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The Vinson & Elkins team will provide an overview of Antitrust issues within the Technology Industry.

On September 12, 2023, Delaware governor John Carney signed the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (the “DPDPA” or the “Act”) into law.

In advance of its September 8, 2023 board meeting, the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”), the state’s privacy regulatory body, has unveiled draft regulations that could significantly impact cybersecurity protocols, artificial intelligence (“AI”), and automated decision-making practices.

In a move to address the implications of integrating emerging technologies into the financial markets, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) recently proposed new rules aimed at regulating potential conflicts of interest created through the use of “covered technology”—a broad category that potentially includes everything from computational algorithms to artificial intelligence.

On July 23, 2023, the Biden administration announced that seven AI companies have made voluntary commitments to adopt measures to develop safer AI technology.

On July 10, 2023, the European Commission adopted an adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

The Vinson & Elkins team provided an overview of SAFE investments. 

It’s an ever-present threat in our digital world: You get sued, and the case involves your software, website, and/or customer data. The first step in any filed or threatened litigation is to implement a litigation hold to satisfy your preservation obligations. But what do you do?

The difficulty of handling privilege disputes can be especially pronounced in cases involving a prolonged discovery period and large corporate defendants with different document custodians.

Companies rely and track granular and constantly updated data sets every day. But what do you do when you need to preserve, review, and produce that “dynamic data” in discovery?

The European Union’s (“EU”) Data Protection Commission (the “Commission”) recently fined Meta Ireland $1.3 billion (or €1.2 billion) for improper data transfers from the European Economic Area (“EEA”) to the United States in violation of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

In this Technology Series webinar, the V&E team discussed the current and future impact and implications of the Video Privacy Protection Act.