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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 (736,838 articles)]( [North America](#northamerica) | [Global](#global) [USA] [North America] Internet & Social Media #top [Bringing Residential Uses to Existing Shopping Centers- A Win Win]( Goulston & Storrs PC Tenant curation, experiential retail, and social media-based marketing are thriving trends in today’s brick-and-mortar shopping center industry… [DMCA Safe Harbor Agent Re-Registration Required]( Hopkins & Carley Website operators may be protected from copyright infringement liability arising from hosted user content under a "safe harbor" provided… [Looking to the CLOUD (Act) for Answers to Data Access Conflicts]( Mayer Brown A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced bills in the US House and Senate that would significantly amend the Stored Communications Act (SCA),1 which… [1-800-Flowers.Com Sued in Website Accessibility Lawsuit]( Massachusetts Klein Moynihan Turco LLP Recently, a federal district court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts refused to dismiss a website accessibility lawsuit against 1-800-Flowers.com… [Penny's Notes on the Rising Influence of Influencers]( Fredrikson & Byron PA What is an influencer? Someone who has social media followers and shows passion and connection to a brand. An influencer is not a celebrity… [California district court rules social media company cannot dismiss non-users’ facial scan privacy claims]( Buckley Sandler LLP On March 2, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied a motion to dismiss an action for lack of standing in a lawsuit… [Data in the cloud: what if the cloud provider goes bankrupt?]( Illinois Thompson Coburn LLP With data being the new “coin of the realm,” those who control and exploit data have a winning advantage over competitors. This piece focuses on control of data in the unique situation of a cloud hosting provider’s bankruptcy. [Pop-Up Shop Lease Negotiations Give Rise to Unique Legal Issues]( Blaney McMurtry LLP In recent years, the retail landscape has taken a novel turn with the rise of pop-up shops, which occupy retail space for short periods, anywhere from… [Yahoo’s ToS limitations of liabilities challenged in Cyberbreach of 3 billion users!]( California Gardere Reuters reported that Judge Lucy Kohl ruled that “the plaintiffs could try to show that liability limits in Yahoo’s terms of service were… [Social Links: Inline link to tweet with photo could constitute copyright infringement; proposed California legislation could restrict website operators’ efforts to have minors consent to terms of use]( California New York Morrison & Foerster LLP In a decision that has generated considerable controversy, a federal court in New York has held that the popular practice of embedding tweets into… [A Few Social Media Etiquette Guidelines]( Law Office of Joy R Butler I shared social media business (and legal) etiquette tips as a panelist at a seminar offered at a JA New York jewelry industry trade event. The… [Private LTE networks - a new user's guide]( DLA Piper Businesses have always depended on private wireless systems for communicating, controlling automated systems and gathering data. In the past, these… [Broadcasters Prepare for Their #MeToo Moment]( Pillsbury People often conflate the term “FCC lawyer” with “Communications Lawyer,” thinking of an FCC Lawyer as someone who represents clients solely with… [PayPal and FTC Settle Charges Peer-to-Peer Payment App Misled Users About Privacy Settings and Fund Availability]( Loeb & Loeb LLP The Federal Trade Commission last week settled charges with Venmo and its owner, PayPal Inc., alleging that the peer-to-peer payment service misled… [House Committee Report Highlights Russian Use of Social Media to Disrupt Pipeline Projects]( Hunton & Williams LLP Earlier this month, the United States House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology published a staff report entitled “Russian… [ETHI Committee Prepares for GDPR Adequacy Assessment in New Report on PIPEDA]( Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Preparations for the upcoming entry into force of the European General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") are underway in Canada's House of Commons… [FTC Brings Its Thirtieth COPPA Case, Against Online Talent Agency]( Hunton & Williams LLP On February 5, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced its most recent Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) case against… [Ninth Circuit Selected to Hear Consolidated Net Neutrality Appeals]( Kelley Drye & Warren LLP On March 8, 2018, the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation randomly selected the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to… [Taxing Decision]( Akerman LLP For years, state officials have wrung their hands in frustration because they haven’t been able to tax most online retail sales. By some estimates… [Episode 207: What to do about China?]