GDPR v. Google: Keeping up with privacy laws.

Gone are the days when companies can gather a limitless amount of data from customers and sell it to whomever they want. Be it industry-specific regimes, GDPR compliance, or state legislation (including new state statutes in Colorado and California), businesses can longer get away with a generic disclaimer hidden deep in their online terms and conditions.

Join us for a discussion about the landscape of regulations concerning the collection, processing, storage, and transfer of data. Larkin Reynolds and Jason Crosby (and potentially a special guest or two!) will touch on the legal landscape of privacy law generally and then guide the group through an interactive activity. Specific topics and questions will include:

• Vulnerability of personal information
• Deep dive into Europe's recent GDPR decision against Google
• Types of data protection regimes
• Best practices for companies to be (and stay) compliant
• How #sustainable is the current regulatory regime, and how can businesses afford to keep up? How can they afford not to?

TENTATIVE TIMETABLE:

• 6:00-7:00 pm - Networking at 14er's Beer Garden
• 7:00-7:15 pm - Introductions/Announcements
• 7:15-7:40 pm - Talk and Q&A
• 7:40-8:00 pm - Privacy ACTIVITY!

This meeting is free - we only ask that you please patronize our generous sponsors @ 14er Brewing Company. *Note: this event is at the BLAKE STREET taproom--if you end up at their Walnut Street location, there will be great beer but not as many great friends.

NOTE:
*This will be the first in our series of #sustainablebusinesslaw events for 2019. We're excited to hear what topic ideas folks have in mind for future events. Please feel free to send suggestions for topics and speakers to lreynolds@foundry.legal.

TRANSPORTATION/PARKING
#sustainability note:
If you are coming from the metro area, electric scooters are an awesome and sustainable way to travel around town. Download the app for Bird, Lime, Lyft or Razor scooter to get started. Rides are $1 to start and $0.15 a minute after that. Please make sure to follow local regulations for parking and riding scooters.

Parking information: If you do decide to drive in, there is free street parking in the area.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Larkin Reynolds is a recovering recovering attorney (not a typo) focused on privacy, technology transactions, and capital markets. She spent the early part of her legal career advising large financial institutions, major defense contractors, and individuals in disputes, export compliance, and data breach investigations. She now also counsels innovative companies and their humans about sound business planning and compliance issues like early intellectual property protection and compliant crypto asset offerings.

Jason Crosby has worked as an attorney and consultant. He has advised large and small companies in a wide range of fields including construction, government contracting, medical and retail marijuana, and companies using blockchain technology to disrupt their industries. In addition, he previously worked in counterinsurgency and rule of law operations with the U.S. State Department in Iraq and Afghanistan.