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Data in the Balance: Political Influence on EU-U.S. Data Transfers

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/4/2025

In politically uncertain times, is your organisation’s data transfer compliance unquestionable? The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) serves as a useful mechanism for transatlantic data transfers, and it can assist...more

What Can I Help You with Today? Minimizing Legal Risks of AI-Powered Chatbots

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC on 3/12/2025

At this point, everyone has dealt with a chatbot of some nature. Whether you’re trying to change a flight or get a prescription, they are everywhere. As AI, and generative AI in particular, become more and more prevalent,...more

AI-Powered Video Game Advertising: Regulatory and IP Challenges

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC on 3/5/2025

AI is coming for digital advertising in video games. AI-driven technologies now enable the integration of dynamic, personalized advertisements within gaming environments, enhancing player engagement and offering lucrative...more

Unpacking Dark Patterns

Cozen O'Connor on 2/26/2025

“Dark patterns” have increasingly been the focus of legislative and regulatory scrutiny. Yet the phrase is never used in business. No business designs a website, mobile app, or business process with the instruction, “let’s...more

Just a Minor Threat: Online Safety Legislation Takes Off

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media on 2/21/2025

The year 2025 is certain to be a watershed for social media legislation and litigation. As it continues to shape how we connect, share, and consume information, social media remains at the forefront of public discourse due to...more

AI Hallucination Reveals More Than Its Creator Bargained For

Cranfill Sumner LLP on 2/12/2025

The concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) “hallucinating,” i.e. generating answers and sources that do not exist, is widely sweeping the popular lexicon. However, more troubling is when AI platforms do not hallucinate at...more

Hinshaw's 5 Data Privacy Day Regulatory and Litigation Predictions for 2025

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Privacy, Cyber & AI... on 1/30/2025

To commemorate Data Privacy Day, we are pleased to outline Hinshaw's top five privacy predictions for 2025. We covered our strategic recommendations for privacy planning in our earlier alert, and today, we provide some...more

Use of AI in Marketing and Digital Media - 2025 Playbook

BakerHostetler on 1/27/2025

Right now, we are all taking stock of the many important issues and challenges we saw crop up for clients last year, trying to predict what they will face in the coming year, and strategizing about how we can help....more

Sheppard Mullin’s 2024 Eye on Privacy Year in Review

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 1/22/2025

It is hard to believe that another year is upon us! As we have done in years past (including 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018), we have created a comprehensive resource of all our www.eyeonprivacy.com posts from 2024. As...more

Leveraging Privacy Compliance for Your Looming AI Risks

NAVEX on 1/21/2025

Ask a compliance officer to name their top worry about artificial intelligence, and odds are they will blurt out something to do with privacy. That doesn’t just tell us what the risks of AI are – it also gives us hints about...more

M&A in 2024 and Trends for 2025

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 1/10/2025

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

Dirty Data Damaging Deals – Data Issues in AI M&A

MoFo Tech on 1/3/2025

2024 saw strong interest in M&A involving companies that use or develop AI offerings. The rise of AI has brought new issues for dealmakers. In particular, 2024 also saw regulators focusing further on the collection and use of...more

The Intricacies of Gaze Tracking: Balancing Personalization and Privacy

Perkins Coie on 7/17/2024

In the contemporary digital ecosystem, the lines between personalization and privacy often blur, specifically when involving advanced technologies such as gaze and eye tracking. As we interact with various technologies from...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - May 2024

Robinson & Cole LLP on 5/3/2024

CYBERSECURITY - CISA + Partners Issue Alert for Protection of Water Systems, Dams, Energy + Food + Ag - In response to the growing threat by pro-Russia hacktivists, on May 1, 2023, CISA and other national agency...more

Beyond TikTok: Unraveling the American Data Dilemma

Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLP on 4/16/2024

The recent passage of H.R.7521, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (the “Act”), by the House of Representatives aims to restrict TikTok to U.S. users unless the platform’s parent...more

Latest Draft Comprehensive Data Privacy Legislation is Released

Paul Hastings LLP on 4/12/2024

Two key members of Congress unveiled the latest iteration of a proposed nationwide comprehensive privacy and data protection bill this past week. House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Senate...more

Right To Know - February 2024, Vol. 14

Clark Hill PLC on 2/14/2024

Welcome to your monthly rundown of all things cyber, privacy, and technology, where we highlight all the happenings you may have missed....more

Data Privacy Laws: What You Need to Know in 2024

Osano on 12/12/2023

Virtually every country has enacted some sort of data privacy law to regulate how information is collected, how data subjects are informed, and what control a data subject has over their information once it is transferred....more

EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework: adequacy decision adopted, the framework becomes operational

A&O Shearman on 8/14/2023

On 10 July 2023, the European Commission adopted the adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF). This decision enables the free flow of personal data from the EU and three EEA countries (Iceland,...more

Legal Risk Management: 5 Ways to Proactively Mitigate Risk

Reveal on 8/11/2023

Corporations must innovate and set themselves apart from their competition to achieve long-term success, but they cannot act with reckless abandon in doing so. Rather, they must strategically plan their moves to proactively...more

Data Privacy Framework Across the Pond

Gardner Law on 8/7/2023

If Washington State’s My Health My Data Act (“MHMDA”) “turned the beat around” on drug and device makers, then the Schrems I and II decisions by the European Court of Justice had companies on both sides of the Atlantic...more

EU-US Data Privacy Framework Goes Live: What Are the Practical Implications?

Latham & Watkins LLP on 8/1/2023

The new framework provides an additional route for personal data transfers from the EEA to the US. On 10 July 2023, the European Commission (EC) took the final step to enable businesses to start relying on the new EU-US...more

New EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework Legalizes Personal Data Transfers from the EU to US

Guidepost Solutions LLC on 8/1/2023

On July 10, 2023, the European Commission announced that it had adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF). This long-awaited decision means that for the first time since the EU-U.S...more

The EU-U.S. “Data Privacy Framework”: A New Solution for the Free Flow of Personal Data

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 7/27/2023

U.S. companies can now self-certify to permit personal data to freely flow from the Europe to the United States. U.S. organizations can now self-certify their compliance with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) to...more

New EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF)

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co. on 7/24/2023

The European Commission published a very significant adequacy decision last week, which is expected to facilitate transfers of personal information from Europe to the United States. The decision came as part of the...more

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