Leah Hudson - Page 3
Freelance writer and researcher at TermsFeed
Author
Leah is an editor and writer published by The Spinoff, The Urbanist, UrbDeZine, and Penguin Random House New Zealand. Leah loves to write about sustainable urban development, data privacy, mental health, and matters of the heart. She spends her time reading, walking her dog, and eating unreasonable amounts of chocolate.
B2C vs B2B Sales: How Your Purchase Terms Should Change Depending on the Buyer
Getting your purchase terms right is important, as mistakes can cost you money, lead to litigation, or disrupt your business operations. Selling to customers or to other businesses has a big impact on what your terms should be, particularly in relation to legal duties, warranties, cancellations, and other clauses. Appropriate terms also...
Data Privacy in M&A Transactions: Due Diligence Risks and Red Flags
During mergers and acquisitions (M&A), one company joins or purchases another company. In the process, a lot of information is shared, including the personal information of customers or clients, as well as information on employees. This information-sharing process, called due diligence, raises cyber security and privacy risks for personal data. A number...
AI Tools and Licensing: Who Owns the Output?
Intellectual property law is based on the idea of human originality, and ownership of creative works. But the creation of artificial intelligence (AI), and its ability to generate creative works in tandem with humans, has raised a number of questions about how these laws apply. Legal questions have also arisen in...
Privacy vs. Productivity: Drafting Legally Compliant Remote Work Policies
Remote work is becoming increasingly common, and takes place both within one country as well as across borders. It can be flexible for employees, and helps employers to find talent further afield. However, remote work also creates privacy and security challenges, as well as questions around which labour, health and safety,...
When Privacy Laws Collide: How to Handle Conflicting Legal Obligations Across Borders
Different countries can at times have wildly diverging privacy laws. But for large multinational companies or even small companies operating across borders, they may be subject to more than one privacy law at a time. Working out how to comply with these issues can be difficult, and fines or other...
BYOD GDPR Compliance: Best Practices for Protecting Personal Data
Many organisations allow their employees to use personal laptops, phones, or tablets to access business accounts, networks, emails, or databases. However, while this is a common practice, there are a number of steps that you need to follow to make sure that any "bring your own device" (BYOD) practices that...