When we published our first XR survey report in 2016, major media outlets were still skeptical about whether XR, or Extended Reality, would live up to the hype, and industry respondents cited a lack of compelling content,...more
Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (Utah Law) into law on March 24, 2022, making it the fourth omnibus state privacy law enacted in the United States...more
[co-authors: Brandon Thompson and Samantha Ettari]
By restricting and changing the shape of human interaction for over a year, the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly accelerated the digitalization of many services and, in doing so,...more
11/9/2021
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Digital Health ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Innovation ,
Life Sciences ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
Vaccinations ,
Vaccine Passports
Certain California-licensed healthcare facilities are now subject to additional breach reporting obligations pursuant to regulations (Regulations)[1] issued by the California Department of Public Health (Department) on July...more
9/10/2021
/ Breach Notification Rule ,
California ,
Data Breach ,
Health Information Technologies ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
New Regulations ,
Patient Confidentiality Breaches ,
Penalties ,
Reporting Requirements ,
State and Local Government
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently published “A Proposal for Identifying and Managing Bias in Artificial Intelligence,” a special publication that is part of a series of documents and workshops...more
7/21/2021
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Bias ,
Comment Period ,
Cybersecurity ,
Facial Recognition Technology ,
FTC Act ,
Healthcare ,
New Guidance ,
NIST ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Technology Sector
Last month, the European Center for Digital Rights (more commonly known as None of Your Business or “noyb”) launched a new campaign against the use of allegedly unlawful cookie banners by sending nearly 600 draft complaints...more
In the last two years, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with other agencies in the Chinese government, launched a series of campaigns for the rectification of excessive personal...more
In what could be a harbinger of the future regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) in the United States, the European Commission published its recent proposal for regulation of AI systems. The proposal is part of the...more
4/29/2021
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Privacy ,
Disclosure ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Penalties ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Factors ,
State Legislatures ,
Technology ,
Transparency ,
United States
The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting need for patient access to remote healthcare, as well as the development of contact-tracing apps, have spotlighted the importance of health-focused mobile applications (mHealth apps)....more
12/2/2020
/ Data Collection ,
Digital Health ,
Electronic Medical Records ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Information Technologies ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Insurance Industry ,
mHealth ,
Mobile Apps ,
OCR ,
PHI ,
Popular ,
Third-Party Service Provider
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, many buyers and sellers of tech services and goods are in the process of (1) examining their existing tech agreements to determine whether the pandemic constitutes a force majeure event...more
In recent years, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in every sphere of the economy has increased dramatically. In response to its rapid growth, governments are scrambling to regulate the new technology. Most...more
7/15/2019
/ Algorithmic Trading ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Covered Entities ,
Data Processing Rules ,
Data Processors ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Robotics ,
Rulemaking Process ,
State and Local Government ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices
On September 24, 2018, the French data protection authority, Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), became the first data protection authority to issue written guidance on the intersection of the use...more
10/15/2018
/ Bitcoin Mining ,
Blockchain ,
CNIL ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Processors ,
Data Protection ,
Data Protection Authority ,
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ,
France ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Popular ,
Right to Erasure ,
Smart Contracts
Roundup of CFTC Resources -
U.S. Developments -
Cryptocurrency and the Colorado Money Transmitter License Act -
On September 20, 2018, following months of consultation with the Colorado Attorney General’s office,...more
10/2/2018
/ Bitcoin ,
Blockchain ,
CFTC ,
China ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ,
Financial Instruments ,
Initial Coin Offering (ICOs) ,
Money Transmitter ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Token Sales ,
Virtual Currency
Purpose -
Distributed ledger technology (“DLT”), including the use of blockchain technology, has been touted as a way to create and validate digital identities that serve many of the same purposes that physical forms of...more
5/22/2017
/ Anti-Money Laundering ,
Blockchain ,
Compliance ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Digital Data ,
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ,
Ethereum ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Identity Protection Services ,
Identity Theft ,
Privacy Laws ,
Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) ,
Technology ,
UFADAA