Data Security, Social Media, Facebook

Meta Announces the End of Facial Recognition Technology on Facebook

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 11/5/2021

The Facebook company now known as Meta announced this week that it is shutting down the Face Recognition system on Facebook. Meta stated that this is part of a company-wide move to limit the use of facial recognition...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2021

Robinson & Cole LLP on 10/8/2021

CYBERSECURITY - Cyber Criminals Focusing on Clinics + Business Associates - As hospital systems become more hardened to cyber-attacks, cyber criminals are focusing their efforts on smaller providers, such as outpatient...more

Delaware Court of Chancery Orders Facebook to Produce Books and Records, Including Emails, but Not Attorney-Client Privileged...

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 3/1/2021

Earlier this month, the Delaware Court of Chancery added to a string of significant recent decisions under Section 220, Delaware's books and records statute, this time addressing when a company may be required to provide...more

Privacy Perils: Beware Brand Phishing

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 10/30/2020

We often think of phony financial institution emails as a bad actor’s phishing scheme of choice to capture confidential bank account numbers or other private financial information. While those phishing emails certainly do...more

Protecting Social Media Contact Lists as Trade Secrets

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 4/1/2020

Social media contact lists have become an increasingly important part of a business’s customer lists. While courts are still grappling with who legally “owns” the data that the employee acquired on the employer’s dime—such...more

Facebook Suspends Apps That Scrape Data From Its Platform Following Cambridge Analytica Scandal

Farella Braun + Martel LLP on 9/23/2019

Facebook announced on September, 20th, that it has suspended tens of thousands of apps from interoperating with the Facebook platform alleging misuse of Facebook members’ personal data. This is a continuation of the Cambridge...more

FTC Issues Landmark $5 Billion Fine Against Facebook

Fox Rothschild LLP on 7/25/2019

Big Picture Takeaways: Facebook faces many detailed requirements for internal and external governance and oversight with extensive reporting requirements...more

Court Allows Company to Surreptitiously Monitor Former Employee’s Social Media Account to Support its Trade Secrets Claim

Butler Snow LLP on 4/23/2019

A federal court of appeals recently found that there was nothing wrong with a company monitoring a departed employee’s Facebook account and using that information to pursue a trade secrets claim against four former employees....more

Facebook-Hacking Employer Still Gets Injunction Against Ex-Employees

Sherman & Howard L.L.C. on 2/27/2019

Scherer Design Group (“SDG”) sued several of its former employees for starting a competing business (while still employed), stealing trade secrets, and stealing clients. The trial court entered an injunction against the...more

Privacy Tip #159 – Consider Risks When Using Facebook and Other Social Media Platforms

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 10/5/2018

Facebook announced late last week that it had suffered the largest breach in its history—50 million accounts were compromised, and another 40 million accounts affected—yes, that equals 90 million accounts. ...more

Privacy Perils: Data Mining Dangers

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 8/31/2018

Last week, Apple removed Facebook's data-security app Onavo Protect from its app store for alleged violations of Apple's data-collection policies. Onavo, which has been available as a free download through Apple's app store...more

Facebook Facing Fallout Over Alleged Privacy Breaches

Balch & Bingham LLP on 4/11/2018

Over a dozen lawsuits have been filed by users and investors against Facebook after it was revealed last month that Cambridge Analytica, a political research firm, obtained personal information on millions of Facebook users....more

Privacy Perils: What Does Facebook Know?

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 3/30/2018

If you are a Facebook user, in light of recent news related to Facebook's practices of allowing third parties to access and use end user data without your knowledge or consent, you may be wondering whether it is time to quit...more

Social Links: Potential cures for cyberbullying & other social media ills; cross-device tracking could imperil employers; should...

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media on 11/9/2017

After British police unsuccessfully tried to get the blogging platform WordPress.com to remove offensive and threatening posts, the deputy leader of the UK’s Labour Party vowed to urge changes that would make the country’s...more

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