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[] To ensure delivery to your mailbox please add domain @lexology.com to your safe senders list [View in Browser]( [Lexology]( [My Account]( | [About]( | [Search Archive (1,131,726 articles)]( [North America](#northamerica) | [Global](#global) General News [Have your say about our Q&A tool]( If you use Lexology Getting the Deal Through (GTDT), our global comparative tool of domestic laws and regulations, we're keen to hear how we can make more it useful to you in your professional life. Please take our our five-minute survey on how we could evolve and improve GTDT, and you will be entered into a draw to win an iPad. [Click here]( [USA] [North America] Internet & Social Media #top [Data protection: Key compliance updates (25 – 31 May)]( PRO Analysis Lexology PRO A look at GDPR three years on, the EU’s new regulation on AI and guidelines on social media, the Biden administration’s improvements to cybersecurity,... 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[Protecting the Data that Fuels AI]( Oblon Recently, I had the privilege of participating in a couple of virtual conferences as a panelist on issues related to artificial intelligence (AI) and… [Sweeping Changes Proposed to the DMCA’s Notice-and-Takedown System]( Fenwick & West LLP On December 22, 2020, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), then chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, released a discussion… [Financial Daily Dose 5.27.2021 | Top Story: Shareholder Action and Court Rulings Push Big Oil to Confront Climate Change]( Robins Kaplan LLP Huge win yesterday for climate change activists who dealt ExxonMobil leadership a "stunning defeat" when shareholders "elected at least two board… [Top Esports Deals and Investments in 2020 and 2021]( Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the eSports community has witnessed an explosive year of investment growth in 2020 and early 2021. Here is a brief… [Overbuilders and a bias for fiber: broadband proposals in American Jobs Plan face a tough fight ahead]( Hogan Lovells Democrats and Republicans are at odds over the American Jobs Plan’s goals for broadband infrastructure as it faces a tough fight ahead. President… [ADA “Website Accessibility” Lawsuits Target Online Retailers and Wholesalers]( Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP If your agricultural business operates a retail or wholesale website, you could be susceptible to the recent wave of “website accessibility” class… [FCC Announces New Efforts to Block “Insecure Devices” from the U.S. Market]( Covington & Burling LLP Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has announced that at its next monthly public meeting on June 17, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”)… [Facebook Changed Nothing?: Court Holds that Facebook Ruling Does not Alter pre-Existing Framework on Text Messages]( Squire Patton Boggs After a few sleepy weeks in TCPAWorld developments are now pouring in. (And of course they are because its the Friday before a long weekend.) As I… [High Court Delivers Ruling in Facebook Data Transfer Case]( William Fry On 14 May 2021, the High Court delivered its ruling in the latest Schrems-related action in which Facebook challenged the legality of the Data… [Patenting Software-Related Inventions Is Getting Easier]( Hickman Becker Bingham Ledesma LLP The U.S. Supreme Court's 2014 decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank[1] set a high bar for establishing patent eligibility of software-related… [Are takedowns the most effective solution to tackling online threats?]( World Trademark Review When it comes to infringement in the online space, brand owners have a multiplicity of actions at their disposal. If the domain name infringes on a… [Controversy over Online Country of Origin Labeling]( Keller and Heckman LLP Online retailers and other large manufacturers are voicing their opposition to proposed Senate legislation that would require country-of-origin… [NFTs Launch, Regulators Target Crypto Ads and Scams, Nebraska Passes Digital Asset Bank Charter, Reports Detail Crypto Hedge Funds and Sanctions Evasion]( Baker & Hostetler LLP Blockchain-based trading platform tZERO recently announced an agreement with an energy projects funding platform to digitize approximatel… [SSL Certificates: Watch out for renewals]( IP Twins Microsoft’s IT managers faced a new cybersecurity issue… [Washington D.C. Files Anti-Trust Lawsuit Against Amazon.com]( Washington Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz The Attorney General of the District of Columbia (DC) in the United States is taking legal action against Amazon.com alleging violation of DC’s local… [Privacy group challenges website cookie use]( Ropes & Gray LLP Max Schrems, the renowned privacy activist, is making headlines again. In recent days the privacy group Noyb (an abbreviation standing for “none of… [Facebook Update: Barnett is a TCPA Big Win-but let’s Take it Slow Folks]( North Carolina Squire Patton Boggs As the Earl reported today, a court in North Carolina delivered a big win to a home town bank and a popular predictive dialer platform on ATDS issues… [Episode 364: does good ransomware policy have to be boring?]( Audio Steptoe & Johnson LLP We don’t get far into my interview with the authors of a widely publicized Ransomware Task Force report, before I object that most of its… [What's New in 5G - June 2021]( Mintz The next-generation of wireless technologies - known as 5G - is here. Not only is it expected to offer network speeds that are up to 100 times faster… [Everyone’s a Critic: Copyright Considerations for YouTube and Twitch Reaction Videos (Part I)]( Fasken A few months ago, my colleague Jay Kerr-Wilson published this blog post on the intellectual property issues surrounding the phenomenon of “Let’s… [Tech & Telecom Weekly Newsletter - June 1, 2021]( Potomac Law Group PLLC Welcome to the Tech & Telecom Weekly, an e-newsletter keeping you apprised of the latest developments in the telecommunications and high-tech… [Global] Internet & Social Media #top [An Update on India’s Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021]( Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA) On February 25, 2021, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of India notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines… [Anchovy News, May 2021]( Hogan Lovells This is the May edition of Anchovy News. Here you will find articles concerning ICANN, the domain name industry and the recuperation of domain names… Event notice [Advertising in the Virtual World]( McMillan LLP Online, 17 June 2021 Other top stories [Virtual Assets and Sanctions: What Businesses Need to Know]( [New York City’s New Biometric Privacy Law Goes Into Effect July 9, 2021]( [New Privacy Bill Provides Opt-Out Rights and New Data Security Requirements]( [Federal Bank Regulators Move to Provide Further Guidance on Digital Asset Activities]( [Is New York Next? A Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Bill Reintroduced]( [Supreme Court Expands Upon Software Fair Use in Google v. 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