A Sneak Peek into Data Mapping: What Implementation Really Looks Like
It's Time to Think About Data Mapping Differently
EEO-1 Filing After June 4: What to Do Now, and How to Prepare for Next Year - Employment Law This Week®
Navigating State Privacy Laws
[Webinar] You Are Here: First Steps in Data Mapping
An Ounce of Prevention: Keys to Understanding and Preventing AI and Cybersecurity Risks
Calculating eDiscovery Costs: Tips from Brett Burney
State AG Pulse | Content moderation vs. free expression
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 14: How Employers Can Navigate Cybersecurity Issues with Brandon Robinson, Maynard Nexsen Attorney
Navigating the Digital Frontier: Employee Privacy Rights and Legal Obligations in the Modern Workplace
DE Under 3: OMB Announced Finalized Overhaul to Federal Race & Ethnicity Data Collection Standards
Embracing Data Privacy to Drive Business Growth: On Record PR
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 6: Digital Forensics & Protecting Trade Secrets with Clark Walton
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - U.S. State Data Privacy Update
Managing Large Scale Review Efficiency: Tips From a GC
AD Nauseam – Children, They are Indeed Our Future – COPPA Developments
1071 Rule Status — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Data Dividend: What is Personal Data Worth?
The Great Link Debate and the Future of Cloud Collaboration
RegFi Episode 9: Consumer Data Collection and Usage with Eric Ellman
X Agrees to Stop Processing EU Data to Train its Grok AI - Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (“DPC”) recently filed an urgent High Court application against X (formerly Twitter) for using the personal data of European...more
Social media giant TikTok has been sued by the United States for allegedly collecting data on children under thirteen illegally. The suit claims the app, which is owned by China-based parent company ByteDance, allowed...more
Meta Lays the Groundwork for Potential Sea Change in BIPA Litigation - In Zellmer v. Meta Platforms, the Ninth Circuit evaluated an appeal from summary judgment entered in favor of Meta. This case stemmed from the...more
X Corp (formerly Twitter) has cracked down on data scrapers in a series of lawsuits filed within the last several weeks. One lawsuit targets an Israel-based research firm that provides commercial data scraping, called Bright...more
With the turbulence at Twitter, Mary Mack decided to back up our outgoing tweets, followers and lists that she uses to curate news. In order to archive she found there were many steps and a few tools needed to do so and is...more
With the turbulance at Twitter, I decided to back up my outgoing tweets, followers and my lists I use to curate news. This exercise can be used for archiving, disaster recovery, or for preservation purposes. The archive that...more
This week, in addition to the news-catching, ongoing dispute between Twitter and Elon Musk, Twitter’s former head of cybersecurity, Peiter Zatko, claimed in a whistleblower filing with several federal agencies that Twitter...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) recently ordered Twitter to pay $150 million for violating a 2011 FTC order that prohibited the company from misrepresenting its privacy and data security...more
California Privacy Protection Agency previews draft regulations - On June 8, 2022, less than two months since the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) formally took over rulemaking for the California Consumer...more
The Federal Trade Commission has levied a negotiated $150 million civil penalty against Twitter for violating an existing FTC order for alleged misrepresentations to its users, claiming the company deceptively collected...more
Last week, the United States Department of Justice, acting on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission, took action against Twitter, Inc. for allegedly using private account security data to sell targeted advertisements without...more
Surging bond yields raised fears that government, consumer, and business spending could become more expensive, leading to a “tumultuous day in financial markets” that prompted some to blame the Fed for not expressing...more
The latest lame-duck Covid relief package proposal would trim about 150 billion dollars (and a number of key sticking points, including funds “to bolster state and local governments, and a temporary coronavirus liability...more
Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 16 (August 20, 2020) - After Twitter disclosed in October 2019 that it had used sensitive information for marketing purposes, investigations by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)...more
A proposed class action filed in federal court in California on Tuesday accuses Google of “surreptitiously amass[ing] billions of bits of information—every day—about internet users even if they opt out of sharing their...more
Helpful Privacy Tips When Working from Home - It is a reasonably safe assumption that extended WFH will lead to increased TOSM (Time On Social Media). Unfortunately, when it comes to social media use protecting private...more
Social media contact lists have become an increasingly important part of a business’s customer lists. While courts are still grappling with who legally “owns” the data that the employee acquired on the employer’s dime—such...more
With billions of active accounts across multiple social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and more, user-generated content is being created at an incredible pace. Social media information is...more
When you need information, where do you go? For the majority of people today, the answer involves a smartphone and social media. From Facebook and LinkedIn to Instagram, Twitter, and even YouTube, social media is...more
With a high-level White House meeting on Friday, the US and China have extended trade talks, even as a “final deal remains elusive” (aka, nothing at all is in writing yet). It also appears that the purported progress is...more
Welcome to the newest issue of Socially Aware, our Burton Award winning guide to the law and business of social media. In this edition, we present a “grand unifying theory” of today’s leading technologies and the legal...more
Instagrowth. Instagram’s relationship with Facebook is turning out to be mutually beneficial. Since Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012, the photo sharing platform has passed the 300-million-user mark, surpassing...more
The digital revolution has caused tremendous growth in the volume of documents stored and collected electronically. It has also caused the creation of new sources of digital data, one of the most significant of which is...more
Earlier this year, the French consumer association UFC-Que Choisir initiated proceedings before the Paris District Court against Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc., accusing these companies of using confusing and...more
Despite the government shutdown, the Supreme Court is in for the 2013-2014 session. There are a couple of privacy cases on the agenda. U.S. v. Wurie and Riley v. California - At issue: Separate appeals over...more