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Use of Tracking Tools Requires Notice and Consent!

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP on 4/11/2025

When browsing the internet, consumers are accustomed to being presented with advertisements for products for which they previously had searched. Through use of third-party tracking tools, companies are able to monitor visitor...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

Valid Consent: General Public vs. Gamblers

Fox Rothschild LLP on 1/31/2025

A new decision by the United Kingdom’s high court says that even if you have cookie and marketing consent mechanisms that are sufficient for valid consent under privacy laws for the general public, they may not be enough for...more

Zooming in on AI - #7: AI under financial regulations in the U.S., EU and U.K. - a comparative assessment of the current state of...

A&O Shearman on 10/21/2024

This is the final note in a three-part series on the regulation of artificial intelligence in the financial services sector in the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom. Our first note, we provided a...more

The EU AI Act: What Businesses Need To Know

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 6/27/2024

The newly approved Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act or the Act) aims to create a secure and trustworthy environment for the development and use of AI in the European Union....more

Colorado Passes New Watershed AI Consumer Protection Bill

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 5/28/2024

Key Points - Colorado’s new AI law creates new obligations for developers and deployers of high-risk artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Similar to the EU AI Act, the law is risk-based and defines a “high-risk” AI system as...more

States Begin To Regulate AI in Absence of Federal Legislation

Perkins Coie on 5/23/2024

The European Union seized the early global lead in regulating artificial intelligence (AI) by passing its AI Act on March 13, 2024, following a lengthy legislative process. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the U.S. Congress...more

AI & You: Key Considerations for a Company’s Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems

Fox Rothschild LLP on 3/25/2024

Businesses increasingly rely on technology containing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to streamline operations, enhance employee experiences and drive strategic decision-making. The integration of AI into work systems, including...more

GDPR and U.S. States' General Privacy Laws Deskbook

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 4/18/2023

California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020) and Related Regulations - 1798.100 General Duties of Businesses that Collect Personal Information - (a) A business that...more

The march to regulatory change for artificial intelligence: the commonalities between the EU and US

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 3/7/2023

This briefing links up some commonalities between the EU and US in terms of the AI march to regulatory change. Our global regulatory specialists have put their heads together for this update on EU, New York City (NYC) and...more

One For All! Collective Redress Is Coming To The EU

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 7/16/2020

The EU may soon introduce and adopt a collective redress directive that will make it possible for consumers across the EU to bring forward class action cases on various legal matters. The European collective redress system,...more

UK Business Exposure To The California Consumer Privacy Act 2018 ("CCPA")

White & Case LLP on 2/1/2020

The CCPA took effect on 1 January 2020, introducing significant compliance burdens for most businesses that collect personal information about California residents. The reach of the CCPA extends beyond California and the US;...more

Do Turkish Companies Have to Comply With the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”)?

White & Case LLP on 1/8/2020

Your business complies with the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") and/or Turkish Personal Data Protection Law numbered 6698 and its secondary legislation ("PDPL"); but does it comply with the California Consumer...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - August 2019

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 9/5/2019

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the European Parliament's report on whether and how the use of blockchain technology can comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, as well as...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - July 2019

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 8/2/2019

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine New York's new laws expanding consumer protection for data breaches, the D.C. Circuit's two rulings deepening the split regarding standing in data...more

New York Poised to Make Big Splash in State Data Protection Law

Lathrop GPM on 6/24/2019

California and New York make big waves when they pass laws regulating privacy and data. We have previously described the changes coming in 2020 with the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”)....more

Nevada Consumers Can Now Opt-Out of a Sale of Personal Information

Polsinelli on 6/6/2019

On May 29, 2019, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak signed into law Senate Bill 220 (SB 220), which allows a Nevada consumer to “opt-out” of the sale of his or her personal information to a third party. ...more

Data Privacy Legislation in Other States

Lathrop GPM on 4/17/2019

As noted in our two prior alerts, CCPA Part 1 and Part 2, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is bringing GDPR-like data protection to the United States. Other states are now following suit. The California...more

Busting the Myth: Compliance with the ‘Gold Standard’ of the GDPR Does Not Buy You a ‘Free Pass’ Under China’s New Personal...

Hogan Lovells on 11/14/2018

On December 29, 2017, the Standardization Administration of China, jointly with the PRC General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, issued the Information Security Technology – Personal...more

Senate Proposes Privacy Bill To Mimic GDPR And Target CEOs

King & Spalding on 11/13/2018

Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has proposed sweeping new legislation that would overhaul internet privacy protections in the United States in the same vein as the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The...more

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Practical Guide

BCLP on 9/27/2018

There are significant differences between the version of the CCPA that was first proposed as a ballot initiative in 2017 and the version of the CCPA that was ultimately passed by the state legislature in 2018. In general, the...more

The Practical Guide to the California Consumer Privacy Act: Part 5 The Right to Opt-Out of Information Selling

BCLP on 8/31/2018

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) is arguably the most comprehensive - and complex - data privacy regulation in the United States. The CCPA was designed to emulate the European General Data Protection...more

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 - Increased Consumer Privacy Protections and Significant Business Compliance Burdens

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 8/21/2018

On June 28, 2018, the California Legislature unanimously passed, and the Governor immediately signed, a sweeping expansion of data privacy protections for residents of California. Assembly Bill No. 375, entitled the...more

California Passes GDPR-Lite: Strictest Privacy Law in United States

Jackson Walker on 7/11/2018

California recently, and quickly, passed the strictest data privacy law in the land: the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (AB-375). Businesses now have less than 18 months to reassess their consumer privacy policies...more

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