This article has been written by Shepherd Mullin’s Privacy and Cybersecurity Team Leader Liisa Thomas and its Privacy and Cybersecurity Lead Associate Julie Kadish, on behalf of the law firm. This piece was edited by Esports Insider.
The world of competitive video gaming implicates a complicated patchwork of privacy laws, and esports companies need to keep in mind some key issues when assessing privacy and cybersecurity obligations. Understanding these obligations is all the more important as esports continues to be a quickly growing international trend.
As sophisticated hardware and software have created enhanced features changing the game industry, so too has the opportunity emerged to collect more data from users.