The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has settled charges against two companies for not registering their Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) of digital tokens as securities pursuant to the federal securities laws. 

These settlements are part of the first enforcement proceedings brought by the SEC that impose civil penalties on companies solely for ICO securities registration violations. Previous cases ...

 The US Copyright Office has codified new exemptions to section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which prohibits circumventing technological measures used to prevent unauthorized access to copyrighted works. 
Software and its copyright-protected code are an integral part of most devices. Device manufacturers argued that breaking the software locks as part of replacing parts or modifying devices is ...

The European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, Věra Jourová, and the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, issued a joint statement following the Second Annual EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Review, declaring the following:

• Since its inception in 2016, nearly 4,000 companies have made legally enforceable commitments to comply with the Privacy Shield framework; 
• The significant growth of the program ...