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Hospital Websites Transfer Browser Data to Google and Facebook, But Escape Liability Under Wiretap Statute

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To date, 19 states have adopted comprehensive data privacy laws, but Massachusetts is not among them. Thus, Massachusetts residents whose web browsing activities result in an unexpected loss of privacy sometimes base their...more

Robinson Bradshaw

The Dangers of Watering Down Class-Certification Standards in Fraud Cases

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Class actions have long been difficult to certify in fraud cases.  But a recent district court decision in California takes a new approach that would make class certification in fraud cases the norm.  That decision is now on...more

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Area Man Defends the Rights of Satirists: The Onion’s Headline-Grabbing Amicus Brief Defends the Right to Deadpan Parody

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The Onion recently filed a headline-grabbing amicus brief intended to defend the rights of Ohio amateur satirist Anthony Novak. Novak created the “City of Parma Police Department” Facebook account, admittedly to exercise his...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

TCPA: U.S. Government Advocates for Strict Reading of the Statute, ATDS Should Include Random or Sequential Generation Requirement

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The Acting Solicitor General submitted an amicus brief in Facebook v. Duguid on September 4, urging the Supreme Court to find that telephony must randomly or sequentially generate telephone numbers, then dial those numbers in...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Nine Amicus Briefs Filed in Support of Attempt to Invalidate TCPA Autodialer Ban

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On April 1, 2020, nine amicus briefs were filed in Barr, et al. v. American Association of Political Consultants, et al., currently pending in the Supreme Court, in support of an attempt to invalidate the TCPA’s ban on...more

Carlton Fields

Ninth Circuit Affirms Certification of Class Alleging Biometric Privacy Violations

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The Ninth Circuit has issued its much-anticipated decision in a class action against Facebook involving alleged biometric privacy violations, affirming certification of a class. In Patel v. Facebook, the Northern District of...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

EEOC Argues that Sexual Orientation Discrimination by a Heterosexual Person can Constitute a Protected Activity

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In her appeal to the Fifth Circuit, Plaintiff Bonnie O’Daniel argues that the trial court wrongly concluded that it was unreasonable for O’Daniel to believe that a complaint about discrimination based on sexual orientation...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Social Links: Facebook’s anti-ad-blocking software; LinkedIn’s “scraper” lawsuit; FTC’s upcoming crackdown on social influencers

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Facebook introduced technology that disables ad blockers used by people who visit the platform via desktop computers, but Adblock Plus has already foiled the platform’s efforts, at least for now....more

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