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[] To ensure delivery to your mailbox please add domain @lexology.com to your safe senders list [View in Browser]( [Lexology]( [My Account]( | [About]( | [Search Archive (696,086 articles)]( [North America](#northamerica) | [Global](#global) [USA] [North America] Internet & Social Media #top [The FTC Won’t Let Me Be: Warnings and Enforcement Actions Targeting Social Media Influencers]( Goulston & Storrs PC According to recent Nielsen ratings, the most watched TV shows and live TV events top off at around 20 million viewers. In contrast, the most popular… [Online Mandatory Arbitration Provision Stops Class Action from Moving Forward]( Arent Fox LLP In another victory for retail and fashion clients, a federal court recently held that an online arbitration provision for a web-based application was… [“Pact” Health App Breaks Pact, Settles With FTC]( Reed Smith LLP Pact, Inc. settled charges with the FTC on September 21, 2017 that the mobile software application company engaged in deceptive acts and practices… [Court Holds that Fantasy Sports Companies Did Not Violate Players’ Rights by Using Their Names and Likenesses]( Klein Moynihan Turco LLP On September 29, 2017, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana (Walton Pratt, J.) issued a decision dismissing claims by… [Sales Tax Case Sets the Stage for SCOTUS Showdown]( Akerman LLP It has long been the law of the land that a taxpayer must have a discernable physical presence in a state before it can be required to collect and… [Justice Department Accuses Google of “Alarming” Tactics in Fight over SCA Search Warrant]( Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP The ongoing dispute between the government and Google concerning the company’s refusal to hand over customer data stored on foreign servers has taken… [Reverse confusion actions: how conflicting court standards may affect outcomes]( DLA Piper Online and social media marketing make it possible for small startups to broaden their brand exposure, expanding their consumer base without bearing… [Equifax Hearings Continue on the Hill]( Cozen O'Connor Former Equifax chief Richard Smith returned to Capitol Hill for a second day of congressional hearings into his company’s data breach, this time… [California Court Unfriends Rapper’s ROP Claims]( California McDermott Will & Emery The Court of Appeals for the State of California upheld a trial court decision granting defendant's motion to strike under California's anti-SLAPP… [UKIP “ripping off” Premier League logo, Greece warns of fake GIs, US brands in the age of Trump: news round-up 29 Sep 17]( World Trademark Review Every Tuesday and Friday World Trademark Review presents a round-up of news, developments and insights from across the trademark sphere. In today’s… [E-NAFTA: Canada and Mexico May Be Hot E-Commerce Markets After NAFTA Renegotiation]( Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP North American Free Trade Agreement (“NAFTA”) renegotiations are presently under way with closed-door rounds of negotiation planned for most of 2017… [Cyber Attacks Can Be Risky Business: Is Your Existing Insurance Enough Protection?]( Newmeyer & Dillion LLP The recent Equifax cyber breach sent tremors through the U.S. population equal in scale to a massive earthquake. It is reported that from mid-May to… [IoT, spyware and privacy risks]( DLA Piper The Internet of Things (IoT) enables everyday objects - printers, thermostats, pacemakers, cars - to collect and exchange data over the Internet. Like… [Building a Health App? Part 3: What You Need to Know About FDA’s Regulation of Mobile Apps]( Mintz Levin This is our third installment in our series about the legal issues involved in launching a health app, which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration… [FTC Settles its First Complaint Against Social Media Influencers]( Greenberg Traurig LLP As previously reported, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has begun to take notice of advertising activities involving social media influencers. In… [FTC Twitter Chat: Influencers 101]( Covington & Burling LLP Earlier this month, the FTC settled with two social media influencers for failing to provide adequate disclosures in their promotions of their… [Review of the Privacy Shield Commences]( Squire Patton Boggs On 18 September 2017, the first-ever annual review of Privacy Shield commenced. The Privacy Shield is the US-EU agreement that enables US companies… [Trademark Infringement: High Fashion v. Google]( Faruki Ireland Cox Rhinehart & Dusing PLL Remember the pre-internet, pre-Google days of counterfeit products? When street vendors peddled Caca-Cola sunglasses (only one vowel away from the… [Groundbreaking Email Marketing Decision?]( Klein Moynihan Turco LLP In a recent decision, a federal district court in San Francisco dismissed email marketing-related California State legal claims against Sauphtware… [Episode 181: Equifax and the Upside of Nation-State Cyberattacks]( Steptoe & Johnson LLP Was the Equifax breach a nation-state attack? Nick Weaver parses the data, and I explore the surprising upside for Equifax if it was. Twitter comes to… [Equifax Hearings - Round Three]( Cozen O'Connor Richard Smith, former Chairman and CEO of Equifax, faced his third congressional hearing in two days, appearing this afternoon before the Senate… [Your State or Mine: Patent Lawsuits Can Now Only Be Brought Where Corporations Have Physical Locations]( Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP For decades, companies have been subject to patent infringement lawsuits almost anywhere that they had sales, whether through a physical store or… [Five Questions General Counsels Should Ask about Securing the Internet of Things]( Mayer Brown The rapid growth of the Internet of Things ("IoT") has brought significant new opportunities for businesses across sectors. From consumer products… [Social Selling and the