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Nicola Menaldo represents and counsels technology and retail clients on a wide range of issues central to their business needs.

What Is the Ordinance?

New York City’s new biometrics ordinance goes into effect today, Friday, July 9. The ordinance regulates the use of “biometric identifier information” in “commercial establishments.” It is the first law of its kind in the State of New York.

  • “Biometric identifier information” is broadly defined to mean “a physiological or biological

It’s a new year and it looks like 2021 is going to be another eventful one for privacy. In the past few weeks, we’ve seen several states introduce new privacy legislation, starting with Washington. On January 5, the Washington Privacy Act of 2021 (SB 5062) was introduced in the Washington State Senate and

Does your company use chatbots to interact with customers online? If so, California’s new Autobot Law, Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17940, et seq. (SB 1001) goes into effect July 1, 2019 and may affect your business. As the nation’s first autobot regulation, SB 1001 makes it unlawful “to use a bot to communicate or interact with another person in California online, with the intent to mislead the other person about its artificial identity for the purpose of knowingly deceiving the person about the content of the communication in order to incentivize a purchase or sale of goods or services in a commercial transaction or to influence a vote in an election.”
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