This quarterly update highlights key legislative, regulatory, and litigation developments in the second quarter of 2024 related to artificial intelligence (“AI”), connected and automated vehicles (“CAVs”), and data privacy and cybersecurity.
Hundreds of lawsuits have accused businesses of using website analytics tools to “wiretap” their customers’ interactions with their website, but these lawsuits often overlook a basic pleading requirement of any wiretapping claim: the collection of a “communication.” A California federal judge last week added teeth to this requirement, dismissing a wiretapping lawsuit filed against Great
On Thursday, July 25, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing new requirements for radio and television broadcasters and certain other licensees that air political ads containing content created using artificial intelligence (AI). The NPRM was approved on a 3-2 party-line vote and comes in the wake of an
Earlier this month, the FAR Council took action to extend its existing authority to collect information from government contractors for novation requests with a notice in the Federal Register. While this was a routine action, it is a reminder that the novation process is in need of serious attention. The notice addresses prior public comments
On July 24, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit struck down the Federal Universal Service Fund (USF) in Consumers’ Research et al. v. FCC. In a 9-7 en banc decision, the majority reversed an earlier decision by a three-judge panel and held that the program created by the Federal Communications Commission
A recent Seventh Circuit decision, Wallrich v. Samsung Elecs. Am., Inc., — F.4th —-, 2024 WL 3249646 (7th Cir. July 1, 2024), will be of interest to companies facing mass arbitration demands.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) yesterday, July 23, initiated procedural steps that will likely lead to swift Senate passage of the Kids Online Safety Act (“KOSA”) and the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA 2.0”). Both bills have been under consideration in the Senate and the House of Representatives for some
China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) released the new draft Food Labeling Supervision and Administrative Measures (the “Draft Measures”) for comment on June 28, 2024. The last draft food labeling measures were publicly released in 2020, but were never finalized. The Draft Measures provide requirements on font, size, manufacture date, and net
Whether a class representative has actually been injured can determine the suitability of class certification, as a class with an uninjured representative will not be certified. But as illustrated by the First Circuit in Nightingale v. National Grid USA Service Company, — F.4th —-, 2024 WL 3337766 (1st Cir. July 9, 2024), when class certification
On 18 July 2024, the current President of the European Commission (“Commission”), Ursula von der Leyen, was reconfirmed by the European Parliament for a second 5-year term. As part of her reconfirmation, President von der Leyen delivered a speech before the European Parliament, complemented by a 30-page program, which lays down the Commission’s political