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Stay informed with our latest insights on privacy and technology trends, along with key updates from our firm.
FTC takes Action Against Drizly and its CEO: Will Protecting Data Become a Priority for CEOs?
The FTC wants to send a very clear message to CEOs: Protecting Americans’ data is not discretionary. It must be a priority. For Drizly’s CEO’s privacy and data security have become an albatross for him to carry to his future businesses under latest FTC proposed consent order.
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.
Preserving Privilege During a Merger or Acquisition
This week, let’s address what happens to attorney-client privilege during a merger or acquisition. Here, we’re offering some suggestions about deal terms addressing privilege and data ownership, especially as they relate to sensitive pre-close deal communications about diligence, deal terms, and negotiations.
Hubris, Fantasies, and No Accountability
This week, let's consider some commonalities underlying the problems plaguing Twitter, Meta, TikTok, and crypto-exchange FTX.
ICARUS FALLS: SBF, FTX, $FTT, WTH?
This week, we’re offering an explainer on SBF, FTX, $FTT, and what happened with crypto.
What the Supreme Court Has Said About Privacy (Including in Dobbs)
This week, we’re encouraging you to vote as if your liberty interests depend on it, while relatedly highlighting the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on the right to privacy, including what C.J. Roberts called its “jolt[ing]” decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.
“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.
Privacy Post-Dobbs
Join Kate Morris and the Dallas Bar Association on November 3rd for a special program on "The Legal Implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs Decision and the Related Texas Legislation."
Legal Issues Surrounding Customer Lists
This week, let’s examine the nine (9) or more areas of law surrounding Customer Lists, which are often among the blue-ribbon prizes in fights among competitors or between employers and their departing employees.
The Care and Handling of CEII
This week, let’s consider Controlled Unclassified Information, and how one example of it—Critical energy/electric infrastructure information—is regulated in the energy industry.
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.
The Tao of a Privacy Notice
This week, let’s examine the ideal harmony between privacy notices and privacy practices, and offer some suggestions to organizations that remain tempted to cut-and-paste someone else’s privacy notice or tantalized by offers of $20 privacy notices.
Predicting the Future of Privacy Law into 2023
This week, let’s look ahead toward the State of Privacy in 2023. With the New Year little more than 100 days away, what should we expect?
School’s back in session: Starting with Trade Secrets
This week, let’s join “Professor Hosch” at the start of a new law school year, considering the protection of trade secrets. What are “reasonable measures” to keep the information secret? Let’s take a look.
How to Go Quasi-Dark – Email and Messaging Edition
This week, we’re covering the intriguing topic of how to communicate over the Internet as privately and securely as possible.
Free Privacy Training Re: GDPR and More
This week, let’s highlight a free resource that may be helpful to any business subject to the GDPR’s requirements.
Facebook Gave Police Data to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion. What’s next?
This week, let’s confront more Facebook/Meta privacy problems by examining Facebook’s Privacy Policy alongside the recent news that Facebook/Meta gave data to police in Nebraska for the purpose of investigating and prosecuting a teenager for an abortion.
Unfortunate Jest: Endorsement by the Department of Defense?
This week, we’re pointing out a privacy and security problem affecting the U.S. Department of Defense’s procurement process and the commercial world — there’s a disconnect between DOD contracts for facial recognition tech and what we’re seeing in diligence.
Ain’t Gonna Cut It: The (current) American Data Privacy Protection Act
This week, we highlight the problems with the American Data Privacy Protection Act, a draft bill in Congress that purports to be a comprehensive data privacy bill.