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Spinning into Legal Trouble: Peloton Accused of Wiretapping in California Privacy Lawsuit

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Like many organizations, Peloton is facing a legal challenge under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) relating to the company’s alleged use of third-party technology on its website to intercept chat communications...more

Dechert LLP

Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 58

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SEC Issues New Guidance as to 8-K Disclosures Relating to Cybersecurity Incidents - On June 27, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued new guidance on the agency’s guidelines for cybersecurity...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

California Invasion of Privacy Act Violations Aimed at Online Retailers

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California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) has become a focal point in recent legal battles, particularly within the retail industry. As retailers increasingly adopt technologies like session replay and chatbots to enhance...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

AI Gone Wild: Airline Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Fabricated

In a recent case brought in front of the Civil Resolution Tribunal (“CRT”) of British Columbia, Moffatt v. Air Canada, 2024 BCCRT 149, the CRT found in favor of an airline customer who relied on information about an airline’s...more

Hudson Cook, LLP

Online Chat Features and California's Two-Party Consent Rule for Recording Conversations

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If you've been on the Web lately (and we all have), you've probably seen a site with a chat feature. Consumers in several cases have attempted to use those chat features as a basis for liability under a California privacy...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Website Adtech: What Every In-House Lawyer Must Know (Now!)

The biggest data privacy litigation risk companies currently face is class action litigation based on the use of certain website advertising technology (adtech). Are you wondering what this means for your company? This alert...more

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Bots or Copycats? Website Accessibility Demand Letters and Website Complaints in a New Age

When one of our clients recently received nearly-identical demand letters from remote, unrelated, and unrepresented parties claiming website accessibility and threatening legal action for damages under the Americans with...more

Polsinelli

Will a New Wave of Lawsuits Roll Into a Nationwide Tsunami? Wiretapping Litigation for Website Analytics

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2022 has seen a new wave of class action lawsuits targeting companies that use technology to track consumers’ interfaces on their websites. These lawsuits generally allege that the use of technologies such as session replay...more

Legal Internet Solutions Inc.

Can ChatGPT Do All My Writing?

Have you heard about ChatGPT, the A.I. tool that will replace all writers and content creators? ChatGPT is a real tool that may help with content creation, but it is not a replacement for human writers...more

Good2bSocial

Website Marketing for Attorneys: How to Prevent Bots From Crawling Your Website

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Generally speaking, you want your website content to be as “crawlable” as possible. It’s important for spiders – such as those from Google – to be able to view your site quickly and easily. However, there might be times you...more

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How Law Firms Can Use Google Search Console

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Appearance remains a common thread of acceptance in too many facets of life. It’s cliché and sad but true. Unless you’re a Kardashian, how you look on the internet is a daily make-or-break decision. While many tools exist to...more

Omnizant

Understanding Your “Invisible” Audience – Bots!

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Your law firm’s website has a secret, secondary audience: bots! While your site visitors’ opinions matter most, naturally, search engine bots can actually have a bigger impact on the reach and ranking of your attorney...more

Hogan Lovells

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

Epiq

Not Even Bots Are Safe From California Law Makers

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In October 2018, California passed the Bolstering Online Transparency Act (BOT Act), which prohibits online bots from hiding their identities in order to appear as a human user. The human-like persona is used to deceive...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

California’s Bot Transparency Law Goes into Effect on July 1, 2019

...On July 1, 2019, California’s new bot disclosure law will take effect, requiring bots to be upfront about their inhumanity. The law prohibits bots from communicating with a person in California with the intent to mislead...more

BCLP

Retailers Should Consider Potential Rewards and Risks of Using APIs

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Application programming interfaces, or “APIs,” have become a critical part of ecommerce, and retailers are increasingly finding new and creative ways to use APIs to enhance their offerings and their business. For example,...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Social Links: Yelp’s Communications Decency Act claim; Twitter loosens its character limit; building a Snapchat audience

The California Supreme Court agreed to hear Yelp’s case arguing that requiring the company to remove a one-star review of a law firm “creates a gaping hole” in the immunity that shields internet service providers from suits...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

LinkedIn Has Beef With Data Scraping Bots

Linkedin has filed a lawsuit to prevent unauthorized use of “bots” that register fake profiles on the social network and steal data about actual users. According to the suit, these acts constitute a breach of Linkedin’s terms...more

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