Effective September 12, 2025, the EU Data Act introduced new rules on access to and sharing of data from certain products and services in business-to-consumer (B2C), business-to-business (B2B), and business-to-government (B2G) contexts. This alert highlights the key obligations. The EU Data Act applies to any business offering products or services in the EU, regardless of its location.Continue Reading EU Data Act Enters into Force
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State AGs Unveil Investigation Sweep Targeting Businesses Ignoring Consumer Opt-Out Signals
On September 9, 2025, the attorneys general of California, Colorado, and Connecticut and the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced a joint investigative sweep of potential failures by businesses to honor consumers’ rights to opt…
Continue Reading State AGs Unveil Investigation Sweep Targeting Businesses Ignoring Consumer Opt-Out SignalsU.S. Federal Court Allows CIPA Class Action Against AI Customer Service Provider to Proceed
On August 11, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied a motion to dismiss a California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) class action lawsuit filed against ConverseNow Technologies, Inc. ConverseNow…
Continue Reading U.S. Federal Court Allows CIPA Class Action Against AI Customer Service Provider to ProceedEU Court Upholds the Validity of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework
On September 3, 2025, the EU General Court (the General Court) (the second-highest court in the European Union (EU)) upheld the validity of EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) in Philippe Latombe v European Commission (T-553/23).…
Continue Reading EU Court Upholds the Validity of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy FrameworkWhite House Releases America’s AI Action Plan
On July 23, 2025, the White House announced its long-awaited comprehensive AI Action Plan titled “Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan” (the Plan). The Plan is aimed at positioning the U.S. as the global leader in AI and is a follow up to President Donald Trump’s January 23, 2025, Executive Order on “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence,” which revoked the Biden Administration’s prior AI Executive Order (Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence). The AI Action Plan contains more than 90 policy actions related to three key pillars: 1) Accelerating AI Innovation, 2) Building American AI Infrastructure, and 3) Leading in International AI Diplomacy and Security. This alert touches on all three pillars with a focus on the first, which outlines the Trump Administration’s strategic vision and policy recommendations to drive innovation in the American AI sector.Continue Reading White House Releases America’s AI Action Plan
EU Reaches a Deal on Rules for Swifter Cross-Border GDPR Enforcement
On June 16, 2025, the Council of the EU (Council) and the European Parliament (EP) reached a provisional agreement on a new regulation (the Draft Regulation) to enhance enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation…
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