New U.S. State Privacy Laws in the Pipeline for 2024
In an era defined by rapid digital evolution, U.S. states are ramping up their efforts to protect citizens’ personal information. In 2023, data privacy laws in Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, and Utah took effect, and many...
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US-China Crisis Scenario: Are Russia Sanctions a Model for China?
Sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine raise the question of whether similar measures might be implemented against China in the event of a crisis scenario between the US and China. However, the significant...
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US Restrictions on Outbound Foreign Investment
On August 9, 2023, President Joe Biden issued a highly anticipated Executive Order on Addressing United States Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern (the “Executive Order”). The Executive Order...
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FTC Calls on Game Industry to Level Up COPPA Compliance
On June 5, 2023, technology giant Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”) settled with the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) for a staggering US$20 million over violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). The settlement stems...
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SEC Deems 23 More Tokens Securities
In three complaints against the US’s most prominent digital asset trading platforms, Binance, Coinbase, and Bittrex, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) alleged that 23 unique digital assets are securities, consisting of SOL,...
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America’s New Beneficial Ownership Reporting Regime
On January 1, 2021, Congress enacted the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (the “AMLA”) to combat money laundering and terrorist financing by expanding the regulatory power of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”), a financial...
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Legal Considerations for Generative AI in Games
On January 5, 2021, OpenAI launched DALL-E, a neural network trained on 250 million captioned images collected from the internet that could generate images based on natural language prompts. Since then, OpenAI has introduced DALL-E...
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FTC Proposes Ban on Non-Competes
On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to prohibit employers from using contractual terms with workers that prevent such workers from seeking or accepting employment from another employer...
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Mobile Platform Rules on Blockchain Games Remain Unclear Despite Updates – But Popular Mobile Blockchain Games Provide Clarity
Apple Inc. (“Apple”) and Google LLC (“Google”) dominate the global game market by offering the most used app stores in the world. However, Apple and Google’s developer rules require user transactions to occur within their...
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