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California A.G. Makes Good on Promise to Pursue Apps That Don’t Comply With...
On October 30, 2012, California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced that her office would begin notifying the developers of as many as 100 mobile apps that their apps do not comply with the...
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FTC Snuffs Out Online “History Sniffing”
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has cracked down on a company that was engaged in “history sniffing,” a means of online tracking that digs up information embedded in web browsers to reveal the...
View ArticleFTC Issues Substantially Revised COPPA Rule, Effective July 1, 2013: Review...
On December 19, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission (“Commission”) announced long-awaited amendments to its rule implementing the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“Rule”). The changes—which...
View ArticleJailbreak: U.S. Google Executives’ Italian Convictions Overturned
On December 21, 2012, the third Milan appeals court acquitted three U.S.-based Google executives who had previously been convicted for breaches of Italian data protection law after Google failed to...
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Be Wary of Sharing: Anonymous P2P User’s Motion to Quash Subpoena Denied
BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing system that enables the quick downloading of large files, has sparked another novel controversy stemming from copyright-infringement claims brought...
View ArticleNew Issue of the Socially Aware Newsletter Now Available
In the latest issue of Socially Aware, our Burton Award-winning guide to the law and business of social media, we look at recent First Amendment, intellectual property, labor and privacy law...
View ArticleSocially Aware Looks Back: The Social Media Law Year in Review
2012 was a momentous year for social media law. We’ve combed through the court decisions, the legislative initiatives, the regulatory actions and the corporate trends to identify what we believe to be...
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Watch What You Tweet: Proposed Social Media Guidance for Financial Institutions
With the explosive growth of social media, consumers increasingly expect to be able to interact online with the companies from which they buy goods and services. As a result, financial institutions...
View ArticleFTC Announces Important Settlement With Social Networking App and Releases...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a potentially groundbreaking settlement with the social networking app Path and released an important new staff report on Mobile Privacy Disclosures late...
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Dear Facebook, Could You Please Forget I Exist?
Europe is currently undergoing a significant reform of its privacy regime. Under the current European Union (EU) Privacy Directive, individuals already have broad rights curtailing companies’ ability...
View ArticleA Fistful of Data: Facebook and Profile Technology, Inc. Showdown Over the...
As social media matures and users become more concerned about the privacy of the information they publish online, New Zealand-based search engine app company Profile Technology, Inc. and Facebook are...
View ArticleIt’s Déjà Vu All Over Again: Massachusetts Allows Actions for Violation of...
Massachusetts appears to have followed California’s lead in opening a litigation floodgate over ZIP code collection at the point of sale. In 2011, the California Supreme Court held in Pineda v....
View ArticleEuropean Privacy Regulator Issues Important Opinion on the Use of Apps
On February 27, 2013, the European Article 29 Working Party (a group comprising representatives from all of the data protection authorities of the EU Member States, referred to in this articles as...
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“Do Not Track” Comes to CalOPPA
California’s AB 370, if signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, would be the first piece of legislation in the world directly addressing “do not track” (DNT) to become law. It has passed both houses of the...
View ArticleCollaborative Consumption – Is It Good to Share?
Peer-to-peer (“P2P”) business models based on the Internet and technology platforms have become increasingly innovative. As such models have proliferated, they frequently result in clashes with...
View ArticleMobile Apps: No Surprises, Please
From our sister blog, MoFo Tech: Widely applicable rules regarding consumer privacy disclosures in our increasingly mobile world are only now emerging. Government agencies, individual states, and...
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FTC Expands Reach on Conspicuousness of Privacy Disclosures in Settlement...
An FTC settlement with a mobile app over its privacy disclosures alleged to be deceptive may seem to be run-of-the-mill. After all, the FTC has been settling cases for years with companies whose data...
View ArticleGerman Court Finds 25 Provisions in Google’s Online Terms of Use and Privacy...
In November 2013, the Berlin District Court ruled that all of the 25 provisions in Google’s online terms of use and privacy policy that had been challenged by the German Federation of Consumer...
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Data Protection Masterclass Webinar: Spotlight on Social Media Marketing and...
Our global privacy + data security group’s Data Protection Masterclass Webinar series is turning the spotlight on social media marketing and policies in January. Please join Socially Aware contributors...
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Employer Access to Employee Social Media: Applicant Screening, ‘Friend’...
A 2013 CareerBuilder survey of hiring managers and human resource professionals reports that more than two in five companies use social networking sites to research job candidates. This interest in...
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