On Friday, June 11, lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee, led by Antitrust Subcommittee Chair David Cicilline (D-RI) and Ranking Member Ken Buck (R-CO), unveiled their bipartisan legislative agenda to hold Big Tech...more
Key Points -
The Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2021, a bi-partisan proposal to increase Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR) filing fees for the largest transactions, has passed the Senate...more
President Biden’s Discretionary Budget Request: Fiscal Year 2022 -
On April 9, 2021, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) submitted President Biden’s discretionary funding request (the “Request”) to Congress for...more
4/30/2021
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Biden Administration ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Government Agencies ,
NIST ,
OMB ,
U.S. Commerce Department
In this new episode of OnAir: Health Care, Akin Gump health care senior policy advisor Matthew Hittle and consultant Dr. Mario Ramirez welcome public law and policy partners Ed Pagano and Clete Willems to talk federal health...more
4/16/2021
/ American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 ,
Biden Administration ,
Budget Reconciliation ,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Health Care Providers ,
Hospitals ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Infrastructure ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Legislative Agendas ,
New Guidance ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Physicians ,
Public Health ,
Public Policy ,
Vaccinations
In this episode, Akin Gump public law and policy partner Ed Pagano, senior policy advisor Casey Higgins and international trade counsel Maka Hutson discuss the Biden comprehensive immigration bill currently on Capitol...more
The U.S. Citizenship Act, an immigration reform bill supported by President Joe Biden, was unveiled on Feb. 17 by Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif.
The bill is a key element of the president's...more
4/6/2021
/ Biden Administration ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
F-1 Visa ,
Foreign Students ,
Foreign Workers ,
Green Cards ,
H-1B ,
Highly-Skilled Workers Visa ,
Immigration Procedures ,
Immigration Reform ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Undocumented Immigrants
On Thursday, February 4, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, announced the introduction of a sweeping antitrust reform...more
On Tuesday, December 8, the House of Representatives passed S. 2258, the Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act, by voice vote, sending the bill to President Donald Trump’s desk. The measure, which unanimously passed the...more
12/16/2020
/ ACPERA ,
Anticompetitive Behavior ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Civil Liability ,
Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act of 2015 ,
Criminal Antitrust Litigation ,
GAO ,
Joint and Several Liability ,
Leniency Programs ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
Whistleblowers
On Tuesday, December 1, Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Makan Delrahim expressed support for tightening restrictions with respect to merger laws for dominant companies....more
12/7/2020
/ Acquisitions ,
Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) ,
Antitrust Division ,
Competition ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Filing Requirements ,
Hart-Scott-Rodino Act ,
Mergers ,
Public Comment ,
The Clayton Act
On Thursday, September 17, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS) and other Committee Republicans introduced a finalized version of their long-awaited data privacy legislation, which was first unveiled as a...more
9/22/2020
/ Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Processors ,
Data Transfers ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Prior Express Consent ,
Privacy Laws ,
Private Right of Action ,
Proposed Legislation
On July 21, 2020, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) jointly announced $75 million for three new quantum computing centers. The targeted investment will be...more
On Thursday, May 14, House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chair Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce (CPC) Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) introduced a bicameral counter-proposal to the...more
5/15/2020
/ Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Contact Tracing ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Covered Entities ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
PHI ,
Privacy Laws ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Public Health Emergency
Republican members of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee formally introduced legislation on May 7, 2020, to give Americans more control over and insight into how their personal health, proximity and...more
5/12/2020
/ Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Contact Tracing ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Employee Privacy Rights ,
Geological Data ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Public Health Emergency
Thursday, March 5th, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) submitted a report to Congress providing an update on FDA action to develop an enforcement discretion policy and evaluate potential regulatory pathways for consumer...more
On February 11, 2019, President Trump signed an Executive Order (E.O. 13859) launching the American Artificial Intelligence (AI) Initiative to increase U.S. prosperity, enhance national and economic security, accelerate...more
Last week the Trump administration released a set of regulatory artificial intelligence (AI) principles to govern the development of AI in the private sector. As private industry and government stakeholders increase their...more
In this episode, Akin Gump public law and policy partner Ed Pagano and senior policy advisor Galen Roehl discuss privacy legislation being considered in the U.S. Congress....more
1/9/2020
/ Connected Items ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Data Subjects Rights ,
Hackers ,
Identity Theft ,
Internet of Things ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Preemption ,
Privacy Laws ,
Privacy Legislation ,
Private Right of Action ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Smart Devices
On Tuesday, November 26, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, introduced the Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act. The bill notably contains a private right...more
On November 25, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued 15 warning letters to companies selling products containing hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) and released a summary of its approach to the regulation of CBD...more
12/3/2019
/ Cannabidiol (CBD) oil ,
Cannabis Products ,
Cannabis-Related Businesses (CRBs) ,
Dietary Supplements ,
FDA Warning Letters ,
Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
GRAS ,
Marijuana ,
Marijuana Related Businesses ,
Marketing ,
Product Labels
Key Points -
- The Online Privacy Act was introduced in the House of Representatives. If passed, it would establish individual privacy rights related to personal information.
- The Filter Bubble Transparency Act was...more
11/8/2019
/ Covered Entities ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
New Legislation ,
Online Platforms ,
Personal Data ,
Personal Information ,
Privacy Laws
• On October 17, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced legislation to establish baseline privacy and cybersecurity protections and issue fines to companies and criminal penalties to senior executives.
• The New Democrat...more
10/23/2019
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Criminal Penalties ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Enforcement Authority ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Fines ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Opt-In ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
Proposed Legislation
As Congress and the Administration continue to advance federal initiatives related to artificial intelligence (AI), private stakeholders also continue to make their voices heard. On September 23, 2019, the U.S. Chamber of...more
10/2/2019
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Chamber of Commerce ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Processors ,
Data Protection ,
Data Retention ,
Information Governance ,
Innovation ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
International Data Transfers ,
Investment Opportunities ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Research and Development ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Technology Sector
• The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect on January 1, 2020. The window of opportunity to pass federal privacy legislation to preempt the CCPA in the 116th Congress is rapidly closing.
• Discussions are...more
9/26/2019
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Preemption ,
Privacy Laws ,
Private Right of Action
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a final draft plan to prioritize federal agency engagement in the development of standards for artificial intelligence (AI). After broad public and private...more
As discussed in an earlier alert, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced their solicitation of public comment regarding their draft plan for prioritizing federal agency engagement in the...more