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Illumination Zone: Tom Kemp, Author of the new award winning book “Containing Big Tech: How to Protect our Civil Rights, Economy and Democracy” sits down with Kaylee & Mary to talk all things big data, GenAI, big tech, data brokers, sloshing data, privacy and cyber. An entrepreneur, technologist, policy advisor and investor, Tom led initiatives…

CYBERSECURITY – CISA Issues Four More Industrial Control Systems Advisories – On August 22, 2023, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued four more advisories related to industrial control systems. The advisories are applicable to four different industrial control products, explain the risk of the vulnerability (e.g., “successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow…

On August 24, 2023, twelve international data protection and privacy regulators from the Americas, Europe, Africa, and APAC announced their “global expectations of social media platforms and other sites to safeguard against unlawful data scraping”. This appears to be in response to the increasing use of data scraping technologies and reiterates guidance previously provided by…

INCEPT LLC v. PALETTE LIFE SCIENCES, INC. Before Newman, Schall, and Taranto.  Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: No teaching away when art does not disparage invention and free samples cannot count as commercial success….By: Knobbe Martens

Earlier this month, the Commissioner of Data Protection of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), a financial free-zone in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), issued the first adequacy decision regarding the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which recognizes the CCPA as an equivalent to the DIFC Data Protection Law (DIFC Law No. 5 of 2020, as amended…

On August 23, 2023, Data Media Associates, LLC (“DMA”) filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Maine after discovering that an unauthorized party was able to access confidential consumer information stored on a third-party software platform called MOVEit. In this notice, DMA explains that the incident resulted in an unauthorized party…

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California – In this asbestos action, decedent Dennis Freeman worked as an insulation contractor at shipyards in several states, including California, from approximately 1980 into the mid-1990s. Several defendants moved to dismiss certain claims in the plaintiffs’ complaint, as well as moved to dismiss the plaintiffs’ complaint…

In this latest installment of our ongoing consumer privacy series, we focus on potential digital and offline accessibility requirements in the context of the wave of new U.S. state consumer privacy laws. In the continued absence of a comprehensive federal privacy law, a wave of new state privacy laws is filling the gap……By: Pierce Atwood…