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Welcome to the nineteenth installment in our monthly data privacy litigation report. We prepare these reports to provide updates on how courts in the United States have handled emerging data privacy trends. We are covering...more
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
New York may lead the charge on implementation of data excise taxes (i.e., “data mining taxes”) which will impose taxes on businesses that collect personal data. These data excise taxes primarily target large tech companies...more
The EU’s DSA, which regulates online intermediaries and platforms in digital space, came into effect in February 2024. The purpose of the DSA is to make the online environment safer, fairer, and more transparent by imposing...more
SEO is about much more than web content. By optimizing your firm’s social media presence, you can actually increase your site’s discoverability and visibility across the internet. In this post, we’re explaining how social...more
In July, Instagram’s parent company Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”) agreed to a $68.5 million class-action biometric privacy settlement in connection with the company’s alleged violation of Illinois’ Biometric Information...more
On Friday, July 21, 2023, the White House announced that Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI voluntarily committed to numerous principles for the responsible development of artificial...more
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Trade Commission have sent a joint letter to approximately 130 hospital systems and telehealth providers to emphasize the risks and concerns about the use of...more
In a groundbreaking decision, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it was diagnosing GoodRx’s use of tracking pixel codes and analytics, its digital strategy, as not only an unfair or deceptive act or abusive practice...more
While many organizations are focusing their attention on compliance with the state consumer privacy laws becoming effective in 2023, they should keep in mind that the Texas Attorney General has now filed two cases in 2022...more
On November 4, the Federal Reserve invited public comment on a proposal to publish a periodic list of depository institutions that have access to Federal Reserve and payment services. These accounts are often referred to as...more
Sometimes it’s hard to know how to get the most bang for your buck. With so many options for spending your advertising budget, it takes time to learn what’s worth your investment. Facebook itself is complex and its...more
In July 2022, the FTC brought an enforcement action to enjoin Meta’s acquisition of virtual reality app maker Within. The FTC’s approach in that complaint could have implications for Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of...more
Digital marketing can do incredible things for your law firm. The downside is that everyone knows that by now. The online space is crowded with attorneys marketing their practice. So how can you increase your law firm’s...more
Takeaway: To ensure investor safety and emphasize a commitment to user privacy, corporate executives and similarly-situated high ranking officers must not provide any statements or omissions that affirmatively create a...more
Meta has reached a deal with federal authorities in which the Facebook parent will “adopt new online advertising practices” aimed at resolving allegations that its online ads “discriminated against users by race, gender and...more
Mit dem Urheberrechts-Diensteanbieter-Gesetz (UrhDaG) wird ein völlig neues Haftungsregime in Deutschland etabliert. In diesem Beitrag werfen wir nun einen näheren Blick auf die Voraussetzungen, unter denen Diensteanbieter...more
Wie ist der aktuelle Gesetzgebungsstand zum Urheberrecht? Spätestens seitdem das Bundeskabinett im Februar 2021 seinen Gesetzesentwurf zur Reform des Urheberrechts vorgestellt hat, dürfte die anstehende Reform auch...more
Ten years ago, the average person did not know what facial recognition was. Now, especially after its use in locating persons involved in the January 6, 2021, riots at the US Capitol, almost everyone knows its utility and...more
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
French regulators have held that the use of Google Analytics violates the GDPR, a decision that likely has broad implications for web analytics companies and website operators. On February 10, 2022, the French Data...more
In July 2020, the Schrems II decision issued and the European Commission’s adequacy decision for the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework was invalidated. Further, and broader than the invalidation of Privacy Shield adequacy...more
We know Zuck’s all in on the metaverse. And a decrease in Q4 profits and full-year accounting help us understand the monetary size of that commitment: some $10 billion in 2021, as Meta poured cash into its Reality Labs...more
Tuesday saw another Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde day on Wall Street, with markets diving to start the day before a late rally that petered out and left the Nasdaq down more than 2% and the S&P 500 down about half that...more
On October 21, 2021, the CFPB sent orders to Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, PayPal, and Square requiring them to provide information about their current and planned payments products, practices, and data collection and...more