China’s Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) was finalized on the 20th of August 2021 and will come into effect on the 1st of November 2021.
On 14th September 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought a securities fraud ruling against leading mobile app data provider App Annie and its co-founder and former CEO and Chairman Bertrand Schmitt.
Eagle Alpha rounds up some of the most relevant legal and compliance articles surrounding the alternative data space over the past month.
Every month, Eagle Alpha publishes a case study exploring the successful implementation of alternative data by a buyside fund. The information presented below comes from news articles and other public sources.
On the 9th July 2021, an executive order titled “Promoting Competition in the American Economy” was signed by President Joe Biden, aimed at increasing competition through the issuance of agency rules and enforcement, with a particular focus on data privacy.
In a report recently published by Oxylabs.io titled “The Growing Importance of Alternative Data in the Financial Services Industry”, high-ranking financial services leaders who responded to the study indicated a huge rise in web scraping activities over the past twelve months.
Eagle Alpha rounds up some of the most relevant legal and compliance articles surrounding the alternative data space over the past month.
Every month, Eagle Alpha publishes a case study exploring the successful implementation of alternative data by a buyside fund. The information presented below comes from news articles and other public sources.
Flow data was one of the most requested dataset categories in the first half of 2021, in large part due to an apparent increasing influence of retail investors on the market.
In March 2020, LinkedIn filed a petition for a writ of certiorari surrounding hiQ’s use of anonymous bots employed to get around technical barriers to harvest millions of individuals’ personal data from computer servers that host public-facing websites.
In early March, two weeks after Virginia became the second state to impose comprehensive legislation around data privacy, the Information Transparency and Personal data Control Act became the first piece of comprehensive privacy legislation introduced in the 117th U.S.
The following article is part two of a four-part series hosted in collaboration with CAIA.
