PRG News Roundup, November 2, 2022
News FTC brought an action agaisnt Chegg, the education technology provider. Responding to their allegedly lax data security practices, the FTC proposed requiring the company to bolster its data security…
PRG News Roundup, October 26, 2022
News Uber is rolling out a new advertising branch, which will show riders live ads during their ride using data that Uber collects from their phones. A father and son…
PRG News Roundup, October 19, 2022
Events On November 2nd, NYU’s Law will be hosting a panel called “FemTech and Privacy: Striking the Balance in a Post-Dobbs Reality.” The event will take place in the Greenberg…
PRG News Roundup, October 12, 2022
On September 28, the EU Commission published a Proposal for an Artificial Intelligence Liability Directive (AILD, or AI Liability Directive). The purpose of the Directive is to “improve the functioning…
PRG News Roundup, October 5, 2022
Yesterday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released its Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, which aims to embed protections throughout the AI design pipeline. The…
PRG News Roundup, September 28, 2022
Yesterday, the European Commission introduced a proposal for a new AI liability standard. This proposal consolidates the fragmented liability standards in effect in EU member countries. It has specific provisions…
PRG News Roundup, September 21, 2022
Yesterday, after more than a year of deliberation, Indonesia passed a sweeping data privacy law. Following a string of data breaches and leaks at government organizations, lawmakers greatly welcomed the…
PRG News Roundup, September 14, 2022
Google must face most of Texas AG’s antitrust lawsuit, which alleges, among other things, that the company illegally monopolized the advertising technology market. Google won its motion to dismiss an…
PRG News Roundup, April 20, 2022
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held this week that web scraping of publicly accessible data is legal. The case initially arose when LinkedIn sued a company, Hiq Labs, for scraping data…
PRG News Roundup, April 13, 2022
Recently, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a “shields up” message to U.S. organizations, warning of potential cyberattacks relating to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While no definite threats…