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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 (758,807 articles)]( [North America](#northamerica) | [Global](#global) [USA] [North America] Internet & Social Media #top [“Issue Snapshots” and The Wayback Machine]( Squire Patton Boggs The IRS recently sent out an email (to those of you brave enough to willingly put yourselves on a government email list - rather like those intrepid… [Trademark and branding pitfalls in a hashtag culture]( Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC With viral marketing using social media hashtags on the rise, some practitioners predict an increase in the use of the merely informational refusal… [Website Accessibility Guidelines Get Update; California Court Limits Penalties to One Visit]( Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Bryan Cave) An update has been published to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, the standards that have been applied by many courts in the… [CPSC Sets Public Hearing on Internet-Connected Consumer Products]( Tucker Ellis In a Federal Register Notice, the Consumer Product Safety Commission ("CPSC") stated that on May 16, it will conduct a public hearing on potential… [W3C Updates Website Accessibility Standards]( Klein Moynihan Turco LLP For the past four years, the World Wide Web Consortium (“W3C”) has been working to update version 2.0 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines… [Recent Virtual Currency Actions by the CFTC and State Regulators]( Sullivan & Cromwell LLP CFTC Staff Issues Advisory for Exchanges and Clearinghouses Listing Virtual Currency Derivatives and Announces Agreement for Information Sharing with… [Another SEC Enforcement Action against Allegedly Fraudulent ICO]( Proskauer Rose LLP On May 29, the SEC announced that it had secured injunctive relief halting an allegedly “ongoing fraud” involving an unregistered, non-exempt ICO that… [Ad Standards Introduces New Influencer Disclosure Guidelines]( Venable LLP Our Canadian partner in the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA) wrote this post about influencer disclosure practices in Canada that we wanted… [OFAC sanctions Russian entities and individuals for cyber activities connected to FSB]( Buckley Sandler LLP On June 11, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced its decision to sanction five Russian entities and three… [Back To The Future: FCC Returns To Light Touch Regulation Of The Internet]( Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP This week, the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC’s”) Restoring Internet Freedom Order took effect, rolling back the public-utility style… [Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - May 2018]( Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP In this month's edition of Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we discuss the General Data Protection Regulation taking effect and whether regulators are… [New Data Breach Notification Laws Spring 2018: What You Need to Know]( Perkins Coie LLP This spring has brought a particularly active round of revisions to state data breach notification laws. Most notably, as of July 1, 2018, every state… [Free Press Under Attack]( Graydon Head & Ritchey LLP CNN’s Jim Acosta had an interesting Twitter exchange with Brad Parscale this week. Parscale was the digital media director for President Trump’s 2016… [COPPA Revisited: The Do Not Track Kids Act of 2018 Provides a Glimpse into What Lawmakers Could Do to Ground Services with Large Teen Customer Bases]( Reed Smith LLP In enacting the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, Congress determined that the safeguards built into the statute should apply only to children… [North Korean cyberattacks increase ahead of summit]( K&L Gates North Korean cyberattack activity appears to have ramped up ahead of the highly anticipated US-North Korea summit, which is expected to take place on… [Are You Accessible In Cyberspace?—Healthcare Is Not Immune From the Latest ADA Title III Trend]( Jackson Lewis PC Public accommodation lawsuits under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) have been around for years, but traditionally involve… [Colorado Reaches New High with Strict Data Breach Notification Law]( Colorado Kelley Drye & Warren LLP On May 29, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed into law HB18-1128 to strengthen data breach notification requirements for companies and… [The Weekly Privacy Rewind]( Baker & Hostetler LLP Google has sought dismissal of a putative class action lawsuit alleging violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)… [No country is an island, especially in cyberspace: the US CLOUD Act and its international reach]( Maddocks The Act amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) and other parts of the United States Code (USC). The key amendments to the USC effected by the Act… [The Weekly Privacy Rewind]( Colorado Florida Vermont Baker & Hostetler LLP Bank of Montreal and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce announced that they were contacted by hackers and informed that nearly 90,000 customers’… [Judge Buchwald: Trump Can’t Block Twitter Users Under First Amendment]( Steptoe & Johnson LLP In an opinion yesterday, Judge Buchwald found that President Trump’s practice of blocking users on Twitter (typically after they post a comment… [Fight California’s Proposed Privacy Law, ANA Tells Advertisers]( California Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) is pushing back against a proposed ballot initiative—the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018—that… [Should the President’s tweets create a “public forum”?]