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Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Benefits Monthly Minute - September 2024

The September Monthly Minute highlights the DOL’s extension of existing cybersecurity guidance to health and welfare plans and also addresses the new HIPAA reproductive health privacy rule....more

Burr & Forman

Do You Have a Pixel Problem?

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If you do not know what a pixel is, you may have a problem and should read on. This article will explain the recent trend of “pixel litigation” and suggest some ways to help companies avoid liability and avoid becoming...more

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Highlight: Amendment of Indonesia’s Electronic Information and Transactions Law

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On 2 January 2024, the Indonesian Government officially enacted the Law No. 1 of 2024 on the Second Amendment to Law No. 11 of 2008 on Electronic Information and Transactions (EIT law)....more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Avoiding Trials on Social Media: Obtaining protective orders to prevent trying your case on social media (or online)

Discovery can be a harrowing and intrusive process for all litigants. As federal and state rules allow for broad discovery of information relevant to any party’s claims or defenses, individuals and business are compelled to...more

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Protecting Data in the Metaverse: Do Avatars Dream of Privacy?

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The metaverse will bring many benefits, but it is also likely to multiply and compound privacy issues, particularly given its global nature. With the advent of the commercial internet in the 1990s, organizations were...more

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Sneaking into the Data Business

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If you are not paying for a service on the Internet, you are the product being sold to paying customers. But if you are paying for the service, can you be the product too? Of course....more

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Indonesian regulator set clearer terms for internet platforms (domestic and foreign): Registration, takedown, and (un)blocking

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In an attempt to enhance legal certainty, especially with the rapidly developing digital platforms as the pandemic appeared to linger longer than it was previously speculated, the Ministry of Communication and Informatics of...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

New Privacy Division Created by Massachusetts Attorney General

Massachusetts Attorney General (AG) Maura Healey announced the creation of a Data Privacy and Security Division, focusing on protecting consumers from privacy and security breaches and threats. AG Healey named Sara Cable as...more

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The Data Most People Don’t Know Exists

Technology has transformed our world, mostly for the better. We can take a road trip without a map in hand, get groceries delivered to our homes and keep track of our physical activity level in real time. But the tradeoff is...more

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Gearing up for enhanced consumer protection: the impact of the EU's new rules

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On 7 January 2020, Directive (EU) 2019/2161 (the "Directive") came into force, setting into motion a swathe of measures aimed at modernizing the existing consumer protection rules, bolstering the level of protection available...more

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Littler Global Guide - Denmark - Q4 2019

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A Case of Double Discrimination - Precedential Decision by Judiciary or Regulatory Agency - A Danish district court has confirmed that the dismissal of a female wheelchair user who had just returned from maternity leave...more

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Spanish DPA on Use of Cookies: Continued Browsing is Consent

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On November 8, the Spanish data protection authority (AEPD) published new Guidelines on the Use of Cookies (Guidelines) (Spanish only). The Guidelines have been prepared in collaboration with different organisations in the...more

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IAB Soliciting Comments on Draft Compliance Framework for Programmatic Advertising under the CCPA

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On October 22, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), a media and marketing industry trade group, released for public comment the California Consumer Privacy Act Compliance Framework for Publishers and Technology Companies...more

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The European Court of Justice Issues Two Important Decisions Clarifying the Scope of the Right to Be Forgotten and ISPs' Liability

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We routinely hear from United States citizens who want advice on how to remove photographs, newspaper articles, videos or personal information about themselves from the internet. Originally published by the European...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Client Alert: EU Internet Users Must Actively Consent to Use of Cookies

On October 1, 2019, the European Union Court of Justice notably ruled on the type of consent required by a consumer in order to store cookies on their device. The case involved a promotional online lottery organized by...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

No Consent, No Cookie! CJEU Issues Far-Reaching Decision on Cookie Consent

In its long-awaited judgment, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) decided the data protection requirements for obtaining consent when using cookies. The court held that “passive” acceptance of cookies through prechecked...more

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CJEU: Consent on the Internet Means ‘Opt-In’

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On 1 October 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down a crucial decision impacting the way that consent is obtained on the internet. The judgment relates to Case C-673/17....more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Client Alert: Using Facebook’s “Like” Button Makes Websites Responsible for Data

Website plug-ins such as Facebook’s “Like” button are becoming increasingly common on websites to promote websites’ products and services on social media platforms.  However, a recent ruling by the European Union Court of...more

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Nevada Imposes October 2019 Deadline to Implement New Privacy Restrictions on the Sale of Personal Data

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While businesses have been focused on meeting the looming January 1, 2020 deadline of the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"), Nevada just ratchetted up the heat by imposing an earlier October 2, 2019 deadline for...more

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Deregulation is the New Buzzword in Washington — Except in the Tech Industry

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The past year has been a volatile one, from trade wars to the government shutdown to a stock market dive. One constant that U.S. businesses have become accustomed to, however, is deregulation across a wide variety of...more

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.DE ups security with 100,000 DNSSEC domain names

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DENIC, the Registry responsible for running the .DE namespace, recently announced that 100,000 .DE domain names have been registered using Domain Name System Security Extension (DNSSEC)....more

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Update: Vietnam’s New Cybersecurity Law

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On June 12, 2018, the Vietnamese National Assembly passed the Law on Cybersecurity (the “Cybersecurity Law“), which will take effect on January 1, 2019....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #160 – In the Near Future: Taking Control of Your Data

I often hear people say that they have no control of their data, that their data is being monetized by big companies, that they don’t know what those companies are doing with their data, that they are frustrated when they...more

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Financial Institutions' Consumer Data Exposed in Web Platform Vulnerability

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Banks and other financial institutions rely on a relatively small number of core service providers to process customer personal and financial information. The National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions (NAFCU)...more

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The General Data Protection Regulation timidly opens the doors to data class actions in Europe

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More than 15 years after the adoption of the Data Protection Directive, the European Commission noticed that the current legislative framework on data protection did not adequately deal with the risks associated with online...more

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