Technology & Intellectual Property Update

In what may be the “new normal” in the post-Chevron regulatory environment, a lawsuit has been filed against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the “CFPB”) to set aside the CFPB’s interpretive rule governing “buy now, pay later” (“BNPL”) products. The BNPL rule, which was issued by the CFPB on May […]

Google recently announced important updates for three of its advertising programs (AdSense, AdMob, and Ad Manager) to address compliance with state data privacy legislation in Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska, New Hampshire, and New Jersey, each of which come into effect in January 2025. Beginning on November 15, 2024, restricted data processing […]

On September 28, 2024, Governor Newsome signed a number of bills concerning artificial intelligence (AI) into law.  Among those laws were two particularly affect the right to privacy as it applies to AI. AB 1008[1] (Personal Information and AI Systems – effective January 1, 2025) This bill amended the California Consumer […]

In mid-September 2024, Instagram announced major changes to its privacy measures for users of the social media platform that are 17 and under. With recent focus on children’s privacy online, including the suit brought by attorneys general last year against Meta, Instagram has seemingly responded to these pressures with this […]

One of the largest threats over the past several years according to the FBI has been the threat of a scheme known as “pig butchering.”[1] Pig butchering describes an online scam that started as a romance scam, an investment scam, a cryptocurrency scam, or one of many other scams, but […]