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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 (1,139,798 articles)]( [North America](#northamerica) | [Global](#global) [USA] [North America] Internet & Social Media #top [An Advertiser’s Guide to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act]( Venable LLP Advertisers, e-commerce websites, affiliate networks, and publishers each play a large role in the development of the Internet. One reason they have… [Enforcing Electronic Contracts in Texas When the Other Party Denies Signing]( Texas Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP As an ever-increasing amount of contract negotiation and execution is done online, new legal issues have arisen from such transactions. Consider the… [Supreme Court vacates Linkedin-HiQ scraping decision, remands to Ninth Circuit for another look]( Proskauer Rose LLP On June 14, 2021, in a closely-watched dispute involving the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the Supreme Court granted LinkedIn Corp.’s… [Biden and the EU: what his first presidential summit means for tech]( Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer On 16 June the first EU-US Summit since President Biden took office (and the first in seven years) was held in Brussels. Dubbed ‘Towards a renewed… [Scraping Suit Stymied after Van Buren]( Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP On June 14, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in LinkedIn Corp. v. hiQ Labs, Inc., one of the most significant Circuit-level decisions… [Executive Order Rescinds TikTok and WeChat Prohibitions But Continues to Focus on Vulnerabilities in the ICTS Supply Chain]( Crowell & Moring LLP On June 9, the President issued an Executive Order on Protecting Americans’ Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries (EO 14034), rescinding three… [More Bad ATDS News: Another Case Survives the Pleadings Stage Post-Facebook]( Squire Patton Boggs Yesterday we reported on a stunning decision finding that a case survived the pleadings stage based upon FN 7 of Facebook… [Understanding "Trustworthy" AI: NIST Proposes Model to Measure and Enhance User Trust in AI Systems]( Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) come with the promise of life-changing improvements in Technologies such as smart buildings, autonomous… [President Biden Revokes TikTok and WeChat Bans]( Herbert Smith Freehills LLP On June 9, 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order (“EO”) 14034, revoking three Trump Administration Executive Orders which had banned… [The App store cold war gets neater: Biden revokes executive orders restricting TikTok, WeChat, and other Chinese apps]( Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP On June 9, 2021, President Biden signed Executive Order ("E.O.") 14034, which revokes three Trump-era E.O.s restricting TikTok, WeChat and eight… [Life Sciences Webinar: Key Enforcement & Compliance Issues Impacting Your Business]( Video McDermott Will & Emery One of the few constants in the evolving government enforcement landscape is a focus on life sciences companies and their interactions and financial… [Growth Strategies Startups Should Consider as They Expand]( Carpenter Wellington PLLC When running a small business or a startup, the business owner must do much of the legwork for themselves. This means that much… [Transatlantic Trade | US and Europe - Week of June 14, 2021]( Squire Patton Boggs The Group of Seven (G7) Leaders’ Summit concluded in the United Kingdom (UK) on Sunday, with several transatlantic leaders heading next to Brussels… [What We Know (and Don’t Know) About Remote Witnessing and Notarizing and Electronic Wills and Notarization]( Levenfeld Pearlstein LLC The new normal for signing estate planning documents in Illinois that began with Governor Pritzker’s March 26, 2020, Executive Order (No. 2020-14) is… [A Legal Primer on Social Tokens]( Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC Finally wrapped your head around the Taco Bell NFT drop? Not so fast. Time to learn about “social tokens,” a rapidly-growing class of blockchain-based… [Financial Daily Dose 6.22.2021 | Top Story: EU Opens Antitrust Probe into Google’s Ad Services]( Robins Kaplan LLP EU antitrust officials are targeting Google for "potentially abusing its dominance in the online advertising market to box out competition"—all… [Monitoring Students’ Online Activities]( Atkinson Andelson Loya Ruud & Romo As school districts wrap up the 2020-2021 school year and look ahead to planning for the next school year, this is the perfect