Now more than ever, technology is influencing the way we do business, communicate, move through and around the world, access and manage our homes, receive and administer healthcare, make purchases, secure information, and protect our most valuable property. Morrison Foerster keeps pace with this rapidly evolving landscape across our internationally recognized corporate, finance, intellectual property, and litigation practices. MoFo Tech brings together our insights relating to fields such as blockchain and distributed ledger, cloud and as-a-service technologies, driverless cars, drones, fintech, computer hardware and software, the Internet of Things, semiconductors, and telecommunications. The MoFo Tech blog offers real-time, in-depth analyses of the trends and complex issues shaping the global technology industry.<h2>ABOUT MORRISON FOERSTER</h2>Morrison Foerster is a leading global law firm that transforms complexity into advantage for its clients. Our clients include some of the largest financial institutions, banks, consulting and accounting firms, and Fortune 100, technology, and life sciences companies. Highlighting the firm’s commitment to client service, leadership in market-changing deals and impact litigation, and values-based culture, Morrison Foerster has been repeatedly recognized as one of the top 10 firms on The American Lawyer’s A-List. Year after year, the firm receives significant recognition from Chambers and The Legal 500 across their various guides, including Global, USA, Asia‑Pacific, Europe, UK, Latin America, and FinTech Legal. Our lawyers passionately care about delivering legal excellence while living our values. Morrison Foerster has a long-standing commitment to creating a culture that respects and celebrates differences, while providing an inclusive environment. The firm has achieved Mansfield Certification Plus since 2018 as a result of successfully reaching at least 30 percent women, communities of color, and LGBTQ+ lawyer representation in a notable number of current leadership roles and committees. The firm also has a long history of commitment to the community and society through providing pro bono legal services, including litigating for civil rights and civil liberties, improving public education and fostering the wellbeing of children, advocating for veterans, promoting international human rights, enforcing the right to asylum, and safeguarding the environment.

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Scott Llewellyn’s practice focuses on complex litigation in federal and state courts around the country, with an emphasis on patent and trade secret disputes. Over the past decade, he has worked on some of the most significant, high–profile IP cases involving technology for televisions, smartphones, and self–driving cars, relying on 40 years of experience with computer hardware and software. Scott also has significant experience with business divorce cases before courts and arbitrators, involving a mix of trade secret, patent, tort, and contract claims relating to technology development and implementation.Scott also has successfully tried general commercial arbitration and agency matters, briefed and argued various appeals in federal appellate court, and tried more than 20 cases for the Denver City Attorney’s office, most of them jury trials.Scott also has an active pro bono practice, having worked on a variety of criminal and immigration appeals, and having represented Colorado criminal defense and mental health organizations in high–profile suits against the state of Colorado for violations of the constitutional rights of defendants.At MoFo, Scott serves on the board of the Morrison & Foerster Foundation. In the broader legal community, he serves on the boards of the Colorado Lawyers Committee and Drop in the Bucket (a charity that builds wells and sanitation systems in sub–Saharan Africa).After law school, Scott clerked for the Honorable Clarence A. Brimmer, District of Wyoming, and the Honorable Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Ninth Circuit. He was also previously an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.

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Scott Llewellyn’s practice involves complex litigation before state and federal courts around the country, with an emphasis on patent and trade secret disputes for high-tech companies, to which he brings more than 35 years of experience with computer hardware and software, in particular relating to the processing and transmission of audio, video, voice, and other types of data. Mr. Llewellyn has also tried commercial arbitration and agency matters; briefed and argued various appeals in federal appellate court; and tried more than 20 cases for the Denver city attorney’s office, most of them jury trials.

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When Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1906 and Senate Bill 327 into law on Friday, California took major strides toward regulating the Internet of Things, the network of internet‑connected devices that includes everything from televisions and cars, to refrigerators, fitness trackers, and baby monitors. As of January 1, 2020, “reasonable security feature[s]” must be included in all “connected devices” sold or offered for sale in California, specifically those devices capable of connecting directly or indirectly to the internet and that have an IP or Bluetooth address.Read our <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/gJ6YCG6QzAU9WPplfpXwMW">client alert</a>.

