Privacy Plus+ News
Stay informed with our latest insights on privacy and technology trends, along with key updates from our firm.
Five Steps for Keeping Biometric Laws Under Your Thumb
This week, let’s consider five steps for addressing the use of biometric technologies by your business.
NYS-DFS Issues a New Cyber Insurance Risk Framework
This week, let’s take a look at the new “Cyber Insurance Risk Framework” issued by the New York State Department of Financial Services.
Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act
This week, let’s consider the latest comprehensive state privacy law — the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act.
The Future Will Be Decentralized
This week, let’ s look the trend toward decentralization that may transform the Internet and digital privacy.
Antitrust Reform and “Coopetition"
This week, let’s consider what’s happening on the Hill and in Silicon Valley—from antitrust reform to “coopetition”—and then we’re going make a prediction about new antitrust legislation.
Algorithms, GameStop and Roaring Kitty
This week, we consider about Reddit, Roaring Kitty and GameStop, along our view that platforms, like Reddit and Twitter, are fuel-injecting controversies through their use of algorithms.
A Turning Point for Broadcasting Online Misinformation and Disinformation?
This week, let’s consider how online platforms are starting to enforce their own terms of use and otherwise take responsibility for their role in broadcasting and amplifying misinformation and disinformation.
Don’t Take Analytics for Granted
This week, the FTC took action against a company for its failure to address its supply chain—and specifically, it analytics and marketing vendors. Sound familiar? Well, we predicted that this would be the year of vendor management.
2021 - The Year of Supply Chain (Vendor) Management
This week, we’re providing our privacy prediction for 2021 - Spoiler: SolarWinds will make this “the year of supply chain management.”
A Huge Software Supply Chain Attack
This week, let’s address what may be the biggest cybersecurity news of the year — the huge supply chain attack that is happening now and what your organization should do to respond.
Six Essential Pieces of Advice for Young Privacy Lawyers
We’ve aggregated some of the best advice to young lawyers that we’ve come across and added some of our own, especially for young privacy and technology lawyers.
Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity Lessons from the Latest IPOs
This week, let’s consider how Wall Street assesses privacy, data protection and cybersecurity risks by reviewing the prospectuses associated with three recent IPOs.
Don’t Forget Privacy in M&A Due Diligence
This week, let’s focus on data as a source of value (or liability) in transactions by presenting this important reminder: Don’t forget privacy in M&A due diligence (and don’t conflate privacy with cybersecurity).
Priorities and Practical Compromises for Businesses Today
This week, amidst the divides and demands that businesses face during the pandemic, let’s consider privacy and cybersecurity priorities and practical compromises.
Artificial Intelligence Needs Human Values
This week, let’s work toward finding a global consensus regarding the values that unpin the development and deployment of artificial intelligence systems as we consider UNESCO’s draft Recommendation on the Ethics of AI.
The Whirlwind Week - Regulating Ant, Settling Zoom, Re-envisioning Data Transfers and Coding a Dystopia
This week, let’s consider a whirlwind of privacy and technology developments across the globe—from regulating Ant to settling Zoom to re-envisioning data transfers to coding a dystopia.
May it Be Human: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and the Pope
This week, let’s explore insight offered by Pope Francis into artificial intelligence and robotics.
The Digital Privacy - Artificial Intelligence Conundrum
This week, on the eve of Ant Group’s huge IPO, let’s consider how the U.S. can balance digital privacy while maintaining an AI-friendly business environment.
The First Amendment in the Age of Disinformation
This week, we consider the First Amendment in an era of disinformation.
Clarifying Section 230 Means Looking Beyond the Immunity Provision
This week, controversy continues to stir about platform immunity under the Communications Decency Act, so let’s consider how the findings and policy statements underlying that immunity may shed light on the statute’s proper application.