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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 (830,457 articles)]( [North America](#northamerica) | [Global](#global) [USA] [North America] Internet & Social Media #top [Clash of the titans: the changing face of competition in the tech industry]( Lexology Tech giants and disruptive market entrants have already transformed the way that we communicate and consume information - now they could be on the… [Jackson County, Georgia Pays Hackers $400,000 After Ransomware Attack]( Robinson & Cole LLP Cities and towns continue to be a profitable target for successful ransomware attacks. As we previously reported [view related posts], the list of… [Washington Privacy Act Clears Senate]( Washington Baker & Hostetler LLP On March 6, SB 5376, the Washington Privacy Act, passed the Washington Senate in an overwhelming 46-1 vote (with two members excused). Prior to its… [BACK TO BASICS, Continued—Electronic Commerce and doing business remotely!]( Sirote & Permutt PC It used to be so simple. When a customer wanted to borrow money or wanted to purchase a living room suite “on credit,” he or she would come to the… [Final credits roll on the Hollywood movies pay-TV saga]( Bristows This epic has seen Sky and major Hollywood movie studios do battle with the Commission over exclusive territorial restrictions in copyright licences… [Blockchain Games and Collectibles - Patents and Other Legal Issues]( Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP Blockchain Games and Collectibles Are on the Rise - The use of blockchain (or distributed ledger) technology for games (a.k.a blockchain games) and… [GT: Regulation for authorization of salary book, by using electronic communication]( Arias On March 15th, 2019, was published in the Official Gazette, the Ministerial Agreement number 124-2019 of the Ministry of Labor, by means of which the… [Plenty of likes for defamation reform in a digital world]( HopgoodGanim Australia’s defamation laws have not been reformed since the introduction of the Uniform Defamation Acts in 2005. While the laws have remained the… [Arent Fox Privacy Report: Networking App Fined $5.7 Million for COPPA Violations]( Arent Fox LLP The video social networking app Musical.ly, now known as TikTok, agreed to pay $5.7 million to settle FTC allegations that the company collected… [IoT (internet of things) legislation makes an appearance in the U.S Senate]( K&L Gates For those who are not familiar with the acronym, IoT or ‘Internet of things’ refers to the interconnection of network devices and everyday objects… [Credit Unions Push DOJ for ADA Guidance]( Florida Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP Financial institutions need help, the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) told newly confirmed U.S. Attorney General William Barr, urging the… [YouTube disallows ads on anti-vax content; privacy bills aim to extend children’s protections from Internet harm, secure users’ control over data]( New York Morrison & Foerster LLP New York is now one of the 43 states where “revenge porn,” the posting of explicit photographs or videos to the Internet without the subject’s… [Digital Accessibility Crystal Ball: Will We See Different Types of Cases in 2019 and Beyond?]( Level Access With digital accessibility lawsuits at record numbers—more than 2,250 cases were filed in federal court under Title III of the Americans with… [Fake Reviews, Real FTC Action]( Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP In the first case challenging a marketer's use of fake paid reviews on an independent retail site, the Federal Trade Commission settled with Cure… [Data Privacy Detective Podcast Episode 32 - Discovering Personal Data: How the unknown becomes known]( Audio Frost Brown Todd LLC Businesses hold vast amounts of digital and hard copy data. Much is personal data regulated by differing country and state laws and rules. The first… [FTC Continues Enforcement Actions To Stop Deceptive Free-Trial And Negative Option Schemes]( Reed Smith LLP The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently filed another case in a series of recent enforcement actions targeting allegedly deceptive online… [Army of Fake Reviews Pumped Product Ratings, Says Commish]( Baker & Hostetler LLP Weight-loss supplement maker must pay for false claims and fake reviews… [FTC’s Largest Penalty to Date under COPPA Imposed on Music Video Social Networking App]( Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP The owner of a video social networking app, Musical.ly, has agreed to pay a $5.7 million civil penalty to settle a complaint brought by the Federal… [Musical.ly Sings New Tune With $5.7M FTC Settlement]( Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP The Federal Trade Commission announced the largest civil penalty obtained in a Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) case, in a $5.7… [FTC Stops Fake Job Opportunity And Resume Repair Operation]( Reed Smith LLP The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently charged two companies, Worldwide Executive Job Search Solutions, LLC and PrivateEquityHeadhunters.com… [Urgent Message: Privacy Shield Notices Need Updating Before No-Deal Brexit Withdrawal Date]( Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP Privacy Shield participants must update their privacy notices by March 29, 2019 (if the UK crashes out of the EU then with no deal) to continue to… [Federal Privacy Law - Could It Happen in 2019?]