Metaverse Law to Speak at Artificial Intelligence Los Angeles Seminar
Metaverse Law will be one of the speakers at the AI LA Community's seminar focused on cyber security and privacy. The seminar will be held at The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator in West Hollywood on Thursday, November 21st. The event is from 6:30PM to 10:00PM and includes networking, a panel of speakers followed by a Q&A, and concludes with another round of networking. Tickets and further event details can be found at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-cybersecurity-and-privacy-tickets-802041...
Metaverse Law to Speak at Postal Customer Council Lunch and Learn
Metaverse Law will be giving a zip talk and participating in a Q&A panel on Thursday, November 14 at the Phoenix Club in Anaheim, CA about Data Protection and Cyber Security. The event itinerary includes registration at 11:00AM - 11:45AM, followed by lunch and a seminar which conclude at 1:30PM. Registration details can be found at http://www.socalpcc.org/lock-it-or-lose-it.html....
Website Accessibility for Privacy Policies – California Consumer Privacy Act Regulations
Image Credit: Gordon Johnson from Pixabay On October 10, the California Attorney General released proposed guidelines to implement the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), which goes into effect in January 2020. One of the provisions that surprised many was a new requirement that privacy notices given to consumers “[b]e accessible to consumers with disabilities” and “[a]t a minimum, provide information on how a consumer with a disability may access the notice in an a...
Cybersecurity Ignorance is No Excuse for Tax Professionals
Image Credit: Pete Linforth from Pixabay Co-authored with Lily Li and Kenny Kang. Mr. Kang is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Charted Global Management Accountant (CGMA), and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) with a wealth of experience in public accounting and industry. CPAs and other tax professionals collect their client's crown jewels: sensitive financial data. This makes them prime targets for cybercriminals. For hackers looking to make a quick buck, or engage in more soph...
Women in Cybersecurity – Metaverse Law Interviews Malia Mason
Image Credit: Pete Linforth from Pixabay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcnL5z4Kl2U Metaverse Law recently interviewed Malia Mason, co-founder and president of the Southern California Chapter of Women in CyberSecurity, Navy veteran, and business owner. A transcript of the conversation is available below: Lily Li: Women make up only 15% of today's cyber security workforce. Today, I have brought my good friend, Malia Mason, who's trying to get that number to 50%. Mali...
California Attorney General Releases Proposed CCPA Regulations
Image Credit: 3D Animation Production Company from Pixabay California Attorney Xavier Becerra unveiled highly-awaited regulations on October 10, 2019 to enforce the California Consumer Privacy Act, a sweeping new privacy law set to take effect on January 1, 2020. The text of the CCPA proposed regulation is available here. As a few highlights, the proposed regulation: Defines "categories of sources" and "categories of third parties" to include consumer data resellers, among other types...
Will the CCPA and Other State Privacy Laws Face Constitutional Attack?
Image Credit: Pettycon from Pixabay This article is Part 2 of 3 in a series exploring proposed federal privacy laws and constitutional concerns of privacy laws in the United States. Part 3 will discuss the constitutional challenges facing a proposed federal privacy law. In the first part of this series, we examined several federal privacy bills proposed this year, as Congress eagerly tries to pass a single harmonizing federal law. The issue of preemption continues to divide Republica...
Searching for the One Ring to Rule Them All: A Look at 8 U.S. Federal Privacy Bills
Image Credit: 3D Animation Production Company from Pixabay This article is Part 1 of 2 in a series exploring proposed federal privacy laws in the United States. Part 2 will discuss the constitutional challenges facing not only a proposed federal privacy law but those facing existing state privacy laws as well. As predicted in our Privacy Law Forecast for 2019, legislators have raced to introduce national privacy regulation in both the House and Senate this year. In contrast to the Eur...