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Stay informed with our latest insights on privacy and technology trends, along with key updates from our firm.
Joint IP Ownership: Addressing Challenges and Deallocating Rights
Joint ownership of intellectual property (IP) often seems like an attractive idea to parties at the beginning of a relationship, but what happens later? This week, let’s examine the challenges of joint IP ownership and the importance of addressing deallocation in contracts.
All the Talk About Chat-GPT
This week, let’s talk about Chat-GPT as Italy’s Data Protection Authority blocks it and Elon Musk and others call for freeze amidst warnings related to privacy and the existential risk posed by too-powerful AI.
Kate Morris to Speak at HYFN Blockchain Transaction Conference
The State Bar of Texas will host its 2023 Handling Your First (or Next) Blockchain Transaction (Think Bitcoin & NFTs) Course in Austin on April 19. There, Kate Morris will appear on a panel covering cybersecurity, cyberinsurance, and privacy issues associated with blockchain technologies.
April Fools or Just Another Week in Data Privacy?
This week, as California approves its privacy regulations and Iowa enacts a new state privacy law, we consider suggestions about federal action.
Russ Pearlman selected as a “2023 Texas Rising Star”
Russ Pearlman has been selected as a “2023 Texas Rising Star” by Super Lawyers.
A New Trade-Secret Protection Act
This week, let’s consider the new “Protecting American Intellectual Property Act of 2022,” signed into law in January.
Cybersecurity Whistleblowers
This week, let’s highlight the recent uptick in cybersecurity whistleblowers, including those from the Dallas Independent School District and Twitter, and consider how to deal with cybersecurity whistleblower complaints.
Mental Health Data is For Sale
This week, let's consider banning the sale of mental health data in light of a new study published by Duke, and actions by the FTC against BetterHelp (for sharing mental health data with Facebook and others targeted advertisers) and Kochava (for selling sensitive geolocation information).
Section 702, the Supreme Court, the European Parliament, and Congress
This week, we invoke Sherlock Holmes while discussing the latest news regarding Section 702 of the National Security Act, the GDPR and cross-border data transfers.
Kate Morris to Speak at Advanced Intellectual Property Law conference
The State Bar of Texas will host its Advance IP Conference in Houston from February 23rd-24th. There, Kate Morris will present on data privacy.
SEC Proposes New Rule on Safeguarding Client Assets
This week, let’s consider the SEC’s release of a Proposed Rule regarding Safeguarding Advisory Client Assets, which specifically addresses a standard of care for security and cybersecurity related to custodial crypto assets.
Managing AI Risk: NIST Framework and ISO Guidance Announced
This week, let’s highlight the new risk management framework and guidance respectively published by NIST and ISO.
Bad Privacy Practices at GoodRx?
This week, let’s look at a new Consent Decree required by FTC and consider its prohibition of disclosure of health information for advertising purposes, along with the FTC’s expanding privacy enforcement and continued rumblings inside the Commission.
“It’s Turtles All the Way Down” - FTC Focuses on AWS Security
This week, let’s look at a recent FTC Consent Order, then consider what lessons can be drawn about using AWS. We’ll also explain how IT infrastructure fits the turtle metaphor featured in the title of this post.
HM in DBA Headnotes Discussing Uber CSO’s Criminal Conviction
Was Uber’s Chief Security Officer a villain or a scapegoat? And how should companies respond to the news of his criminal conviction? HM attorneys discuss in this month’s Headnotes for the Dallas Bar Association.
European Data Protection Authorities Set Sites on Microsoft 365
This week, let’s consider European DPAs published privacy concerns about Microsoft 365, and related risks associated with workforce productivity suites.
Cyber Liability for Directors and Officers
This week, let’s catch up on cyber liability issues — from Drizly to Uber to SolarWinds — officers and directors should be tuning in and turning their attention to cyber and privacy corporate governance and D&O insurance.
Meta’s Search for a (highly profitable) Legal Basis
This week, let’s consider the implications of the EDPB's new decision in the long-running dispute with Meta its behavioral advertising business model.
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.