC’s newly amended complaint against Facebook, and then consider one timeless tip for avoiding antitrust issues.

This week, let’s call attention to some data-centric opportunities attendant to M&A deals that can shrink trouble and raise value.

This week, let’s consider whether laws should restrict the re-identification of anonymized and pseudonymized data.

This week, let’s consider the record-setting fine against Amazon under the GDPR, and what the future may hold for the EU as it continues to play a role as a global regulator.

This week, let’s review the details of the new proposed Uniform Personal Data Protection Act.

This week, let’s consider CISA’s new guidance for managed service providers and the U.S. Government’s new website to help public and private organizations defend against ransomware.

This week, let’s cover the remarkable modernization happening under Texas law and in Texas banking — hint: Texas is getting cryptocurrency friendly.