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June 21, 2023 | Corporate Counsel

Amazon Is Latest Target in FTC's Sweeping Probe of 'Dark Patterns' Marketing

The agency's assault on the e-commerce giant comes months after it extracted a $520 million dark patterns settlement from video game maker Epic.

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June 16, 2023 | Corporate Counsel

FTC Claims Genetic Testing Company Publicly Exposed Health Data

"Companies that try to change the rules of the game by re-writing their privacy policy are on notice," Samuel Levine, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement Friday.

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June 15, 2023 | Corporate Counsel

AI Startup Taps DoorDash Privacy Lead as CLO

"As the market matures, security, compliance and privacy will become a top priority for companies looking to leverage AI solutions. It's important that AI firms, like Inbenta, take steps now to differentiate themselves in this area," Inbenta CLO Adam Rivera said of his new role.

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June 15, 2023 | Corporate Counsel

Former Tanger GC Joins DC Hotel Investor RLJ Lodging Trust

Chad Perry is the new executive vice president and general counsel at the high-end hotel investment company.

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2 minute read

June 15, 2023 | Corporate Counsel

Climate Change Will Up Pressure on Tech Over Energy-Hungry Data Centers

"The scale of the challenge is great and growing fast," the Association of Computing Machinery's Tech Policy Council said in a 2021 brief.

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7 minute read

June 14, 2023 | Corporate Counsel

What a Startup GC Learned From Spending a Year on a 1,000-Person Legal Team

"My experience with growing a small legal team is I need people that are generalists. ... Generalists can step out of their comfort zone, their area of expertise, and jump in on other legal needs and feel comfortable," said Mike Chapin, Kustomer's chief legal officer.

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June 14, 2023 | Corporate Counsel

Coinbase CLO Paul Grewal 'Ultimately Optimistic' Despite 'Regulatory Backlash'

Grewal talked with Berkeley Law's Irene Liu on Tuesday, a week after the SEC sued the crypto exchange, alleging it was illegally operating as an unregistered broker.

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5 minute read

June 12, 2023 | Corporate Counsel

Women's General Counsel Network Founder Joins Climate Consultancy as It Expands Globally

"What could be better than working at a company whose mission is to help businesses and their customers take urgent action on climate change," Jan Kang, general counsel of 3Degrees Group, wrote on LinkedIn.

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June 08, 2023 | Corporate Counsel

Companies Are Drowning in Data. Experts Say It's Time to Purge

"You may get a stakeholder who says, 'We have to keep it forever because we may need it. It's the job of an in-house counsel to push back on that and say, 'Explain what you need it for,'" said David Zetoony, a Greenberg Traurig shareholder.

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June 06, 2023 | Corporate Counsel

NASA Taps Judicial Nominee, Career Prosecutor as General Counsel

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said Iris Lan will lead a team of attorneys and professionals who "are critical to NASA fulfilling our mission to explore the unknown in air and space, innovate for the benefit of humanity, and inspire the world through discovery."

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