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[Multistate AG Coalition Settles with Google for $391.5 Million over Consumer Location Data Collection]( Cozen O'Connor A group of 40 AGs reached an agreement with Google LLC over the company’s allegedly violation of each State’s consumer protection laws by misleading… [Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Holds That Out-of-State Online Marketplace Sellers are Not Obligated to Collect Sales Tax]( Pennsylvania Blank Rome LLP Can an online merchant have nexus with a state because its merchandise may be stored in the state? And what is the scope of the government's… [Keeping the Empire Intact: Five Critical Operational Tips on Preventing Nuclear Verdicts]( Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP Nuclear verdicts in catastrophic motor vehicle accidents litigation (and even not so catastrophic accidents) have been proliferating for motor… [Consumer Protection: Establishing and Protecting Your Competitive Position]( Video McDermott Will & Emery As consumer-facing product and service companies go head-to-head in an increasingly competitive marketplace, the risks of doing business are higher… [Google Settles Investigation on Location Data Collection Practices]( Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP A coalition of 40 State Attorneys General ("coalition" or "AGs") obtained $391.5 million in a settlement with Google, LLC for misleading users about… [The Danger of Dark Patterns]( Seyfarth Shaw LLP On November 3, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a Complaint and Stipulated Order in federal court against an internet phone service provider… [Online Only Retailers Have a New Defense Against Website Accessibility Claims]( Buchalter On August 1, 2022, the California Court of Appeals issued the decision in Martinez v. Cot’n Wash, Inc. (2022) 81 Cal.App.5th 1026 [297 Cal.Rptr.3d… [Online Only Retailers Have a New Defense Against Website Accessibility Claims in California]( California Buchalter On August 1, 2022, the California Court of Appeals issued the decision in Martinez v. Cot’n Wash, Inc. (2022) 81 Cal.App.5th 1026 [297 Cal.Rptr.3d… [Advocates Petition FTC to Protect Kids from Harmful Online Ad Tactics]( Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC On Thursday, children’s privacy and health advocacy groups petitioned the FTC to craft rules prohibiting online platforms from using user-engagement… [Data Scraper’s Declaratory Action Seeking Green Light to Scrape LinkedIn Survives Motion to Dismiss]( Proskauer Rose LLP On November 15, 2022, a California district court declined to dismiss a declaratory judgment action brought by a data scraper, 3taps, Inc. (“3taps”)… [Why Website Operators Must Beware of Tracking Tech Missteps]( Klein Moynihan Turco LLP A typical visit to virtually any website, retail or otherwise, automatically prompts a mini pop-up query in the form of a chatbot or similar… [Crypto Market Data Published; Settlement Pilot Announced; Reports Analyze Crypto Scams; Exchanges Seek to Prove Reserves as Users Withdraw Funds]( Baker & Hostetler LLP The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) recently published the results of a study “to investigate the drivers of crypto adoption” by assembling… [Payment Processors: Are You Prepared to Uncover "Dark Patterns"?]( Venable LLP Risk management personnel who underwrite e-commerce merchants should have some basic understanding of the types of online merchant marketing and… [California’s AB 587: What You Need to Know About Social Media Content Moderation]( California Baker & Hostetler LLP On Sept. 13, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 587, which requires social media companies to publicly post their content moderation… [Question of the Week: There are an increasing number of partnerships between media companies and sports betting operators. How have these deals evolved and changed over the past two years?]( Proskauer Rose LLP “At Proskauer, we had the privilege of a front row seat at sports betting’s “first pitch,” which was the strategic alliance we worked on between The… [Class Action Lawsuits Continue Targeting Companies For Tracking Users’ Website Activity]( Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Plaintiff’s firms continue to file variations of state law wiretapping lawsuits over “session replay” software and “live chat” or “chatbot”… [State Privacy Laws in 2023: Are Your Privacy Practices Compliant?]( California Klein Moynihan Turco LLP Website operators are at a pivotal moment in history when it comes to consumer data privacy. Although this sounds a bit ominous, we cannot emphasize… [Fantasy Sports Operators Subject to New Massachusetts Tax]( Massachusetts Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP The Massachusetts sports betting bill (“H.5164”) was signed into law in August 2022 by Governor Charlie Baker (more here on the impact of the Bill)… [FCC Orders ISPs to Publish Broadband "Nutrition Labels"]( Davis Wright Tremaine LLP At the Congressional deadline imposed by the Infrastructure Investment and JOBS Act (IIJA), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has required… [Facebook Sets Restrictions on Online Gambling Ads]( Klein Moynihan Turco LLP Facebook has updated and is now enforcing their gambling and gaming service marketing policy. In order to feature ads that promote online gambling… [Subscription Lessons from US FTCs Latest Dark Patterns Settlement]( Mayer Brown On November 3, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a settlement with Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) provider Vonage where the… [Episode 431: The Empire Strikes Back, at Twitter]( Audio Steptoe & Johnson LLP The Cyberlaw Podcast leads with the legal cost of Elon Musk’s anti-authoritarian takeover of Twitter. Turns out that authority figures have a lot of… [Will new cloud-based solutions help radiologists ditch the disc?]( Reed Smith LLP An announcement made recently by Amazon Web Services (AWS) is likely to create considerable buzz at the upcoming 2022 Annual Meeting of the… [Casting a Wide Net on Privacy: California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act and Implications for Businesses and Covered Entities]( Wilson Elser Recently, the world witnessed another win for the protection of children's personal information in the online world. On September 15, 2022… [Solving the EU-US ‘Schrems II’ Dilemma - the US could be declared adequate as early as Spring 2023]( Taylor Vinters LLP In October this year, President Biden signed an Executive Order to create a new way for individuals in the EU to lodge complaints and appeal… [Duguid v. Facebook, Footnote 7: TCPA Landscape Significantly Altered by Ninth Circuit Decision]( Klein Moynihan Turco LLP It has been about one year and eight months since the United States Supreme Court released its landmark decision in Facebook v. Duguid. Since then… Other top stories [Copyright, Clearances and Concert Recordings: ABKCO Music, Inc. v. Sagan]( [The collapse of FTX: can investors recover their losses?]( [New York State Department of Financial Services To Amend Cybersecurity Regulations for Financial Services Companies]( [S.E.C. 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