Gig Economy]( Fisher Phillips If you are a Millennial female with Facebook, I’ll make an educated guess that you have at least been invited to join a LuLaRoe group. Or perhaps you… [Class Action Plaintiff Targets Universities and Colleges for Website Accessibility Claims: Fordham and Three Others Sued in One Week]( Fredrikson & Byron PA We have discovered that this same week, in addition to suing Fordham University, the College of Westchester, Iona College and the College of New… [Paid to Post? #FTCAdvice for Influencers]( Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP In our previous blog post, “#CAUTION: FTC Ramps Up Enforcement of and Education on Social Media Influencer Disclosure Requirements,” we discussed a… [NERC Proposes to Reduce Cybersecurity Risks in CIP Supply Chains]( Morgan Lewis The proposed Reliability Standards focus on vulnerabilities in vendor products and services and would regulate the utility procurement process. On… [New “Employment Law Now” Podcast Episode]( Cozen O'Connor A brand new podcast episode of “Employment Law Now” has just been released. Today, we turn the tables a bit with you getting to hear an interview of… [FTC’s “Stick with Security” Offers Direction on Reasonable Security Practices]( Winston & Strawn LLP The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has continued its rollout of its “Stick with Security” blog series, providing insight for companies into what may… [CoBank Report: Electric Cooperatives Increasingly Bringing Broadband to Rural Communities]( Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP People living in rural communities are four times more likely to lack access to broadband than those in urban communities. Rural electric cooperatives… [Privacy & Cybersecurity Update]( Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP The first annual review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield resulted in a short but supportive statement by U.S. and EU regulators regarding the progra… [DMCA agent requirements changing by end of year]( Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP In December 2016, the United States Copyright Office introduced an online registration system and electronically generated directory to replace the… [Massachusetts is Hungry to Impose a Sales Tax on Cookies and Apps]( Massachusetts Verrill Dana LLP Massachusetts has a gained a new appetite for “cookies” and “apps" as a way to collect sales taxes from certain out-of-state vendors that make… [Fast and furious? Connected cars, jamming, and the battle for spectrum]( Hogan Lovells Well, I think that the capacity is there, and many of the world’s largest mobile operators already have significant business units that are dedicated… [Reminder: Electronic Registration of Designated Agent for DMCA Safe-Harbor Take-Down Notices Due at Copyright Office by December 31]( Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP The Copyright Office yesterday issued a reminder, here, that their electronic system for “designated agents” of Internet service providers - those… [Global] Internet & Social Media #top [Collection, storage and transfer of data in Italy]( ICT Legal Consulting A structured guide to collection, storage and transfer of data in Italy [Collection, storage and transfer of data in France]( ADSTO A structured guide to collection, storage and transfer of data in France [Collection, storage and transfer of data in Austria]( DORDA A structured guide to collection, storage and transfer of data in Austria [Reputational harm of automated ads revealed; how counsel can engage marketing on solutions]( World Trademark Review In a new survey, almost half of senior marketing respondents reported that reputational problems have resulted from advertising being placed… [Collection, storage and transfer of data in Russia]( Buzko & Partners A structured guide to the collection, storage and transfer of data in Russia [The Next Big Thing: Recruiting With Snapchat]( Fisher Phillips Forward-thinking businesses are using social media to further their recruiting efforts. They know that in order to communicate with Millennials, you… Other top stories [The Dangers of the DarkNet]( [Ninth Circuit: Telemarketers Not Agents, No TCPA Liability]( [District Court Dismisses FTC’s “Unfairness” Claim Against Internet of Things Manufacturer]( [Oral, Partial Revocation Valid Under TCPA, Eleventh Circuit Rules]( [Wow! Illinois Biometric Privacy Suits Proliferate]( [Congressional, Executive, and Legal Developments for Government Contractors to Consider - September 2017]( [IP Law Update: September 2017]( [Aegerion Settles Criminal and Civil Probe of Promotional Practices, REMS and HIPAA Compliance, and Patient Assistance Programs]( [Eighth Circuit Holds That Threat of Future Harm Insufficient to Satisfy Article III Standing]( [OCC Acting Comptroller Woos Fintech Companies with Remarks on Online Lending]( International developments [Data security and breach notification in Brazil]( [Data security and breach notification in Germany]( [Il rischio di attacchi cyber nel settore marittimo e le nuove linee guida BIMCO sulla sicurezza informatica, Settembre 2017]( IT [Proposed EU Regulation for the free flow of Data in the European Union]( [Netlix and Escobar family’s trademark tussle, registration fall in new gTLDs and IP in Westeros: news round-up]( [Social media influencer relationships come under further scrutiny]( [The Smart Contract Trend]( [Your voice is heard - controversial clause deleted from China’s New Domain Name Rules]( [Be careful what you click ‒ jurisdictional issues lurk when contracting online]( [Sulla validità delle condizioni generali di un contratto on-line]( IT Event notice [2017 Section of International Law Fall Conference]( American Bar Association Miami, FL, 24 - 27 October 2017 [Unsubscribe]( | [Disclaimer]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Contact]( [Globe Business Publishing]( [© 2006-2017 Globe Business Media Group](