On September 10, 2026, Governor Newsom signed SB 1119, known as Adam’s Law, substantially expanding California’s requirements for companion chatbots when used by children. This is California’s second companion chatbot statute, building on SB 243,...

The question of whether sports event contracts can be listed on prediction markets appears to be headed for a showdown at the Supreme Court. On August 28, 2026, the Ninth Circuit held that sports event...

Courts have spent years working through how the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) applies to web scraping, including whether access to a website occurs “without authorization.” In Amazon.com Services, LLC v. Perplexity AI, Inc.,...

For the past two years, plaintiffs’ lawyers have increasingly relied on an unlikely provision of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) to target ordinary website technologies. Today, the Assembly and Senate passed an amended...

Last week, on August 18, 2026, the EU’s e-Evidence Package officially went into effect. It marks a major change in how EU authorities can obtain electronic evidence across borders. By allowing authorities in one Member State to...

On July 28, 2026, the New York Attorney General released final rules implementing the SAFE for Kids Act. The rules clarify which platforms are covered, how covered platforms must determine whether users are adults (18...