( Reed Smith LLP You might be aware that the President of the United States has a Twitter account. You might not be aware that each time he uses the account to post… [Bug Bounty Programs: What Every Organization Needs to Know]( Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP More and more companies are paying up - and paying more - to so-called “ethical” hackers who report data security bugs or vulnerabilities for a bounty… [The Generally Prevailing Website Accessibility Guidelines Have Been Refreshed - It’s Time to Officially Welcome WCAG 2.1]( Epstein Becker Green After nearly ten years, on Tuesday, June 5, 2018, the World Wide Web Consortium (the “W3C”), the private organization focused on enhancing online user… [Race against the machine]( Cooley LLP Last month, the European Commission published its evaluation of the Machinery Directive (Directive 2006/42/EC, as amended), examining whether it… [EdLawConnect Blog]( Atkinson Andelson Loya Ruud & Romo How could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream? — Percy Bysshe Shelley Streaming school or college events live over the Internet allows anyone in… [Back to Basics, Continued—Safeguarding Customer Information]( Sirote & Permutt PC Last Wednesday, I covered your responsibility under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”) for implementing and following a consumer privacy policy that… [WATCH: Future-proofing cybersecurity and data privacy... in 2018]( Video Hogan Lovells In this short video, Hogan Lovells' partner Harriet Pearson explains what banks and financial institutions need to look out for from a data privacy and security perspective this year. [Ransomware]( Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Bryan Cave) Some forms of cyber extortion are automated and not targeted at any specific victim. For example, “ransomware” refers to a type of malware that… [Walking the Line with Influencers: How to Satisfy the FTC without Your Influencers Becoming Employees in California]( California Venable LLP In light of a new California decision interpreting California’s wage and hour law, brand companies should take a careful look at their influencer… [India: Internet and the determination of jurisdiction in the Case of Trade Mark Infringement]( SS Rana & Co Internet has marked its presence in the commercial world in an unprecedented way. With businesses moving online to escalate their accessibility to a… [CA Court Rules Unruh Act Requires Website to Conform to WCAG 2.0 AA, But Denies Damages for Multiple Visits to Website]( California Seyfarth Shaw LLP On May 21, a California state court in Los Angeles held on summary judgment that the Whisper Lounge restaurant violated California’s Unruh Act by… [Northern District of California Strikes a Blow to the Taxpayer Bill of Rights in Facebook Decision]( Ropes & Gray LLP Facebook has been involved in a multi-front litigation with the IRS for almost two years. It began when Facebook refused to extend the statute of… [North American Product Safety Summit: The real deal? That’s up to stakeholders.]( Venable LLP In February 2018, at the International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization’s (ICPHSO) Annual Meeting, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety… [Global] Internet & Social Media #top [Electronic marketing and internet use in Gibraltar]( Ramparts A structured guide to electronic marketing and internet use in Gibraltar [Data security and breach notification in Canada]( Stikeman Elliott LLP A structured guide to data security and breach notification in Canada [Electronic marketing and internet use in Sweden]( Affärsadvokaterna i Sverige AB A structured guide to electronic marketing and internet use in Sweden [Data security and breach notification in Portugal]( Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados A structured guide to data security and breach notification in Portugal [Electronic marketing and internet use in Singapore]( Taylor Vinters Via LLC A structured guide to electronic marketing and internet use in Singapore [Corporate Crime & Investigations Update - 1 June 2018]( Addleshaw Goddard LLP The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force on 25 May 2018, requires businesses to complete mandatory data protection impact… [Managing the social media threat: Legal strategies for brand owners]( Novagraaf Social media networks provide an opportunity to reach and interact with customers in new and, often, more effective ways. But these opportunities are… [Keep calm and carry on: tips for online enforcement and advocacy after GDPR]( World Trademark Review On May 25, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became enforceable. As a result, rights holders have been left to grapple… [Not so happy families: Online genealogy website suffers data breach]( K&L Gates Online genealogy platform MyHeritage suffered a major data breach in which email addresses and hashed passwords of over 92 million users were leaked… [W3C Publishes Expanded Web Content Accessibility Guidelines]( Seyfarth Shaw LLP The World Wide Web Consortium just published an expanded version of the WCAG to add 17 more requirements to address new Technologies and other digital… Other top stories [Legal Aspects of Cloud Computing: Cloud Security]( [GDPR's Impact on the Use of Blockchain to Facilitate International Trade]( [Insurance Catch Of The Day: Phishing Attacks On The Rise]( [Fintech Update: Regulators Join Together for Fintech Oversight]( [GDPR SIDEBAR: Should You Be Complying with the New Data Protection Law?]( [Colorado Enacts New Privacy and Cybersecurity Legislation]( [California Voters Likely to Decide Consumer Privacy Rules]( [FTC Offers Guidance for Online Giving Portals...Enforcement Next?]( [Cybersecurity News: Vermont, Colorado and Maybe California]( [By the Same Token: Swiss Tax Questions in the Context of Initial Coin Offerings]( International developments [E-commerce in Spain up 26% year-on-year]( [Data security and breach notification in India]( [Data security and breach notification in France]( [Data security and breach notification in Hong Kong]( [Data security and breach notification in Russia]( [Data security and breach notification in Austria]( [Chubb’s new personal cyber security coverage]( [Loopholes in the General Data Protection Regulation]( [Geo-blocking: new rules for traders]( [Social Media and Recruitment]( [Unsubscribe]( | [Disclaimer]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Contact]( [Globe Business Publishing]( [© 2006-2018 Globe Business Media Group](