opportunity to reflect… [Regulating the Internet of Things]( Audio Jackson Lewis PC Thousands of devices connecting to the internet make up the Internet of Things (IoT). While helping to streamline operations and improve productivity… [Three Cheers for the First]( Graydon Head & Ritchey LLP In Mahanoy Area School District v. Levy, the Supreme Court ruled on June 23, 2021 that a public high school violated the First Amendment when it… [Florida’s New Social Media Law Has Ramifications Beyond Political Realm]( Florida Greenberg Traurig LLP On May 24, 2021, Florida Gov. DeSantis signed Senate Bill 7072 (the Act), restricting the ability of social media companies to "deplatform" a… [Transatlantic Summits: Main Takeaways for Tech and Defense]( Covington & Burling LLP Three summits last week—G-7, NATO, and U.S.-EU—launched a wide range of transatlantic initiatives to coordinate policy, particularly on trade… [Don’t be that Victim: The Critical Need for Ransomware Response Plans]( Crowell & Moring LLP Senator Maggie Hassan (N.H.-D): “My question is, in your planning, did you have a plan for cybersecurity response that included guidance about… [Biden Issues Executive Order Redirecting and Clarifying Scrutiny of Chinese Apps]( Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP On June 9, 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order 14034 (Protecting Americans’ Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries) (“EO 14034”) to revoke… [Insight: IP and data protection for fintech businesses in USA]( Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP A brief guide to the key IP and data protection considerations for fintech businesses operating in USA. [Global] Internet & Social Media #top [Tokyo 2020: The importance of Olympic intellectual property]( Brodies LLP However, as well as being the pinnacle of athletic competition, the Olympics are also in some ways a festival of Intellectual Property (IP) protection… [Japanese Online Service Form Contracts: Can Ambiguity Be Interpreted by the Operator?]( Paul Hastings LLP This article discusses a lawsuit brought by a qualified consumer association to rectify an alleged violation of consumer interest (exoneration of… [The Italian Competition Authority Opens a Hidden Influencer Marketing Proceeding against British American Tobacco Italia S.p.A. And Three Influencers]( Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA) On May 31, 2021, the Italian Competition Authority (“Authority”) opened a proceeding against the Italian unit of the tobacco giant British American… Event notice [Protect Your Domains to Protect Your Brand: Identifying Trends, Highlighting Risks and Strengthening Your Brand Online]( Clarivate Online, 29 June 2021 Other top stories [Influencer marketing: there is more than meets the eye]( [Coca-Cola Faces "Sustainable" Lawsuit]( [With the goal of countering China's tech ascendancy, the US Senate approves the US Innovation and Competition Act]( [FTC Announces Review of Business Opportunity Rule]( [Fintech Disruption: It’s Not That Simple]( [A New Standard in Standard Contractual Clauses]( [House Subcommittee Launches Investigation into FinTech Companies’ Role in Allegedly Fraudulent PPP Loans]( [The Colorado Privacy Act: how does it stack up against the CCPA?]( [Supreme Court Remands LinkedIn Data Scraping Case Back to Ninth Circuit]( [Emotional Harms For Alleged FCRA Violations?]( International developments [Stamp duty goes officially online - finally!]( [European Commission publishes preliminary findings of its sector inquiry into the Internet of Things]( [Cyber squatting :a prevailing Cybercrime]( [Google Liable in Defamation for Links to Defamatory Websites: Defteros V Google LLC [2021] VSCA 167]( [China: Legal framework for e-commerce]( [Québec Court of Appeal Strikes Down Provincial Site-blocking Law, Clarifies Scope of Federal Telecoms Jurisdiction over Internet Service Providers]( [Vietnam Tightens Grip on Social Media under the New Code of Conduct]( [In review: digital markets, funding and payment services in Brazil]( [E-Privacy-Verordnung: EU-Rat einigt sich auf eine Regelung für die Nutzung von Kommunikationsdaten und Cookies]( DE [Italian government delegated to implement the EECC directive]( Event notice [CCH Pinpoint® In-Depth Series: Navigating Workers Compensation Law]( Wolters Kluwer Asia-Pacific Online, 16 July 2021 [CCH Pinpoint® In-Depth Series: Guided tour of Competition and Consumer Law]( Wolters Kluwer Asia-Pacific Online, 15 July 2021 [Medical Law in Queensland 2021 Course]( Barry.Nilsson. 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