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In its first major antitrust case against a tech giant since United States v. Microsoft in 2001, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit against Google on October 20, 2020. The DOJ, along with eleven state attorneys general, accused the online goliath of maintaining a monopoly by stifling competition in its search and search […]

On February 13, 2020, the Department of the Treasury implemented rules for the Foreign Investment Risk Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA) to expand the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Under the new regulations, TID businesses, or businesses with critical technologies, critical infrastructure, or sensitive personal data

On January 22, 2020, a statement from The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights noted that two Special Rapporteurs had obtained a report that claimed with “medium to high confidence” that the Saudi crown prince hacked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ cell phone. The hack is alleged to have happened just months before […]

On January 23, 2020, the Georgetown Law Technology Review’s Gabriel Khoury interviewed James Gatto, a partner in the D.C. office of Sheppard Mullin. Gabriel visited James Gatto at his office to discuss James’s career and current practice areas. James is the leader of the Blockchain Technology and Digital Assets Team at the firm. This conversation has […]

Until recently, Clearview A.I. was a relatively unknown and secretive company. Following the publication of a recent New York Times article, the company has become the center of data privacy concerns. Clearview A.I. is a facial recognition company created by Hoan Ton-That in 2016. The company scrapes images of people’s faces from millions of websites, […]

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), arguably the most sweeping data privacy law in the United States, went into effect on January 1, 2020. The CCPA requires companies that buy or sell data on at least 50,000 California residents per year to disclose what they do with the data and to whom they sell it. […]

Several agencies of the federal government have been purchasing cellphone location data without a warrant from a third-party company, Venntel. This development implicates new privacy questions that have not been properly addressed by the judiciary or legislation. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), along with its divisions Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and […]

On February 11, 2020, District Court Judge Victor Marrero concluded that the $26 billion merger of Sprint with T-Mobile did not violate U.S. antitrust laws. Judge Marrero rejected the claims of fourteen states that sued to block the merger and found that efficiencies and other benefits of the transaction made the merger procompetitive. Over the […]

The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election brought critical attention to the wave of political disinformation campaigns taking place on digital media platforms. Disinformation is the use of misleading, false, or irrational arguments to manipulate public opinion for political purposes and, left unchecked, can result in an electorate disconnected from fact and skeptical of the free press. […]

On January 30, 2020, Apple and Broadcom were slapped with one of the largest patent jury verdicts of all time—$1.1 billion—for infringing Caltech patents on Wi-Fi technology. Caltech filed the lawsuit in 2016 alleging that Apple and Broadcom jointly infringed Caltech’s patents on new types of error correction codes that fix glitches occurring during data […]