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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 (764,998 articles)]( [North America](#northamerica) | [Global](#global) [USA] [North America] Internet & Social Media #top [The Rise of CGI Influencers]( Venable LLP What if the influencer you had been following on Instagram—an influencer whose style choices you admired, and who supported social causes that you… [The FTC’s role in monitoring broadband markets following the FCC’s adoption of the Restoring Internet Freedom Order]( Hogan Lovells Amid the ongoing discussion surrounding “net neutrality,” the FTC’s role in overseeing broadband Internet access service (BIAS) has received… [Selling Products Online? U.S. Supreme Court Ruling May Affect Whether or Not You Must Pay State Sales or Use Taxes]( Kelley Drye & Warren LLP On Thursday, June 21, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court paved the way for states to collect sales or use taxes from sellers with no physical presence in… [Social media follies: watch your step]( Thompson Hine LLP Four quick takes on social media pratfalls by judges, lawyers and others — just from the last few weeks. Don’t let these happen to you! A Kentucky… [The Board’s General Counsel Memorandum is a Comforting Return to a Common Sense Approach to Workplace Policies]( Seyfarth Shaw LLP On June 6, 2018, Peter. B. Robb, General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”), provided employers with the… [California Lawmakers Approve Landmark Privacy Legislation]( California Steptoe & Johnson LLP Today, California lawmakers passed Assembly Bill 375, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA). It is already being hailed as “one of the… [California Passes Expansive New Privacy Law]( California Loeb & Loeb LLP Just as businesses were starting to catch their breath following the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation,… [South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc.: The Court Clears the Way for Online Sales Taxes]( Faruki Ireland Cox Rhinehart & Dusing PLL If you are a fan of online shopping, you may need to brace yourselves; taxes have found their way into your check-out cart. On June 21, 2018, the… [GDPR "Lite" Comes to the United States: The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018]( California Holland & Hart LLP Last month the GDPR launch in the EU was punctuated by lawsuits seeking $8.8 billion from Google and Facebook. It turns out that the GDPR… [FTC Seeks Public Input in Advance of Hearings on the Future of Competition and Consumer Protection Enforcement]( Paul Weiss The United States Federal Trade Commission recently announced that it will hold a series of wide-ranging public hearings on a number of important… [Photoshop Can’t Hide Rimmel’s Influencer Woes]( Kelley Drye & Warren LLP The Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland - similar to the NAD in the US - recently issued a decision regarding a social media influencer that… [Legal Aspects of Cloud Computing: Cloud Security]( Kemp IT Law After the bow wave of GDPR readiness legal work in the run up to 25 May 2018, IT lawyers may be forgiven for thinking that the biggest change is now… [Supreme Court’s Online Tax Decision Will Impact Cloud Computing and Software Industries]( Greenberg Traurig LLP On June 21, the U.S. Supreme Court decided South Dakota v. Wayfair, allowing states to tax online sales even if the retailer does not have a physical… [Remote Vendors’ Sales Tax Obligations After Wayfair]( South Dakota Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP On June 21, 2018, the US Supreme Court issued its decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., overruling the Quill physical presence nexus test2 for… [Digital token ruled a security under the Howey Test, for now]( Reed Smith LLP With the plaintiffs’ bar setting its sights on initial coin offerings, a body of precedent will soon develop analyzing digital tokens under U.S… [eSignature and ePayment News and Trends]( DLA Piper Happy National ESIGN Day! Eighteen years ago this week, Congress passed the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, ensuring the… [Facebook Creates a Process of Review for Previously-Banned Cryptocurrency Ads]( Perkins Coie LLP Facebook has implemented a new policy regarding ads related to cryptocurrency. While Facebook previously banned all such ads, under the revised… [California Adopts Sweeping Consumer Privacy Law]( California Jones Day The Situation: Unanimously passed by the California state legislature, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 introduces the nation's most… [California Passes Comprehensive Online Privacy Legislation]( California Frost Brown Todd LLC California has enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, a comprehensive online consumer privacy law which promises to upend the way… [South Dakota’s Breach Notice Law Now In Effect]( South Dakota Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP As we wrote when the law passed, South Dakota