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The LathamTECH Podcast — Getting Deals Done: Tackling Antitrust Challenges in Tech M&A
The Future of Supply Chains: Chris Andrassy on Using AI to Predict & Prevent Disruptions
How IP Can Fuel Your Startup's Growth
Inside a $175M Deal: Tim McLoughlin & Joshua Hayes Live From RDU Startup Week
Daily Compliance News: May 21, 2025, The I Want You Back Edition
Upping Your Game: Episode 3 - Embedded Compliance: From Gatekeeper to Business Enabler
State AG Pulse | Massive Google Settlement Shows AGs Serious About Privacy
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 69 - Human Intelligence vs. Machine Judgment with Nigel Morris-Cotterill and Patrick Dransfield
From Cell Phones to Tractors: The Right to Repair Movement Drives On — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Innovation in Compliance: Exploring the Intersection of Compliance, Technology, and AI with Ben Sperry
Upping Your Game: Episode 1 – Meeting Hui Chen’s Challenge
Compliance Tip of the Day: AI and Compliance Education
Sunday Book Review: April 27, 2025, The Books on Business for May Edition
The Briefing: The Future of TV? A 2025 Digital Media Trends Analysis
Innovation in Compliance: Design-Centric Compliance Training with Karen Oddo
Daily Compliance News: April 10, 2025, The Dark Money Corruption Edition
The LathamTECH Podcast — Can RSUs Unlock Employee Equity?
A Guide to SEP: Standard Essential Patents for Tech Startups
FINCast Ep. 40 – 21st Century Financial Warfare: Technology, Economy, & National Security
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On August 29, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) withdrew its appeal of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas’s June 20, 2024, decision in American...more
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In a consequential decision for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-regulated entities, on June 20, 2024, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled in American Hospital Association...more
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The CPPA, the California regulatory body charged with enforcing CCPA, recently released draft regulations for use of automated decisionmaking technology. The draft comes under the law’s requirements for the agency to issue...more
In July 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) sent a joint letter to approximately 130 hospital systems and telehealth providers raising...more
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A new report issued by the World Economic Forum (WEF) called “Global Risks Report 2018,” lists the threat of cyber-warfare and cyber-attacks affecting the public as the world’s third greatest threat in 2018, only behind...more
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Welcome to the newest edition of Socially Aware, our Burton Awardwinning guide to the law and business of social media. In this edition, we explore the threat to U.S. jobs posed by rapid advances in emerging technologies;...more
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On February 6, 2017, Vizio Inc., a manufacturer and seller of internet-connected “smart” televisions, agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the Office of the New Jersey...more
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a press release on February 6, 2017 that it and the State of New Jersey have settled with Vizio for $2.2 million for claims that Vizio installed software on its smart TVs to collect...more
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