On May 11, 2023, the governor of Tennessee signed the Tennessee Information Protection Act (“TIPA”), assigned Public Chapter Number 408, into law. TIPA takes effect on July 1, 2025. In this article, we highlight five key points of the new law.
In Brief In April 2023, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed into law SB 396, the Social Media Safety Act (the “Act”). Arkansas is the second state to enact a law that specifically regulates minors’ social media use, following Utah’s recent social media legislation. The Act, which takes effect on September 1, 2023, requires social media platforms (as defined under the Act) to verify account holders ages in order to prohibit Arkansas residents younger than…
In Brief On Thursday March 23, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed two bills — S.B. 152 and H.B. 311 (collectively, the “Utah Social Media Regulation Act”) —that impose new requirements and limitations on children’s use of social media platforms. Background Together, both S.B. 152 and H.B. 311 enact the Utah Social Media Regulation Act, which is set to go into effect on March 1, 2024. Once in effect, S.B. 152 will require social media platforms…
In Brief On March 15, 2023, the US Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) proposed amendments to Regulation S-P (“Reg S-P”). If adopted, the amendments would introduce new data security and governance requirements for broker-dealers, investment companies, and investment advisers registered with the SEC. Background When the SEC first promulgated Regulation S-P in 2000, the goal was to ensure that covered entities establish adequate safeguards to protect customer information. The existing version consists essentially of two cornerstone…
In Brief Recent developments in AI technologies have led to the increased use of AI to create a range of works, such as art, music, stories, and even lines of software code, in response to human inputs. This has resulted in an uptick of copyright applications filed with the U.S. Copyright Office (the “Office”) seeking registrations for works with varying degrees of contributions from generative AI tools. This calls into question whether, and to what…
In brief Critical infrastructure has been the focus of several recent US cyber readiness initiatives, although the results have left a patchwork of regulations that may be enforced differently across sectors and federal agencies. As an example, in March 2022, President Biden signed into law the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (“CIRCIA”), which will require critical infrastructure organizations to report cyber incidents and ransom payments to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure…
In Brief On February 24, 2023, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) released the final version of the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) and SCC Measures for the cross-border transfer of personal data under the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). The SCCs provide a mechanism for businesses to transfer personal information from mainland China to other jurisdictions. China’s SCCs closely mirror the EU’s SCCs, which were updated in 2021, but feature several important distinctions described in…
Whether an AI system can be an inventor is a topical issue in patent law throughout the world. Our summary table of recent judgments in Australia, the UK and the US highlights the similarities and differences in how these jurisdictions have so far dealt with the issue. While a final resolution on AI inventorship is not expected for some time, the differing perspectives of the courts provide a useful study in the arguments for and…