now has a data breach notification law, making it the last state to have a data breach notification… [Hit refresh—Eleventh Circuit decision opens door for copycat ADA lawsuits]( Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP In a decision that may open the door for serial website accessibility lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), on June 19, 2018, the… [California Passes Sweeping Privacy Legislation]( California Pillsbury This week, California’s legislature overwhelmingly passed AB 375, the California Consumer Privacy Act. The act gives consumers new rights to demand… [Government Relations Podcast Series: The Internet of Things]( Audio Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP From computers and cars to toasters and coffee makers, anything connected to the internet is part of the Internet of Things (or IOT) universe. In our… [Episode 224 with Duncan Hollis: Do we need an international “potluck” cyber coalition?]( Steptoe & Johnson LLP I interview Duncan Hollis, another Steptoe alumnus patrolling the intersection of international law and cybersecurity. With Matt Waxman, Duncan has… [U.S. Domain Names: Stand and deliver…your domain name!]( Hogan Lovells Domain name theft (or hijacking) is not a new phenomenon and in fact is a lot more common than most people realise; hence the need to take adequate… [Selling Items with Political Messages? What about "Impeach 45"?]( Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC Walmart is under fire today after it came out that a line of "Impeach 45" clothing was available for sale on its website. Adult-sized shirts, as well… [And so it Begins: California Takes First Step Toward GDPR-type Privacy Measures in the U.S.]( California Adams and Reese LLP If you still think it will be years before the U.S. passes a law similar to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), think… [FTC Signals that It Will Enforce Statements of GDPR Compliance]( Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP Just as companies may be catching their breath after sprinting to get ready for GDPR in time for its recent implementation date, the FTC has now… [Opportunities for Indian Tribes to Bridge the Digital Divide]( Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP There is no question the issues facing rural communities nationwide are magnified on most Indian reservations. Infrastructure and access to basic… [First Circuit’s Decision Provides Guidance on Creating Enforceable Website Terms and Conditions]( Sidley Austin LLP On June 25, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Cullinane v. Uber Technologies, Inc., __ F.3d __, 2018 WL 3099388 (1st Cir… [Jones Day Global Privacy & Data Security Update Vol. 18]( Jones Day Europe's new General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") is driving an evolution in corporate privacy practices globally. As businesses address GDPR… [Global] Internet & Social Media #top [Trademark enforcement in Australia]( Davies Collison Cave A structured guide to trademark enforcement laws in Australia [Data Security and Cybercrime in Portugal]( Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados A structured guide to data protection and cyber security in Portugal [Data security and breach notification in Gibraltar]( Ramparts A structured guide to data security and breach notification in Gibraltar [Data security and breach notification in Brazil]( Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados A structured guide to data security and breach notification in Brazil [Data Security and Cybercrime in Russia]( Buzko & Partners A structured guide to data protection and cyber security in Russia [Data Security and Cybercrime in India]( Kochhar & Co A structured guide to data protection and cyber security in India [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 Cybercrime in Canada]( Stikeman Elliott LLP A structured guide to data protection and cyber security in Canada [Data security and breach notification in Sweden]( Affärsadvokaterna i Sverige AB A structured guide to data security and breach notification in Sweden [GDPR: changes to WHOIS, and what comes next]( Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu PC On May 25, 2018, the European General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") went into effect. Although the GDPR has many provisions that will impact… [EUROPE: Domain names and WHOIS information in a post-GDPR world (gTLDs update)]( DLA Piper With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) having taken effect across the EU on 25 May 2018, this has meant a big change to the availability… [gTLD Sunrise Periods Now Open]( Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox PLLC As first reported in our December 2013 newsletter, the first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs, the group of letters after the "dot" in a domain… [“Alexa - buy me a yacht…”]( Penningtons Manches LLP What is the future for a market place worth US$1.48 trillion? 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