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Debevoise Data Blog: Top 5 Privacy Posts of 2025

By: Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Luke Dembosky, Avi Gesser, Erez Liebermann, Robert Maddox, Julie M. Riewe, Kristin Snyder, Rick Sofield, Sheena Paul, Johanna Skrzypczyk, HJ Brehmer, Martha Hirst, Suchita Mandavilli Brundage, Melyssa Eigen, Ned Terrace, Michelle Shen, Diane Bernabei and Mengyi Xu December 11, 2025

As we approach the end of the year, here are the top 5 privacy posts on the Debevoise Data Blog in 2025. Takeaways for Large Firms from the SEC’s Reg…

Artificial Intelligence

The Federal AI Moratorium is DOA; What’s Next for State AI Regulation?

By: Avi Gesser, Matt Kelly, Andreas Constantine Pavlou, Joshua Plastrik, Michelle Shen and Sergio (Virtual AI Specialist) July 2, 2025

With federal preemption of AI regulation appearing unlikely, having been removed by a vote of U.S. senators in the negotiation over the federal budget bill, it is a good time…

Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic and Meta Decisions on Fair Use

By: Megan Bannigan, Christopher S. Ford, Abigail Liles, Joshua Plastrik and Michelle Shen June 26, 2025

Whether copyrighted works can be freely used to train generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) models is at the core of dozens of lawsuits filed since AI burst onto the scene several…

CCPA

Privacy Enforcement: Shift Toward Cookie Consent?

By: Avi Gesser, Johanna Skrzypczyk, Melyssa Eigen, Ned Terrace and Michelle Shen April 24, 2025

On March 12, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (the “CPPA”) announced a decision and stipulated final order stemming from its investigation of the American Honda Motor Company’s (the “Company”…

Artificial Intelligence

South Korea Enacts New AI Law

By: Avi Gesser, Mengyi Xu, Martha Hirst, Cameron Sharp, Diane Bernabei and Michelle Shen March 24, 2025

South Korea has become the latest country to pass a national AI law. The “Basic Act on the Development of Artificial Intelligence and Establishment of Foundation for Trust” (the “Basic…

Artificial Intelligence

Top 11 AI Posts of 2024

By: Helen V. Cantwell, Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Eric Dinallo, Avi Gesser, Arian June, Andrew M. Levine, Erez Liebermann, David A. O'Neil, Winston M. Paes, Jim Pastore, Paul D. Rubin, Jane Shvets, Kristin Snyder, Douglas Zolkind, Marshal Bozzo, Tigist Kassahun, Matt Kelly, Robert Maddox, Johanna Skrzypczyk, Erich O. Grosz, Sarah Wolf, Samuel J. Allaman, Melyssa Eigen, Joshua A. Goland, Martha Hirst, Gabriel Kohan, Jarrett Lewis, Andreas Constantine Pavlou, Melissa Runsten, Sharon Shaji, Cameron Sharp, Ned Terrace, Annabella M. Waszkiewicz, Cooper Yoo, Laura Hallas and Michelle Shen December 9, 2024

As we approach the end of the year, here are the Top 11 Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) posts on the Debevoise Data Blog in 2024 by page views. If you are…

Compliance

Cyber Whistleblower Leads to DOJ Civil Settlement

By: Avi Gesser, Luke Dembosky, Andrew M. Levine, Erez Liebermann, Jim Pastore, Stephanie Cipolla and Michelle Shen November 4, 2024

On October 22, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that The Pennsylvania State University (“Penn State”), a public university in University Park, Pennsylvania, agreed to pay $1.25 million…