Category: Insights

The American Privacy Rights Act (“APRA”) is the most recent effort by Congress to create a comprehensive consumer privacy law. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) introduced the bill in April, and the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Data, Innovation and Commerce unanimously approved an updated draft […]

Posthumous art, defined as works created from an artist’s original molds, negatives or plans after an artist’s death, has always been subject to legal and ethical debate. Now, the debate has been reignited by artificial intelligence (“AI”), which generates new content in an artist’s style and may replicate an artist’s voice, image and likeness. The […]

Facial recognition technology (FRT), which measures an individual’s face to automate identity verification, dates back to the 1850s, when England introduced prison photography to track escaped prisoners. Now, sophisticated forms of FRT are used to unlock cellphones via facial identification features, by TSA agents to screen travelers and for policing sports stadiums and casinos. Outside the […]

Advancements in deepfake artificial intelligence (“AI”) are increasingly being used to swap faces from an image or video, manipulate facial expressions and synthesize faces or speech. However, these replicas of the voice, image or likeness of individuals raise growing concerns as to the patchwork of right-of-publicity laws and the need for a national framework to […]

We’ve all heard about cookies and clicked through the banners and online pop-ups addressing the use of cookies, but their actual purpose and the rules that govern their use are not commonly understood either by website owners or their visitors. With the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”), the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), the […]