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Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Benefits Monthly Minute - September 2024

The September Monthly Minute highlights the DOL’s extension of existing cybersecurity guidance to health and welfare plans and also addresses the new HIPAA reproductive health privacy rule....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

With Net Neutrality Order, FCC Grants Broadband-Only ISPs New Pole Attachment Protections

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on April 25, 2024 to reinstate its net neutrality rules by reclassifying broadband internet access service (BIAS) as a “telecommunications service” under Title II of the...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

A Well-Informed Start to 2024: BBK’s Guidance for New Laws in California – Part Five

New Legislation Related to Local Government - In Part Five of the New Law Guidance series from Best Best & Krieger LLP (BBK), we cover important new legislation for 2024 related to local government. Below we provide...more

The Volkov Law Group

Sanctions in the Twenty-First Century: UK Imposes Social Media Restrictions in Response to Continued Russian Aggression

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Under a statutory instrument promulgated under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (amending the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019)), the UK government recently passed sweeping new trade restrictions...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Introduction of internet-related Russia trade sanctions in the UK

On April 29, 2022, the UK introduced new measures to prevent the provision of internet services to or for the benefit of designated persons. These measures apply to the whole territory of the UK and to conduct by UK persons...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

EU Data Localization Would Hurt U.S. Businesses

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Stung by Brexit and set adrift by a neglectful U.S. foreign policy, the European Union has started to explore new ways of breaking away from the rest of the world, including taking steps to cordon EU data into locally managed...more

Hogan Lovells

The European Union adopts a new .EU Regulation

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On 19 March 2019, the European Union adopted Regulation (eu) 2019/517 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 March 2019 on the implementation and functioning of the .eu top-level domain name and amending and...more

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California Enacts Nation’s First Anti-Bot Law

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On September 28, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law S.B. 1001, which makes it illegal “for any person to use a bot to communicate or interact with another person in California online, with the intent to mislead...more

Hogan Lovells

Geoblocking – EU Parliament approves new regulation

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The regulation on measures against unjustified geo-blocking is close to become binding law. After the European institutions had reached a compromise on some last open issues in last November, the European Parliament approved...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

China Imposes New Restrictions on Internet Content

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Rules imposing new restrictions on the publication of online content in China came into effect on March 10, 2016. The new rules, the Online Publishing Service Administrative Rules, were jointly released by the State...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

China Tightens Regulation of Online Publications

On Feb. 4, 2016, China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (“SAPPRFT”) and the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly released the Administrative Rules on Network...more

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Tightening Internet Regulation in China

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The longstanding tension in China between expansion of service to the Internet and regulation of content on the Internet has entered a new phase. While the so-called Great Firewall remains in place to block unwanted overseas...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

China Imposes Broad New Restrictions on Publication of Internet Content

New rules just published by the PRC impose new licensing and censorship requirements on almost all internet content providers, including publishers and aggregators of news, advertisements, social media content and mobile...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

FCC Adopts On-Line Contest Rules

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The FCC has updated its contest rules to enable broadcasters to post material terms on-line rather than requiring disclosure through over-the-air announcements. Licensees still retain the option to disclose material...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Privacy Monday – Privacy Bits and Bytes to Start Your Week: July 8th, 2013

UK Regulators Tell Google: Rewrite that Privacy Policy — Or Else It’s been clear since last year that many European data protection regulators were very unhappy with Google’s “new” privacy policy. The UK Information...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Privacy Alert: New COPPA Rule Effective July 1, 2013

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New amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule go into effect today, July 1, 2013. Amongst the significant changes introduced by the new Rule, the newly expanded definition of “personal information” and new...more

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