Nur Lalji

Law across the wire and into the cloud

The Supreme Court’s July 6th decision in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc. quickly dashed hopes that the sea of litigation centered around the Telephone Consumer Privacy Act (“TCPA”) would come to an end. The TCPA provides consumers with certain protections against unsolicited calls and texts. Among other ... Read More

A recent District Court decision has called into question the enforceability of mandatory arbitration clauses against third parties that use a product or service but do not themselves agree to arbitrate. The post Alexa, Do My Kids Have to Arbitrate? appeared first on Law Across the Wire and Into the ... Read More

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) has released a new report, entitled Cybersecurity and Resiliency Observations, which stands as their most detailed and comprehensive information security guidance to date. Companies supervised by OCIE may want to consider the report to be an information security ... Read More

Washington state may be leading the charge on privacy legislation in 2020. The state legislature introduced several privacy bills during the first week of its 2020 legislative session, including an updated version of the Washington Privacy Act (“WPA” or “Act”)—a comprehensive data protection framework modeled after the California Consumer Privacy ... Read More