Practising Law Institute: Communications Law in the Digital Age 2024

Alan Butler, EPIC Executive Director and President, will be participating in the Practicing Law Institute’s Communications Law in the Digital Age 2024 program.

Alan will be speaking on the “Privacy and Data Protection: Current Issues for Media Lawyers” panel at 3:15pm ET on November 7, 2024. He will be joined by Jane E. Kirtley (Speaker), Jeremy Feigelson (Panel Leader), Sarah Horvitz (Panelist), and Olivier Sylvain (Panelist).

Panel Description: After completing this session, participants will be able to answer the following questions:

• TikTok’s ticking clock: what will come of the federal enforcers targeting TikTok for violations of COPPA and the FTC Act?
• Who’s regulating whom? Actions ahead by the FTC and other agencies – and by the tech companies themselves
• Wiretapping law redux: how will the California class actions against third-party software and chat bots play out?  
• Watch out for the VPPA: Class actions mount against media companies for tracking streaming viewers – but can movie theaters rest easy? 
• Big BIPA developments: Whether class actions after business-friendly changes to the statute, and a settlement giving class members a stake in Clearview AI?
• Big ideas but big opposition to comprehensive federal privacy law: How many more states move to fill the gap left by congressional inaction?

More information here.