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New California IoT Law Requires Security for Connected Devices

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When Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1906 and Senate Bill 327 into law on Friday, California took major strides toward regulating the Internet of Thin

New California IoT Law Requires Security for Connected Devices

The extent and stringency of the legal requirements that the U.S. government should impose on companies that produce internet-connected products will be the subject of a public hearing that Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is holding on May 16, 2018.Informed by data from regulators, standards organizations, and business and consumer advocates, the hearing will explore Internet of Things (IoT) devices’ potential to cause physical harm as a result of the way they exist at the point of purchase or after they’ve been corrupted as a result of being “connected to a network through malicious, incorrect, or careless changes to operational code.” Find out which hot-button issues the CSPC has decided to exclude from the hearing’s discussions. Read MoFo’s litigation department’s <a href="https://classdismissed.mofo.com/consumer-products/cpsc-will-sharpen-its-focus-on-iot-in-upcoming-public-hearing-about-internet-connected-devices/">blog post</a>.

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Erin Bosman is chair of MoFo’s Class Actions and Mass Torts Practice Group and is a founder and co-head of the Artificial Intelligence Group. Clients value her business strategy, seeking her comprehensive counsel throughout the product life cycle, especially in high-stakes litigation and product recalls.

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Erin Bosman is chair of MoFo’s Class Actions and Mass Torts Practice Group and is a founder and co-head of the Artificial Intelligence Group. Clients value her business strategy, seeking her comprehensive counsel throughout the product life cycle, especially in high-stakes litigation and product recalls.

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Julie Park provides analytic and strategic counsel for issues in product life cycle, product liability and defective products, consumer class actions, and more.

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Julie Park protects her clients’ products no matter what kind of product issue they face—whether it is planning for new product development, recalling an existing product, or defending clients against product liability or consumer class actions. Drawing on her deep technical and legal expertise, Julie counsels clients on consumer product safety regulation and pharmaceutical and medical device preemption while also managing complex and multijurisdictional litigation both in state and federal court.

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CPSC Will Sharpen Its Focus on IoT in Upcoming Public Hearing About Internet-Connected Devices

The extent and stringency of the legal requirements that the U.S. government should impose on companies that produce internet-connected products will be the sub

CPSC Will Sharpen Its Focus on IoT in Upcoming Public Hearing About Internet-Connected Devices

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 workplace.Companies investing in Industrial IoT (IIoT) technologies should therefore be aware of potential legal-privacy risks. Even if it’s not their primary function, many IIoT applications could be used to monitor employees in unintended ways. Use of such data, if not obtained properly, could damage a company’s reputation or place it in a defensive position in litigation.While it is inevitable that employers will seek to use IoT data to better manage their employees, inventory, and equipment, they will need to guard against inappropriate or unlawful uses of this data.Unfortunately, a myth persists that an employee’s privacy rights end the moment he or she walks through an employer’s door. To reduce the risk of employee claims and reputational harm, companies should keep a few best practices in mind:<ul><li>Give proper notice to employees;</li><li>Be thoughtful about what you collect and collect only what you need; and</li><li>Be thoughtful about how long you maintain the data,</li></ul>Read the full <a href="http://www.informationweek.com/big-data/the-unblinking-eye-employee-monitoring-in-the-iot-era-/a/d-id/1327777?_mc=RSS_IWK_EDT" target="_blank">article</a>.

The Unblinking Eye: Employee Monitoring in the IoT Era

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 

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, 2016, in Austin, Texas.NTIA believes that, in order for the potential of the IoT to be realized, users of IoT devices “need reasonable assurance that connected devices, embedded systems, and their applications will be secure.” NTIA notes that “[a] key part of that security is the mitigation of potential security vulnerabilities in IoT devices or applications through patching and security upgrades.”NTIA’s view, such a marketplace requires a common language and standardized definitions across the ecosystem so that consumers will understand the security features of IoT devices and so that those devices can receive security upgrades in the same fashion that regular updates to applications and operating systems are currently facilitated using visible reminders and automated updates. The intention is that this multistakeholder process will ultimately yield shared definitions and strategies for communications to consumers regarding the security features of their IoT devices.

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Recognized as an authority on financial privacy issues, Nathan helps financial institutions and other companies develop practical solutions for complying with privacy and data security laws. In partic

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NTIA Announces New Multistakeholder Process for IOT Security Issues

NTIA Announces New Multistakeholder Process for IOT Security Issues

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On September 19, 2016, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the initiation of a mu