Lawyer Ex Machina #5:
Have you been told to use a VPN to protect your privacy while online? U.S. Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) have sent a letter to the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to urge the agency to investigate abusive and deceptive data practices by hundreds of companies providing Virtual Private Network (VPN) services for individuals.
Unsurprisingly, there's a lot of crypto blockchain in the news right now.
NFT marketplace Open Sea has laid off 20% of its staff.
Cryptocurrency lender Celsius filed for bankruptcy and reports a $1.2 billion "hole in its balance sheet."
"The High Court of England and Wales has allowed Fabrizio D'Aloia, founder of Italy-based online gambling company Microgame, to file a lawsuit against anonymous people through a non-fungible token (NFT) drop." [CoinDesk]
Just how energy-intensive is crypto-mining? Very, according to a Congressional investigation, and the Democrats who led the investigation want the EPA and DOE to require carbon emission disclosures from U.S. crypto-mining companies. [Sen. Elizabeth Warren - Letter and company responses]
The parent company of LexisNexis has launched a new legal research service called Decisis, meant to compete with Fastcase in the target market of bar associations and solo law firms.
SixFifty, a tech subsidiary of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, has introduced a new product to automate document creation for privacy law compliance in multiple states in the U.S.