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Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

FTC Gives it to X-Mode: 5 Lessons from the Agency’s Latest Consumer Location Data Case

The FTC announced an action last week against location data broker X-Mode Social and its corporate successor Outlogic (collectively, “X-Mode”) based on several alleged violations of Section 5 of the FTC Act. According to FTC...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Biden Administration Signs Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence

On October 30, President Biden signed a sprawling executive order governing the development, testing, and use of artificial intelligence (AI).  Formally titled, "Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy...more

Sherman & Howard L.L.C.

President Biden Signs Sweeping Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence

On October 30, 2023, President Biden issued a sweeping Executive Order regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI). The order calls for federal agencies to create new standards around privacy, security, safety, and the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - March 2023

In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine Iowa’s new data privacy law (the sixth state to enact a privacy law), the Biden administration’s new national cybersecurity strategy, the U.K. government’s revised...more

Guidepost Solutions LLC

Forget Spy Balloons - The Bigger Threat is TikTok

After the downing of the Chinese spy balloon by U.S. Forces in early February 2023, several additional objects have been identified over U.S. and Canadian airspace. While officials have denied that these were additional spy...more

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It’s Here – The New National Cybersecurity Strategy

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Today, after months of rumors regarding its release and contents, the White House issued its National Cybersecurity Strategy “to secure the full benefits of a safe and secure digital ecosystem.” The full strategy is 39 pages...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Federal Privacy Bill Shows Emerging Patterns in US Privacy Law

On July 20, 2022, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce advanced a new federal privacy bill titled the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) to the House floor. Although it is not yet law, many commentators...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Bill C-26: Introducing Canada’s Critical Cyber Systems Protection Act

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On June 14, 2022, the Government of Canada introduced Bill C-26, An Act Respecting Cyber Security which, among other things, seeks to enact the Critical Cyber Systems Protection Act (“CCSPA”). The “Backgrounder” that...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Top 10 for 2022 – Happy Data Privacy Day!

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In honor of Data Privacy Day, we provide the following “Top 10 for 2022.” While the list is by no means exhaustive, it does provide some hot topics for organizations to consider in 2022...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

What We’re Reading – September 2021 - 2

Welcome to Fall 2021! We’re trying to curate some of the week’s privacy and cybersecurity news to keep you up-to-date: CONTI RANSOMWARE ON THE RISE — Another week, another US agency joint advisory on ransomware. The...more

McAfee & Taft

Oklahoma Legislature files privacy law focused on data protection and national security concerns

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Earlier this year we provided updates on Oklahoma House Bill 1602 (HB 1602), a bipartisan proposal that received national press for being one of the most stringent privacy laws proposed or enacted by a state legislature. Over...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Further Tension Between National Security and Protecting Privacy: Latest EU Judgments

United Kingdom, French and Belgian national security laws (and such laws of other EU Member States) fell under the scrutiny of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which on October 6, 2020, ruled on whether such...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 8.27.2020 | Top Story: TikTok CEO Resigns After Just 4 Months on Job

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Still-new TIkTok CEO Kevin Mayer has stepped down, “just months after taking the helm of the viral short video app.” ByteDance had appointed Mayer in May in an effort “to make the case that TikTok operates as a separate...more

Proskauer - Corporate Defense and Disputes

Senate Considers Potential Changes to ECPA to Ease Access to Electronic Data Across Borders

Terrorist attacks, most recently in London and Manchester, England, have raised the pressure on law enforcement and lawmakers in countries like the U.K. and the U.S., to proactively intercept and interrupt terrorist...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

What’s New in Washington: 10 Things You Need to Know

As the Trump presidency completes its first 10 weeks, the administration is celebrating big wins on the regulatory reform front while nursing some wounds from a major defeat on efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable...more

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