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Nota Bene Podcast Episode 134: U.S. Q3 Check In: Infrastructure Bill Updates and Big Tech Antitrust with Elizabeth Frazee and Chani Wiggins
Nota Bene Episode 116: Challenging the U.S. Big Tech Antitrust Debate Assumptions: A Deep Dive with Thomas Dillickrath and Bill Margeson
What to Expect from the Biden Administration
Nota Bene Episode 104: European Q4 Check In: Brexit, Digital Platform Regulation, and National Security Regulation with Oliver Heinisch
Nota Bene Episode 68: The Current Antitrust Enforcement Climate in the United States with Capitol Forum Senior Editor Nate Soderstrom
Nota Bene Episode 46: America’s Existential Antitrust Crisis with Thomas Dillickrath
On May 9, the Office of the Attorney General for Texas announced it reached a $1.375 billion settlement with a tech company for the violation of Texas data privacy laws. The lawsuit alleged unlawful tracking of users’ private...more
Hot on the trail of the latest state privacy laws to come into effect, Florida has jumped on board to keep the momentum going. On June 6, 2023, Florida Senate Bill 262 (“SB 262,”) was signed into law, meaning a new set of...more
On June 30, after a 5-month delay from the originally-scheduled effective date (to give app developers more time to comply), Apple’s new account deletion requirement went into effect. As a result, companies with mobile apps...more
Four years after GDPR was implemented, we are seeing the pillars of the internet business destroyed. Given two new EU decisions affecting the practical management of data, all companies collecting consumer data in the EU are...more
Why don’t our new privacy laws really protect our privacy? Are we going about this the wrong way? The topic was raised in the recent Capital Forum of state and federal enforcement agencies by FTC Chair Lena Kahn, who...more
Since 2018, the decision-making arsenal of the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has included the Regulatory Panel, a body tasked with making independent recommendations to the Commissioner regarding proposed...more
In 2017, Saadia Madsbjerg, Managing Director of the Rockefeller Foundation, reflected on the billions of dollars in economic value generated each year from corporations buying and selling consumer personal data, and posited...more
Turns out that Florida’s greatest rivalry is not between FSU and UF. Rather, it appears to be between businesses and consumers. At least, that is how it appears to be if you examine the Florida Legislature’s latest...more
Your body may be a wonderland or a wasteland, but it is a goldmine of data. Collectors of information have noticed. In our midwinter exploration of the economic and legal foundations of data regulation, we next turn to a...more
How will a Biden-Harris presidency affect the U.S. privacy landscape? Let’s take a look. Federal Privacy Legislation - On both sides of the political aisle there have been draft proposals in the last 18 months on federal...more
Big Tech companies using facial recognition software have begun to support “’precision regulations’ that don’t allow mass surveillance.” Lawmakers in New York, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Michigan, and California are considering...more
Facebook and the FTC have agreed to terms on a settlement addressing the social network’s privacy violations in recent years. Along with the previously reported $5 billion fine, the deal will require Facebook to “add new...more