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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 (921,737 articles)]( [North America](#northamerica) | [Global](#global) [USA] [North America] Internet & Social Media #top [TCPA Doesn’t Cover Online Fax Services, FCC Rules]( Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP Unsolicited advertisements sent by fax to online fax services are not covered by the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the Federal… [Actual Notice Via Email Is Not Always Sufficient]( Burns & Levinson LLP In another post, I discussed how an email can satisfy the signature requirements of the Statute of Frauds. Nevertheless, an email is not always… [Pay to Play Product Review Site Attracts FTC Scrutiny]( Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC The FTC has announced a settlement with LendEDU, a website that compares student loans and other financial products. The FTC alleged that the… [Internet of Things: What Will It Look Like When We’re All Connected?]( Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, PC The Internet of Things (IoT) is often defined as a network of interconnected devices, such as sensors, smartphones, and wearables, or the transfer of… [CCPA’s Sidekick: California’s New IoT Security Law]( California Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, PC The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect on January 1, 2020. The CCPA is front page news, and rightfully so… [Facebook Agrees to Landmark 550 Million Dollar Settlement in BIPA Class Action]( Illinois Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Facebook disclosed on January 29, 2020, that it has agreed to pay $550,000,000 to resolve a biometric privacy class action filed by Illinois users… [IRS Issues New Guidance for Virtual Currency Donations]( Proskauer Rose LLP The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) quietly added two new questions and answers regarding virtual currency donations to its answers to Frequently… [SaaS, cashless and convergence drive tech to the top]( White & Case LLP While tech M&A deal value and volume were both fractionally down from 2018's figures, these numbers need to be put into perspective, as 2018 was a… [Enforcement of the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation Coming in the Near Future]( New York Squire Patton Boggs The NY Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulation, 23 N.Y. Comp. Code R. & Regs. § 500, provides for the protection of customer… [Big News in Biometrics - Supreme Court Declines to Weigh in on What Plaintiffs Must Show to Bring Biometric Privacy Suit]( Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, PC On January 21, 2020, the Supreme Court denied Facebook’s Petition for Certiorari, raising the issues of (i) Whether a court can find Article III… [FTC Disclosure Guide Signals More Influencer Scrutiny]( Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP A recent 2018 report disclosed that almost three-quarters of U.S. millennials and their Gen Z successors follow social media influencers, and the… [Florida Following in Other Jurisdiction’s Footsteps with Proposed Data Privacy Legislation]( Florida Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP The Florida Legislature has introduced identical bills in the Florida House of Representatives (HB 963) and the Senate (SB 1670) (collectively the… [NJ AG Bans Clearview AI - Preventing a Chain of Privacy Violations or Interfering with Clearview’s Intellectual Property?]( New Jersey Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, PC The New Jersey attorney general recently made headlines when he made the decision on January 24, 2020 to have prosecutors immediately stop using a… [Blurred Lines: Navigating The Modern Day Data Privacy And Security Labyrinth]( Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP Where do we draw the line between fear and preparation, government oversight and corporate responsibility, victim and villain? What seemingly… [The Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Protections for Copyright Owners and Online Service Providers]( Masuda Funai Eifert & Mitchell Ltd The advent of the internet and advancement in digital technology has resulted in rampant copyright infringement of copyrighted works, such as… [The Guardian to Ban Advertising for Fossil Fuels]( Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC The Guardian, a British daily newspaper, recently announced that it will no longer accept advertising for fossil fuels. The prohibition covers any… [Form 1023 Revisions and Required Electronic Submission]( Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP Retroactive Repeal of Unrelated Business Taxable Income - Qualified Transportation Fringe Benefits aka “parking lot tax” The Taxpa… [BMI Settlement of Royalty Battle with RMLC to Include Music in Podcasts? - Not So Fast….]( Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP BMI and the Radio Music License Committee announced a settlement of their rate court litigation over the royalties that commercial radio will pay for… [Cyber Criminals Using Coronavirus Concern to Assist with Intrusions]( Robinson & Cole LLP Concern over the spreading coronavirus from China is legitimate and real. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the coronavirus a global… [Corsearch acquires Pointer Brand Protection as M&A trend continues]( World Trademark Review Corsearch has announced the acquisition of Pointer Brand Protection. The move represents a continuation of Corsearch’s growth strategy following its… [Stay ADvised: What's New This Week, January 27]( Davis Wright Tremaine LLP The National Advertising Division (NAD) has referred health supplement retailer Creekside Natural Therapeutic (Creekside) to the Federal Trade… [Episode 298: Bill Barr as Bogeyman]( Audio Steptoe & Johnson LLP Nick Weaver and I debate Sens. Graham and Blumenthal’s EARN IT Act, a proposal to require that social media firms follow best practices on preventing… [“OK, Boomer”: From Social Media to the Supreme Court]( Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP “OK, Boomer,” a meme popularized by younger generations on social media, made its first (and likely only) appearance in the United States Supreme… [“Untagging” From Photo Privacy Lawsuit: Facebook Settles Its Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Litigation For $550 Million]( Illinois Seyfarth Shaw LLP Seyfarth Synopsis: On January 29, 2020, Facebook announced that it had reached a settlement with plaintiffs in a class action brought under the… [IAM Global Leaders 2020: Philipe Walter]( IAM If an invention is technical in nature, the key to successful prosecution is sufficient disclosure to overcome any objections that are raised. The… [Ring LLC Faces a Proposed Class Action Alleging Camera Doorbells Should Incorporate Enhanced Cybersecurity Features]( Paul Weiss On December 26, 2019, Amazon and Ring LLC were named as defendants in a putative class action filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central… [Platform-Agnostic Search Mojo!]( Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Searching is a core e-discovery skill that has been a part of the legal case landscape for about two decades now. Throughout that time, the… [Privacy Tip #224 - Please Prepare for a Ransomware Attack]( Robinson & Cole LLP I am on vacation this week in beautiful Jackson Hole. The skiing is epic, the restaurants amazing, 1921 silver dollars inlaid in the tops of two bars… [Cyber Insurance: Is it right for you?]( Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC We are frequently asked about insurance policies that cover internet-based risks like those involving network security like data breaches and… [IoT Manufacturers - What You Need to Know About California’s IoT Law]( Robinson & Cole LLP This week we are pleased to have a guest post from Deborah George, a member of Robinson+Cole’s Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team. Attorney George… [FTC Stops Online Loan Comparison Service From Pay-to-Play Rankings and Falsifying Reviews]( Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP On February 3, 2020, the FTC announced a $350,000 settlement with Shop Tutors Inc., d/b/a LendEDU, a website that ranks and rates consumer financial… [Digital Assets: Are You Prepared to Protect Them?]( Goulston & Storrs PC A key component of a contemporary estate plan is one that is easy to overlook—a plan for handling your digital assets with financial or personal… [Global] Internet & Social Media #top [Top 10 Trends for Legal in 2020]( Exigent Exigent's yearly list of predictions is an unmissable one: CEO David Holme is known for sparing no one in his frank preview of winners and losers for… [UK CMA’s interim report on digital advertising: Global solutions for global issues?]( Linklaters LLP The UK's Competition and Markets Authority launched its digital markets strategy in July 2019 and opened a market study into online platforms and… [The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Social Inflation]( Ansa Assuncao LLP Google “social inflation” and you will find a phenomenon presented as scientific and established. 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