Legal & Compliance
App Annie and Founder Bertrand Schmitt Charged with Securities Fraud by the SEC
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.
Legal Considerations of Alternative Data in Latin America
This regional session took a look at recent compliance news and developments affecting data privacy and alternative data in Latin America, with a particular focus on Brazil. The session focused on two key topic topics relating to the acquisition of data in Brazil: Insider trading & Data privacy.
Eagle Alpha Legal Wrap - August 2021
Eagle Alpha rounds up some of the most relevant legal and compliance articles surrounding the alternative data space over the past month.
Executive Order Shining Spotlight on Data Privacy for Corporates
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.
The Growing Importance of Alt Data to UK Financial Services Companies
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.
Compliance Focus with ACA Group
The following article is based on a workshop hosted as part of the Eagle Alpha Data Strategy solution. A recording of the full workshop is attached along with a summary of the session.
Eagle Alpha Legal Wrap - July 2021
Eagle Alpha rounds up some of the most relevant legal and compliance articles surrounding the alternative data space over the past month.
Supreme Court Orders LinkedIn and hiQ Data Scraping Case Back to Ninth Circuit
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.
A New FTC Agency to Deal with Data Privacy
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.
Eagle Alpha Spotlight - Data Privacy and Alternative Data (Edition 2)
This paper pulls together publicly available data along with insights from vendor interviews and Eagle Alpha’s proprietary articles and webinars.
Eagle Alpha Legal Wrap - June 2021
Eagle Alpha rounds up some of the most relevant legal and compliance articles surrounding the alternative data space over the past month.