Mariana Oliver, Author at Connect On Tech

In California Privacy Law

The Data Market in California faces another blow as data brokers will be subject to additional obligations under the streamlined deletion mechanism for California consumers

October 16, 2023 by Cynthia Cole, Lothar Determann, Helena Engfeldt, Mariana Oliver, Manisha Reddy, Michelle Shin and Jonathan Tam 3 Mins Read

If you are a data broker or a business that relies on data brokers for targeted advertising, you should be aware that the California Data Broker Law will be significantly changed under the California Delete Act On October 10, 2023, California Governor, Gavin Newsom, signed Senate Bill 362, referred to as the Delete Act, into law. The Delete Act amends existing data broker laws to subject all data brokers to new registration and disclosure requirements…

In Cybersecurity

SEC Adopts Final Cybersecurity Rules

In brief On July 26, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) approved the final rules for Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure (“Final Rules”). As previously reported, the SEC first proposed amendments to its rules on disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident reporting by public companies on March 9, 2022 (“Proposed Rules”). Similar to the Proposed Rules, the Final Rules, broadly speaking, require (i) issuers to make disclosures…

In Data Privacy

Utah Signs Bills Regulating Minors’ Social Media Usage

March 29, 2023 by Elizabeth Roper, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., Mariana Oliver and Avi Toltzis 3 Mins Read

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 Artificial Intelligence

Copyright Office Issues Official Guidance On AI-Generated Works

March 20, 2023 by Adam Aft, Heiko Burow, Mackenzie Martin, Bradford Newman, Mariana Oliver, Avi Toltzis and Joshua Wolkoff 5 Mins Read

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 Cybersecurity

Federal oversight of cyber threats to critical infrastructure continues to gain traction

March 7, 2023 by Rachel Ehlers, Nick Merker, Avi Toltzis and Mariana Oliver 4 Mins Read

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…