Category: Internet Law

The Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”) has now gone into effect in the European Union. Implementation of the AI Act will be phased in over three years or so, allowing businesses time to evaluate their AI systems and create compliance policies and programs. The purpose of the AI Act is to regulate the use of […]

As discussed in Part One of this series, the Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”) has now gone into effect in the European Union. In Part One of this series, the Internet Law Attorneys at Revision Legal summarized the applicability of the AI Act, some exemptions from coverage, and the effective date timetable. In Part Two, […]

The Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”) has now gone into effect in the European Union. In Part One of this series, the Internet Law Attorneys at Revision Legal summarized the applicability of the AI Act, some exemptions from coverage, and the effective date timetable. Part Two summarized the Act’s enforcement mechanisms, risk-level framework, and banned […]

The use of social media influencers is now a well-established marketing technique. A variation on the idea — now becoming a substantial marketing trend — is creating and using virtual influencers. Virtual influencers are hyper-realistic, human-looking social media influencers who are designed to act and sound like the “real thing.” These creations are also called […]

The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is a set of regulations issued by the European Union (“EU”) that provides legal protection for consumer personal data. The GDPR applies to all nations and countries that are part of the EU and EU economic areas (Iceland, Lichtenstein, and Norway). This includes nearly every country in Europe and […]

In 2023, California enacted a social media content moderation law commonly known as AB 587. The law has been codified at Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 22675 et seq. and has no specific statutory name. We will refer to the law as “AB 587” herein. Shortly after enactment, the company formerly known as Twitter […]

On May 9, 2024, Maryland passed its version of a comprehensive consumer data privacy statute called the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (“MODPA”). Like all similar statutes, the purpose of the MODPA is to protect consumer data that is collected from online businesses and websites used for various purposes, such as completing sales transactions and […]

On May 9, 2024, Maryland passed a comprehensive consumer data privacy statute called the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (“MODPA”). The nominal effective date for MODPA is October 1, 2025. However, section 14-6414, Sec. 2 states that MODPA will not “have any effect on or application to any personal data processing activities before April 1, […]

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has taken some steps recently to tackle the problem of companies that hijack their own customer product reviews when selling products on online platforms like Amazon. Review hijacking is one of many deceptive methods of manipulating consumer reviews to increase the chances of selling a new product. Essentially, review hijacking […]

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) was amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CPRA”). Both statutes deal with the same issue: protecting the online data privacy of consumers in California. In practice, there is no difference between the two statutes since, as noted, the CPRA is the statute that amended […]