( Steptoe & Johnson LLP Our interview this week is with Ambassador Nathan Sales, the State Department's Counterterrorism Coordinator. We cover a Trump administration… [FTC Announces Settlement for Venmo’s Alleged Violations of the GLBA’s Privacy and Safeguards Rules]( Hunton & Williams LLP On February 27, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced an agreement with PayPal, Inc., to settle charges that its Venmo peer-to-peer… [Potential Congressional Action on Cross Border Data? A Primer on the CLOUD Act]( Sidley Austin LLP In recent years, the rise of cloud computing has led to more and more data being stored somewhere other than the jurisdiction in which it was created… [FTC Issues Tips on VPN Apps]( Hunton & Williams LLP On February 22, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) published a blog post that provides tips on how consumers can use Virtual Private Network… [Online Talent Company Settles with FTC Over Alleged COPPA Violations]( Keller and Heckman LLP Online talent search company Explore Talent just landed in the spotlight of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The Vegas-based company was charged… [It’s that time of year again: Phish Madness!]( Mintz Levin Beware of March Madness! Scammers and phishers take advantage of increased web traffic by impersonating popular March Madness websites, including… [The PhantomLOrd Strikes Back!]( Baker & Hostetler LLP Back in September 2017, we reported on the case of Trevor "TmarTn" Martin and Tom "Syndicate" Cassell, two online gaming luminaries who settled with… [Come Harvest Time, Who Owns the Fruits of Machine Learning?]( Pillsbury Famously dramatized by the disembodied voice of HAL in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, artificial intelligence has been the subject… [Lifeline Port Freeze Eliminated on March 19; 2018 Poverty Guidelines Available; New Standard Forms]( Davis Wright Tremaine LLP The 2018 Federal Poverty Guidelines (“FPG”) were published in the Federal Register on January 18. Customers may qualify for Lifeline if their gross… [Ninth Circuit Decision Bolsters FTC Authority over Internet Service Providers]( Hunton & Williams LLP On February 26, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in an en banc decision that the “common carrier” exception in the… [Is it Valuable?]( Lane Powell PC Earlier this week I was in Pittsburgh, attending the always excellent American Craft Spirits Association convention. That meant a solid three days of… [Global Insurance Review - March 2018]( Sidley Austin LLP The insurance industry has a global reach. Insurers and reinsurers are critically important to the world economy. They assume and transfer all… [Regulatory Forecast 2018: What Corporate Counsel Need To Know For The Coming Year]( Crowell & Moring LLP The theme of last year’s Regulatory Forecast essentially wrote itself: 100 days after a watershed election, we pulled out our crystal balls to wonder… [Global] Internet & Social Media #top [Data security and breach notification in Malta]( GVZH Advocates A structured guide to data security and breach notification in Malta [Data Security and Cybercrime in China]( Mayer Brown JSM A structured guide to data protection and cyber security in China [Data Security and Cybercrime in Hong Kong]( Mayer Brown JSM A structured guide to data protection and cyber security in Hong Kong [Data security and breach notification in Singapore]( Taylor Vinters Via LLC A structured guide to data security and breach notification in Singapore [Data security and breach notification in Turkey]( CDCA A structured guide to data security and breach notification in Turkey [Data Security and Cybercrime in Austria]( DORDA A structured guide to data protection and cyber security in Austria [Philip Morris, Michelin and Electrolux lead UDRP filers list as domain actions hit historical high]( World Trademark Review Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) case filings at WIPO continued their upward momentum, with 3,074 cases handled by its… [Slow to No Progress on GDPR Issues at ICANN 61]( Winston & Strawn LLP ICANN is meeting this week in Puerto Rico. What is the hottest topic? GDPR, of course. Earlier today, ICANN’s CEO and General Counsel joined other… [Absence of WHOIS May Lead to More Litigation]( Winston & Strawn LLP As I mentioned last week in a prior post, ICANN has published its Interim Compliance Model for WHOIS in order to comply with Europe’s GDPR law. In… [dotFM embraces emoji domain names]( Hogan Lovells dotFM, the Registry responsible for the .FM Top Level Domain (TLD), is to join the handful of TLDs that are making emoji domain names available to… [Trademarks, domain names and the rise of the dotBrand]( Novagraaf In 2012, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) opened up the domain name space, offering organisations the possibility to… [The Malicious Use Of AI - Why Those “Black Mirror” Scenarios May Be Closer Than We Think]( Squire Patton Boggs Developments in artificial intelligence (AI) are proving hugely beneficial for society, both at a commercial and individual level (e.g. face… [Domain names: getting real]( ENSafrica By its own very high standards, Real Madrid is not having the greatest of soccer seasons, although it has, at least, triumphed in a recent domain name… Event notice [Digital Health: The key legal challenges for new market entrants and how to manage them]( Bristows LLP Online, 19 April 2018 Other top stories [The Equifax Breach Continues to Rage]( [Antitrust in the Technology Sector: Policy Perspectives and Insights From the Enforcers]( [SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure and Controls Checklist]( [TVEyes Inc. 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