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Stay informed with our latest insights on privacy and technology trends, along with key updates from our firm.
“Data Provenance”: Navigating Ownership, Authenticity, and Rights in the Digital Age
This week, let’s examine “Data Provenance,” a concept that involves tracing the lineage of data — its origins, transformations, and ownership. We’ll also propose a new specialized application for “Data Provenance:” regulating the privacy of personal data.
Getting Smarter about AI: A Guide for Legal Professionals
This week, let’s focus on what lawyers need to know to become smarter about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in law practice.
E.U. and U.S. Have Agreed to A New Data Privacy Framework - What’s Old is New Again
This week, let’s look at the new self-certification procedure in the Data Privacy Framework facilitating the transfer of personal data from the European Union to the United States.
Top 5 Questions for Directors Re: Cyber Governance
This week, let’s focus on effective cyber governance by the board of directors, and propose some questions that every director should ask to protect themselves and their organizations from cyber risk and personal liability.
Top 5 Questions Every CISO Should Ask
This week, let’s consider some questions that every Chief Information Security Officer should ask to protect themselves and their organizations from cyber risk and personal liability.
The Escalating Battle Against Disinformation in a Digitally-Driven World
This week, we'll dissect the debates surrounding disinformation, which is poised to become even more prevalent as AI is used to fabricate counterfeit images, videos, and audio.
SolarWinds Executives May Face Personal Liability as SEC Issues Wells Notices
This week, executive cyber-liability issues continue to emerge, and here, we’re covering the related latest news in connection with the SolarWinds hack.
FTC Charges Genetic Testing Company 1Health.io with Privacy and Security Failures
This week, let’s consider the case against 1Health.io. It’s the latest FTC privacy enforcement action, and it is the first case focused on the privacy and security of genetic information.
Texas Data Privacy and Security Act
The Texas Data and Privacy Security Act is the latest comprehensive state privacy bill to be signed into law. Here, we’re summarizing it.
US Intelligence Community Is Buying “Commercially Available” Surveillance Data – What are the Implications?
This week, let’s consider a recently-declassified report issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on the Intelligence Community’s purchase and use of sensitive “Commercially Available Information.”
Janus - Use of Facial Recognition Expanded by the TSA
This week, let’s consider the Janus-faced tension between privacy and security as the TSA expands its use of facial recognition technologies in airports (while keeping its privacy policy far from a model of completeness).
When Atlas Shrugs – FTC Faults Amazon for Alexa and Ring
This week, let’s highlight the latest privacy enforcement actions by the Federal Trade Commission — two cases against Amazon; and also discuss the developing trend of holding company executives directly responsible for data protection.
The Implications of Varying "Opt-in" and "Opt-out" Requirements in New State Privacy Laws
This week, let’s examine a surprising topic: the variations among new state privacy laws regarding the obligations for "opt-in" and "opt-out" consent.
The State-by-State of Data Privacy Laws
This week, let’s consider the worldwide privacy landscape and the consequences of having a kaleidoscope of varying state privacy regulations.
Royal Ransomware Strikes Dallas – What Can be Learned?
When a library website goes down, it should not also disable police services. Let’s reflect on what we can learned from the Royal ransomware attack on the City of Dallas.
Fifth Circuit Weighs in on Privacy in Texas
This week, let’s consider “the importance of personal privacy to Texas’s legal framework” as expressly recognized by the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in its recent per curium opinion, Amin v. UPS.
Five Eyes Issues Guidance for the Deployment of “Smart City” Technologies
This week, let’s review the new “smart city” cybersecurity guidance issued by the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, and offer some perspective accrued over time as long as this guidance is overdue.
Kate Morris to Speak at UT Law’s Corporate Counsel Institute
Hosch & Morris co-founder will speak at UT Law’s 45th Annual Corporate Counsel Institute on May 4th.
Taking the Path Less Traveled: Why Tech Companies Might Think Twice Before Litigating a Breach of Contract
This week, let’s consider why a technology company might be better served by not immediately suing a customer for breach of contract, and examine some alternatives.
D Magazine Names Hosch & Morris Co-Founders on 2023 Best Lawyers in Dallas List
Kate Morris and Charles Hosch have been recognized as 2023 Best Lawyers in Dallas, each in the area of Digital Information & Technology.