3/11/2025 10:35:21 AM Pin Drop: California AG Takes Aim at Location Data Practices By Andrew Folks On March 10, 2025, the California Attorney General’s Office announced an ongoing investigative sweep into the location data practices of...
3/7/2025 6:02:50 PM App to No Good? Novel App Store Age Verification Bill Passes Utah Legislature By Andrew Folks In the online safety conversation, assigning responsibility for verifying a user’s age has been a protracted study in buck passing....
3/5/2025 1:17:20 AM X'ed Out: California Social Media Transparency Law Partially Enjoined for First Amendment Violations By Emma Smizer On Tuesday, March 4, 2025, a California federal court entered its final judgment regarding X's lawsuit against the landmark California...
2/27/2025 1:03:37 AM S.D.N.Y. Deals A Blow To Website Tracking Litigation By Caren Decter The Southern District of New York is becoming a less favorable venue for serial plaintiffs asserting that website tracking technologies...
2/25/2025 9:48:37 PM Recent California State Court Wins for Defendants in Website Tracking Cases By Regina Gerhardt In the past month, California judges have issued encouraging decisions for defendants in cases asserting that website tracking...
2/24/2025 10:07:08 PM FTC Takes Aim at Tech Platform Content Moderation By Andrew Folks The Federal Trade Commission under new Chair Andrew Ferguson is wasting little time scrutinizing how technology platforms moderate...
2/22/2025 8:17:14 PM FTC Releases Initial Findings On Surveillance Pricing Study By Terri Seligman As I blogged about back in August, the FTC issued orders under its Section 6(b) authority to several companies that offer “surveillance...
2/21/2025 10:15:20 PM Bankrupt but Not Off the Hook: CPPA Takes a $46,000 Byte Out of National Public Data By Bram Schumer The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) has launched an enforcement action against Jerico Pictures, Inc., doing business as...
2/12/2025 10:36:25 PM Amazon Faces Lawsuit Under Washington’s “My Health My Data” Privacy Law By Maria Nava Washington’s My Health My Data law (“MHMD”) is finally facing a test. This week, Amazon has been accused of violating a myriad of...
2/11/2025 11:55:47 PM BREAKING: COURT RULES THAT DEVELOPER'S USE OF COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL TO TRAIN AI IS NOT FAIR USE By Jeremy Goldman This morning, the court in Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence produced one of the first major rulings to address the application of...
2/3/2025 6:44:58 PM Key Insights on Copyright and AI from the U.S. Copyright Office’s 2025 Report By Zach Lewis For years now, the intersection of artificial intelligence and copyright law has been the center of attention for artists, creators,...
2/1/2025 2:27:37 AM NYDFS Imposes $2 Million Fine on PayPal for Cybersecurity Violations By Bram Schumer On January 23, 2025, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) announced a Consent Order against PayPal, Inc., imposing...
1/31/2025 4:02:21 PM The New York Health Law with Dramatic Implications for Insurance Carriers and Brokers By Rick Borden Andrew Folks A bill on New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk poses significant compliance challenges for businesses in the insurance sector. On...
1/29/2025 1:19:17 PM Second Circuit Clarifies When Content Moderation Risks DMCA Safe Harbor By Jeremy Goldman The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently published an important decision in Capitol Records, LLC v. Vimeo, LLC (Jan. 13,...
1/27/2025 4:41:51 PM ABA Issues Comprehensive Formal Ethics Opinion on Lawyers’ Use of Generative AI By Kristen Niven The American Bar Association (“ABA”) Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility published its first Formal Opinion on...
1/23/2025 4:12:56 PM I’m Not Dead Yet: Biden’s Executive Order re Cybersecurity May Still Matter in a Trump Administration By Bram Schumer Biden’s 11th hour Executive Order on Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity (the “Order”) provides...