( Robinson & Cole LLP This was a busy week for activity and discussions on the federal level regarding existing privacy laws - namely the European Union’s General Data… [Episode 255: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery: Russia and China revamp their military technologies]( Audio Steptoe & Johnson LLP In our interview, Elsa Kania and Sam Bendett explain what China and Russia have learned from the American way of warfighting - and from Russia’s… [CPSC Acting Chair Buerkle’s Priorities Include IoT and Furniture Safety]( Morrison & Foerster LLP At a recent product safety conference, Ann Marie Buerkle, Acting Chair of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), announced CPSC’s… [Missguided Misguides Kim Kardashian Consumers]( Arent Fox LLP Kim Kardashian West has filed suit against Missguided USA Finance Inc. and Missguided Limited, in the US District Court for the Central District of… [Expelling the Email Warrior From Clubs]( North Carolina Greenberg Traurig LLP Club boards and management are often the targets of members’ critical emails to other members and social media posts, which are often inflammatory… [Increased Scrutiny on Notice and Choice for Use of AD Profiling, Especially Using Mobile Location Data]( Baker & Hostetler LLP Are you an app publisher or do you advertise via mobile apps or obtain marketing data that originates from them? If so, you need to beware that… [Misconfigured Box Accounts Can Expose Data]( Robinson & Cole LLP Security researchers at Adversis have discovered that dozens of companies have inadvertently leaked corporate and customer data through their Box… [Keeping Boilerplate Coupled to the Transaction: The Ongoing Struggles with “Wrap” Arbitration Provisions]( Stinson Leonard Street LLP At least in theory, mutual assent remains a cornerstone of contract law and thus of arbitration. The tricky part has become understanding what counts… [FTC Proposes Increased Data Security and Mandatory Encryption for Financial Institutions]( Troutman Sanders LLP The FTC issued a press release last week seeking comment on proposed changes to two rules under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (the "GLBA Act")… [FTC Files Complaint for Alleged Skin Care Negative Option Scheme]( Baker & Hostetler LLP Complaint alleges hidden transactions, auto pay programs… [“Catch Up, Ketchup!”: NAD Weighs in on “Real” Ketchup]( Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP The ketchup wars between Kraft Heinz and Unilever continue. In the latest battle, the National Advertising Division (“NAD”) issued a decision on… [SEC Says New Advertising Rules Are Coming]( Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC In a speech at the Investment Adviser Association Conference, the Director of the Securities & Exchange Commission's Division of Investment Management… [A look at the impact and insurance regulatory challenges of InsurTech innovations, AI, machine learning, blockchain, and smart contracts]( Hogan Lovells The last several years have seen a new crop of digital products and services enter the lexicon of the insurance industry such as: usage-based… [FTC Sues Over Negative Option, ‘Free Trial’ Plans]( Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP Adding to a series of actions challenging online "free trial" offers that involve negative option plans, the Federal Trade Commission announced a new… [FTC Takes Hard Line On Fake Paid Reviews]( Arent Fox LLP New York-based company Cure Encapsulations, Inc. and its owner Naftula Jacobowitz, settled Federal Trade Commission charges that the company paid a… [Courts Favor Crime Coverage Of Email Hacks - For Now]( Barnes & Thornburg LLP If your company were to fall victim to a business email compromise (BEC) - a scam where hackers induce fraudulent wire transfers by impersonating a… [When harmful content is posted online, who is ultimately responsible?]( MARQUE Lawyers The devolution of a Facebook NRL memes page into something much more insidious has raised important questions about how the internet and the law… [Proposed Federal Law Broadens Regulatory Landscape for Facial Recognition Technology]( Winston & Strawn LLP On March 14th, U.S. Senators Roy Blunt of Missouri and Brian Schatz of Hawaii introduced a bill to regulate the commercial applications of facial… [FTC Issues 2018 Year in Review]( Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP On Friday, March 15, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission released its Privacy & Data Security Update: 2018, highlighting its privacy and data security… [The Scope of CDA and DMCA Protection for Online Services Continues to Evolve]( Baker & Hostetler LLP The Communications Decency Act (CDA) and Safe Harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) give some protections to operators of… [Art Law & More Instagram]( Boodle Hatfield To celebrate the launch of our Art Law & More Instagram page, we are taking a look at how the social photo platform has revolutionised the way we… [A global approach to IoT cybersecurity?]( Hogan Lovells The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has published a new standard for cybersecurity in relation to consumer IoT products. The… [Chinese state research lab wants Intel to pay for chip tech]( IAM It looks like Intel is the latest American chipmaker to face a patent litigation headache in China. In Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) filings… [Senate Bill Would Force Company Cyber Disclosure on SEC Filings]( Baker & Hostetler LLP Amid growing alarm on Capitol Hill over cybersecurity and data privacy, new Senate legislation would require publicly traded companies to disclose in… [The Internet of Things: Proposed Federal Legislation and Potential Federal vs. State Conflict?]( Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Legislation aimed at improving the security of devices that are part of the Internet of Things was introduced in the U.S. Senate and House of… [Global] Internet & Social Media #top [Digital Business in Brazil]( Pinheiro Neto Advogados A structured guide to digital business in Brazil [Block-buster: how TradeTech could change the world]( Clyde & Co LLP The possibilities opened up by technologies such as blockchain could revolutionise international trade; but there are legal challenges that remain to… [WIPO: Be aware of generic terms in domain name dispute resolution]( Hogan Lovells In a recent decision under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a… [Trademark budgets take continued battering as cybersquatting actions hit record high]( World Trademark Review UDRP filings at WIPO continued to trend upwards, with 2018 setting a new record for the number of cases… Event notice [ABA Section of International Law 2019 Annual Conference]( American Bar Association Washington, D.C., 9 - 12 April 2019 Other top stories [At a Glance: Autonomous Vehicles]( [Fact Checking John Oliver’s Robocall Bit: It was Hilarious- but was it Accurate? 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