United States: Privacy Protection

AI-enabled smart glasses and wearable devices are rapidly moving from experimental technology to everyday consumer products, raising critical questions about ambient surveillance, data collection, and architectural privacy failures.

South Carolina is one of many states that have passed laws similar to the UK’s age-appropriate design code. Like others, the law is intended to regulate design features viewed as harmful to children.

California and the EU’s frameworks for protecting personal information and assessing related high-risk practices raise compliance complexity for employers. In this episode...

The most consequential risks in SaaS agreements rarely appear in headline provisions. Instead, they are embedded in data usage or service improvement clauses, where vendors are often granted broad rights to use customer data.

Companies are engaging systems integrators to design, build, and operate agentic artificial intelligence solutions.

A California federal court recently dismissed wiretapping claims against AutoNation, ruling that the defendant lacked sufficient connection to California to establish personal jurisdiction.

Connecticut’s Governor has signed into law Public Act No. 26-64, “An Act Concerning Consumer Privacy and Protection,” which introduces substantial new compliance obligations for businesses that operate as data brokers...

California Governor Gavin Newsom has issued Executive Order N-6-26 directing state agencies to analyze AI's workforce impact and prepare for economic disruption, with reports due by August 2026. The order mandates review of California's WARN Act, collective bargaining practices, and workforce training programs, while establishing a public data dashboard tracking AI's sectoral employment effects. Employers face heightened legal exposure as the state prepares to publish findings on AI's demographic disparities...

Government contractors face mounting legal challenges as plaintiffs leverage decades-old state wiretap laws to target modern website technologies like cookies and analytics tools. With thousands of data privacy cases flooding federal courts and novel legal theories emerging around routine online business practices, contractors must understand their exposure under laws like California's CIPA and Florida's FSCA.