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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Red Notice Newsletter - December 2019

IN THIS ISSUE • Anticorruption Developments • Export Control Sanctions and Customs Enforcement • Export Control and Sanctions Developments • Global Investigations Resources • Writing and Speaking Engagements ...more

Perkins Coie

China’s New Draft Encryption Law

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The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress released the Encryption Law of the People’s Republic of China (Draft) for public comment on July 5, 2019 (the “2019 Draft”). The Encryption Law is being enacted to do...more

Jones Day

DOJ Obtains Price-Fixing Guilty Plea

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Texas-based e-commerce company Zaappaaz, Inc.—doing business as WB Promotions, Inc., Wrist-Band.com, and Customlanyard.net—and its president both agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to fix prices for customized promotional...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Third Circuit Holds Criminal Defendant in Contempt for Refusing to Decrypt Hard Drives

In a precedential ruling, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals this week upheld a lower court’s ruling holding a criminal defendant in contempt for refusing to decrypt two external hard drives that were seized during a child...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"Cross-Border Investigations Update - June 2016"

This issue of Skadden’s semiannual Cross-Border Investigations Update takes a look at recent cases and enforcement trends, including proposed amendments to China’s commercial bribery law, the use in U.S. courts of compelled...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Should Smartphone Manufacturers Be Legally Compelled to Unlock Users’ Devices?

Picture this: A criminal defendant is indicted for three counts related to the possession of methamphetamine, and federal prosecutors obtain a warrant for the defendant’s iPhone. But the iPhone is passcode protected, and...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Massachusetts High Court Permits Compelled Decryption of Seized Digital Evidence

Today, in Commonwealth v. Gelfgatt, No. SJC-11358 (Mass. June 25, 2014), a divided Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that under certain circumstances, a court may compel a criminal defendant to provide the password to...more

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