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The Digital Business Legal Guide: Key Legal Considerations

Mandelbaum Barrett PC on 7/29/2024

Have you ever considered the number of legal challenges that come with running a business in the digital era? Forbes predicts that the global e-commerce will surpass $6 trillion in 2024, meaning that there is no shortage of...more

INFORM ACT Takes Effect June 27: What Businesses Need to Know

Gibney Anthony & Flaherty, LLP on 6/16/2023

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the INFORM Act will take effect on June 27. Businesses with an online presence should understand what the new law means and how to prepare to avoid penalties. See Gibney’s prior...more

Key takeaways from the retail buzz coffee chat with the Hogan Lovells NY team (UPDATED)

Hogan Lovells on 4/13/2023

On 28 March 2023, the Hogan Lovells New York Retail Team hosted a coffee chat webinar discussing the latest news and developments of 2023 in retail. The event featured Meryl Bernstein (Intellectual Property, Media, and...more

Metaverse Primer

Shipkevich PLLC on 1/5/2023

The term “metaverse” first appeared in 1992 as an abstract concept in Neal Stephenson’s dystopian novel Snow Crash. Two decades later, the Metaverse has since evolved from a mere idea to a figment of everyday reality, as it...more

Tech M&A Outlook: What Types of Deals are Getting Done?

Foley & Lardner LLP on 12/8/2022

Despite the past year's economic downturn, M&A transactions in the tech sector are still getting done. It might be at a different level than 2021, but deals are happening, particularly in certain sections of the tech...more

The EU’s Digital Services Act: A Paradigm Shift for Online Intermediaries

Perkins Coie on 10/11/2022

Following the European Council's approval last week, the Digital Services Act (DSA) has been officially adopted, starting the countdown to the law’s entry into force later this year. The DSA builds on the Electronic Commerce...more

2022 Breach Notification Law Update: State and Federal Requirements Continue To Evolve

Perkins Coie on 10/7/2022

Cyberattacks continue to plague businesses, making the fallout of data breach notification and response as critical as ever. This year, like 2021, has been relatively quiet as it relates to state updates to breach...more

The Impact of SEC’s Proposed New Rules in Cyber Risk Management

Mitratech Holdings, Inc on 5/4/2022

A new discourse in the cyber risk management landscape of US public companies is here. This past March 2022, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) added another item to their to-do list by announcing a...more

Wireless Roundup (May 2022)

Wiley Rein LLP on 4/29/2022

Key Wireless Deadlines- SEC Requests Comment on Cybersecurity Reporting Requirements: The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is proposing rules to enhance and standardize disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk...more

Part 5 of 5: Gazing into the future of China’s data protection law

BCLP on 2/23/2022

China’s data protection laws have been developing actively in the recent years. This article identifies some other Chinese legal instruments which are relevant to the protection of personal information, and discusses the...more

In the Coming ‘Metaverse’, There May Be Excitement but There Certainly Will Be Legal Issues

Proskauer - New Media & Technology on 12/3/2021

The concept of the “metaverse” has garnered much press coverage of late, addressing such topics as the new appetite for metaverse investment opportunities, a recent virtual land boom, or just the promise of it all, where...more

Lodging and rental of vehicle platforms will share customers' data with the police: Spanish update

Hogan Lovells on 10/28/2021

Spanish Government has approved a Royal Decree by which people or companies that offer lodging and/or rental car (without driver) services, will need to share a very broad list of personal data with Spanish enforcement...more

Financial Daily Dose 3.8.2021 | Top Story: Senate Passes $1.9 Trillion Covid Relief Bill

Robins Kaplan LLP on 3/8/2021

The Senate passed its version of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid stimulus bill this weekend “after a grueling 27-hour session” that featured “the longest vote in modern Senate history.” ...more

Hanna Andersson and Salesforce Receive Preliminary Approval for Settlement of CCPA-Based Class Action Litigation

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 1/6/2021

In 2019, Hanna Andersson, a children’s apparel store, suffered a data breach while using a Salesforce e-commerce platform. As a result of the breach, customers filed a class action lawsuit, alleging customer data was stolen...more

New DSA and DMA E-Commerce Rules to Note: Europe Overhauls Digital Services and Markets Regulations

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 12/23/2020

The introduction of the DSA and the DMA will be the biggest shake-up of e-commerce rules since the dot-com boom. Businesses caught by the scope of the new digital services laws will be subject to a host of new obligations...more

Strong Customer Authentication in the United States: When, Not If

Jones Day on 12/20/2020

The Situation: Although the deadline keeps getting extended, e-commerce merchants and payment processors across the European Union are racing to implement the strong customer authentication ("SCA") requirements of the Revised...more

EU Data Localization Would Hurt U.S. Businesses

Womble Bond Dickinson on 12/4/2020

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

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - December 2020

Robinson & Cole LLP on 12/4/2020

CYBERSECURITY - Cyber Exposures Rise During Pandemic - Although it is logical that cyber-attacks have risen during the pandemic, and there is anecdotal evidence that it is occurring, including our own experience, an...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - November 2020 #4

Robinson & Cole LLP on 11/25/2020

CYBERSECURITY - Responding to Cyber-Attacks in the Utility and Energy Sectors - To assist utilities with assessing and responding to cyber risks, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the North American...more

Privacy Tip #261 – Online Shopping Tips for the Holidays

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 11/25/2020

I have done more online shopping this year than ever before, and I know that I am not alone. With the holidays approaching, this will only increase because of the pandemic, and hackers and fraudsters know it....more

Social Links: Avoid Becoming A Social-Media-Scam Victim; Does Stream-Ripping Site Violate Copyright Law?

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media on 11/6/2020

Reports of social media scams that have caused users to lose money had tripled by the end of 2020’s second quarter, resulting in the loss of $117 million during the first two quarters of this year alone. Romance scams and...more

Data Privacy and E-Commerce: Considerations for the Food and Beverage Industry

International Lawyers Network on 9/17/2020

The global food and beverage e-commerce market is expected to grow to $22.4 billion in 2020, possibly reaching $36.4 billion in 2023. That’s up from $14.9 billion in 2019. Food and beverage e-commerce revenue in the United...more

The dust has finally settled – the long journey of China's new Personal Information Security Specification

Hogan Lovells on 5/11/2020

More than one year after the release of a draft amended version of the GB/T 35273-2017 Information Security Technology – Personal Information Security Specification (the 2017 Specification) for public comments in January...more

Using E-Commerce to Survive COVID-19

Lathrop GPM on 4/8/2020

As businesses have been forced to close their brick-and-mortar stores and we are all practicing safe distancing, COVID-19 has already had a significant impact on how we conduct business by causing more people to work remotely...more

Defense Procurement Overview of the FY 2020 National Defense Authorization Act

Perkins Coie on 12/23/2019

Cybersecurity, supply chain risks, data rights, software acquisitions, and cost or pricing data are among the procurement-related issues targeted in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which...more

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