New Video on YouTube: Sample Lesson From Data Terms in AI & Cloud Services Course
Tech Contracts Academy® premiered a short video on our YouTube channel that tackles one of the most confusing — and increasingly urgent — challenges in modern IT contracting: how to handle data privacy in AI and cloud deals. This video, Data Terms in AI and Cloud Services – Sample Lesson, is a complimentary excerpt from […]
Proposed U.S. Federal Data Privacy Legislation: The “SECURE Data Act” (H.R. 8413)
By Kathy O’Sullivan, Esq. (CIPP/US, CIPP/E) On April 21, 2026, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee introduced the latest U.S. effort at nation-wide data privacy legislation: H.R. 8413, The Securing and Establishing Consumer Uniform Rights and Enforcement over Data Act, aka the SECURE Data Act (the “Act”). This article briefly describes just some of […]
Update re EU-U.S./UK-U.S. Personal Data Transfers. Trouble brewing?
Here’s the latest about cross-border transfers of personal data from the European Union and United Kingdom to the United States: In Europe: The European Union-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“EU-U.S. DPF”) survived the first round of a legal challenge in September 2025. But that decision is on appeal to the Court of Justice for the European […]
Do you need nondisclosure or data security terms?
A little more than twenty years ago, the legal community began to recognize that nondisclosure terms don’t work for data protection. NDAs and nondisclosure provisions protect trade secrets, not the customer data in vendor cloud systems (SaaS, AI, etc.). The latter type of information demands a data management and security clause, not an NDA, possibly […]
On-Demand Course Highlight: Data Terms in AI and Cloud Services Contracts
Looking for self-paced learning about information technology contracts’ ever-tricky and evolving data terms? In today’s blog, we focus on one of our data-specific on-demand courses: Data Terms in AI and Cloud Services Contracts. Few contract-drafters really understand data, particularly that you can’t own meaningful IP rights in data. So contracts often address data rights poorly, particularly […]
Free Video Lesson From The Second Tech Contracts Master Class: Privacy and Security Laws
We invite you to watch this free, short video (“Privacy and Security Laws”) from The Tech Contracts Master Class: https://courses.techcontracts.com/courses/master-class-22/lectures/58515130 In this lesson, David Tollen grapples with the chaotic data privacy landscape, and offers tips on coping in your contracts. This complimentary lesson is from the second of our four Master Classes. Here’s the full […]
Don’t blindly accept unlimited liability for breach of nondisclosure terms
This week’s musings on tech contracts … In software contracts, the limit of liability (LoL) almost always comes with exceptions. One of the most common has to do with confidentiality. Liability for breach of the nondisclosure clause has no limit. Why? Most LoLs exclude nondisclosure breaches from the LoL … because that’s what we did […]
Don’t blur the lines between confidentiality and data protection
This week’s musings on tech contracts … IT contracts often include data in the definition of “Confidential Information.” In other words, they use the confidentiality clause to protect “Customer Data” – or whatever else they’re calling the data at issue. That’s not … the worst idea I’ve ever heard. But it leads to some questions. […]
Consequential Damages in IT Contracts (CrowdStrike vs Delta Air Lines)
The very public argument between CrowdStrike and Delta Air Lines offers a window into a topic few understand: the exclusion of consequential damages in typical IT contracts. David Tollen, our founder, explains in this short video. If you’d like to learn more, our Tech Contracts Master Class™ covers consequential damages in detail (course 3, Liability […]
New Training Offerings from Tech Contracts Academy
Tech Contracts Academy is happy to announce new flexible options for enterprises – to train your whole team on contracts for artificial intelligence, SaaS, on-premise software, and IT in general. Please check out our customized programs and other enterprise courses by clicking here. If you have any questions about training options, do not hesitate to reach […]