Facebook, Patents, and Privacy: Social Media Innovations to Mine Personal Data
Social Media Patents & Privacy Data [©2016. Published in GPSOLO, Vol. 37, No. 5, September/October 2020, by the American Bar Association. Reproduced with permission. All rights reserved. This information or any portion thereof may not be copied or disseminated in any form or by any means or stored in an electronic database or retrieval system without the express written consent of the American Bar Association or the copyright holder] * Updated November 25 to include references to CPRA/...
Metaverse Law to Speak at PCI Expert Summit
Metaverse Law will be speaking at the PCI Expert Summit hosted by RSI Security. This year, the annual PCI Expert Summit event is an online/virtual all-day conference on Thursday, November 5, 2020, from 9:00am to 5:00pm PST. The agenda includes panels with PCI experts in addition to breakout sessions on specialized topics, such as incident and data breach response. Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits are available. Register at https://www.rsisecurity.com/pciexpertsummit/....
What Businesses Need to Know if Voters Pass Proposition 24 (California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, “CPRA”)
Hot on the heels of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California residents this November will vote on Proposition 24. A majority yes vote on Prop 24 would pass the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). The CPRA proposes several amendments to the CCPA, such as granting new rights to consumers, imposing greater penalties on businesses for certain violations, and creating a new state enforcement agency, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA). 1. Right to Restrict Use of Sensit...
Schrems II: No Privacy Shield for EU-US Data Transfers, but Don’t Put Your Eggs into Standard Contractual Clauses Either
Image Credit: Capri23auto from Pixabay On July 16th, 2020, privacy professionals scrambled after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down its decision in Schrems II. The ruling invalidated the US-EU Privacy Shield agreement, which authorized transfers of data from the EU to the US for Privacy Shield-certified companies. Though the ruling on Privacy Shield was unexpected given that it was not directly at issue, such a decision is not without precedent or historical pattern...
China’s 2020 Cryptography Law in the Context of China’s Burgeoning Data Privacy and Security Regime
[Originally published as a Feature Article: China’s 2020 Cryptography Law in the Context of China’s Burgeoning Data Privacy and Security Regime, by Carolyn K. Luong, in Orange County Lawyer Magazine, April 2020, Vol. 62 No.4, page 31.] By Carolyn Luong U.S.-China relations have been a trending topic throughout the past year due to several conflicts involving the alleged encroachment upon free speech principles and perceived threats to U.S. national security. The NBA and Activision-Blizzard...
Should Bar Associations Vet Technology Service Providers for Attorneys?
[Originally published in GPSOLO, Vol. 36, No. 6, November/December 2019, by the American Bar Association. Reproduced with permission. All rights reserved.] Image Credit: Gerd Altmann from Pixabay1 Bar associations across the country have similar goals: advance the rule of law, serve the legal profession, and promote equal access to justice. Technology can easily support these goals. From online research and billing software, to virtual receptionist and SEO services, technology vendors impr...
Metaverse Law to Speak at WSJ Cybersecurity Symposium
Metaverse Law will be one of the speakers at the Wall Street Journal's Cybersecurity Symposium and will focus on the applicable laws and regulations per business type. It is a two day event in San Diego, CA from Thursday, January 9 to Friday January 10, 2020. The agenda for both days includes breakfast and registration, several speakers, networking breaks, lunch, a cocktail reception on the ninth, and a cybersecurity strategy development bootcamp on the tenth. A detailed itinerary as well...
What Is Happening in Children’s Online Privacy?
Children’s online privacy has always been an important topic, but a number of recent developments around the world have many businesses taking it more seriously. In September, Google agreed to pay a record $170 million fine to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by illegally collecting personal information from children without parental consent and using it to profit through targeted ads. A few weeks later, China’s own version...