MoFo Tech brings together legal insights and in-depth analyses on trends and complex issues shaping the global technology industry, covering fields such as blockchain and distributed ledger, cloud and SaaS technologies, driverless cars, drones, FinTech, computer hardware and software, the IoT, semiconductors, and telecommunications.
“A potential patent war looms over the blockchain,” according to a January 2017 piece in The Economist. That fight over patent rights to aspects of blockchain technology is a sign of the blockchain’s potential, according to Morrison & Foerster intellectual property partner Colette Reiner …›
Navigating privacy laws is particularly challenging for multinational companies with affiliates in the European Economic Area (EEA) that share personal information with service providers outside the EEA. All EEA member countries impose restrictions on the sharing of personal information outside the EEA because their …›
Privacy concerns raised by the Internet of Things (IoT) have focused mostly on the consumer, whose personal data is captured in a growing list of places. Less attention has been paid to the privacy of employees interacting with increasingly prevalent IoT in the …›
On October 27, 2016, The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted rules requiring internet service providers (ISPs) to give consumers more control over the use of their web browsing and other information by requiring ISPs to obtain opt-in consent to use customers’ web browsing history …›
The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) is continuing to adapt and plans to enforce its self-regulatory principles for interest-based advertising technologies. Enforcement of its cross-device tracking principles will begin February 1, 2017. Cross-device tracking entails ascertaining via deterministic identifiers or inference when multiple devices are …›
On September 19, 2016, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the initiation of a multistakeholder process on security upgradability and patching relating to the IOT. The first meeting about this process will occur on October 19, …›
MoFo Tech brings together legal insights and in-depth analyses on trends and complex issues shaping the global technology industry, covering fields such as blockchain and distributed ledger, cloud and SaaS technologies, driverless cars, drones, FinTech, computer hardware and software, the IoT, semiconductors, and telecommunications. …›