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M&A in 2024 and Trends for 2025

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Global M&A in 2024 faced geopolitical issues, elevated interest rates, and inflationary pressures, with expanding antitrust, foreign investment, national security, and export regimes adding complexity. But inflation receded...more

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New State Data Protection Laws Will Impact Business Nationwide: What You Need to Know

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What You Need To Know: •The Texas Data Privacy and Security Act has broader jurisdiction than any other state data protection law and will regulate the data processing activities of thousands of companies for the first...more

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White House Issues Sweeping AI Executive Order: 10 Things Employers Need to Know

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The executive order on artificial intelligence issued by the White House yesterday is the federal government’s most ambitious attempt to date to corral this burgeoning technology – and contains numerous items of interest for...more

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Big Tech, Biometrics and BIPA: Meta’s Recent $68.5M Class Action Settlement

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In July, Instagram’s parent company Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”) agreed to a $68.5 million class-action biometric privacy settlement in connection with the company’s alleged violation of Illinois’ Biometric Information...more

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Alexa, What Do You Think of Florida’s New Data Privacy Act?

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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

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New Privacy Paradigm Time

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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

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The Robins Kaplan Privacy Pulse - Big Tech Aims to Increase Privacy Protections for Teens and Children

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Facing pressure from Congress and a groundswell of complaints by parents, many of the biggest technology companies are taking belated action to improve privacy protections for their teenage users. Though the Children’s Online...more

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Senators Aim at Big Tech with Bipartisan Privacy Bill

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On May 20, a bipartisan group of senators reintroduced the Social Media Privacy Protection and Consumer Rights Act (Act), which would force big tech companies like Facebook and Google to give consumers greater control over...more

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Florida’s Legislature Takes Gigantic Detour in Privacy Law

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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

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International statement calls for backdoor access into encrypted communications

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Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 23 (December 10, 2020) - Officials from the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India and Japan released a statement calling for big tech firms to allow...more

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