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 workplace.

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,