The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 11: Signal and Noise: The New Administration, Privacy, and Our Digital Rights with Cindy Cohn of Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 39 - Unthreading the Silk Road: A Conversation With Author Nick Bilton
Hosted Payload Episode 8: Priya Venkat / A Million Miles Away
JONES DAY PRESENTS®: Section 230: A Springboard to a First Amendment Discussion
Terry Comer and a Vision for Data Centers and Digital Equity - TAG Infrastructure Talks Podcast
All About Web3: The Regulatory Outlook for Cryptocurrency
[Podcast] Broadband and Beyond: A Conversation with NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson
DE Under 3: New WIR Reporter; Nomination for New EEOC General Counsel; ODEP “Disability & the Digital Divide” Report
Podcast: The Briefing by the IP Law Blog - Can Copyrighted Music Keep Vids of Police Encounters Off The Internet?
The Briefing by the IP Law Blog: Can Copyrighted Music Keep Vids of Police Encounters Off The Internet?
E-Sports: What You Should Know About the Industry
The Promise of Connectivity: A Conversation with USTelecom President & CEO Jonathan Spalter
Digital Planning Podcast - Interview With Leeza Garber
Nota Bene Episode 91: China Q3 Check In - Trade Wars, GDP Growth, Pandemic Comparatives, and Hong Kong with Michael Zhang
What Can I Do If My Reputation Has Been Trashed Online?
Investment Management Roundtable Discussion – Internet 3.0: Decentralize Everything
Jones Day Presents: What General Counsel Need to Know about Blockchain
E18: ICANN Loses First GDPR Court Ruling in Germany
Impact of the Internet of Things on the Insurance Industry
The Latest with the FCC's Open Internet Order
Businesses just received some good news when a federal court dismissed a California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) claim that aimed to expand the reach of the state’s wiretapping law to cover internet communications. The...more
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On January 11, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would fortify the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). This move underscores a significant shift in the...more
For the past two years, hundreds of class action lawsuits alleging violations of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) have plagued California retailers and consumer-facing service providers. These lawsuits claim,...more
On October 24, 2023, a bipartisan coalition of 33 states’ attorneys general filed suit against Meta Platforms, Inc., alleging in a lengthy complaint that Meta’s social media platform features are unsafe and designed to induce...more
The UK is reportedly considering legislation that would impose a ‘duty of care’ on social media companies to regulate harmful content on their platforms. This push for an online safety bill was triggered by the high-profile...more
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The Supreme Court granted certiorari in Gonzalez v. Google, a high-stakes case appealed from the Ninth Circuit about the scope of protection Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act affords technology companies against...more
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Over the last several weeks, a variety of major retailers, restaurant groups, pharmacies and other merchants have been hit with a deluge of putative class action lawsuits alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities...more
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
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
As we have frequently noted on Socially Aware, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects social media sites and other online platforms from liability for user-generated content. Sometimes referred to as “the law...more
Often hailed as the law that gave us the modern Internet, Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act generally protects online platforms from liability for content posted by third parties. Many commentators, including us...more
As Congress considers repealing a certain type of statutory immunity for web hosts, a federal appeals court handed Google a victory under the same law. The timing of these events may portend an uncertain future of the...more
ADA Title III Litigation Continues to Increase - Over the last two years, there have been an increasing number of lawsuits filed over the alleged failure of websites to accommodate persons with disabilities. According to a...more
At the beginning of this year, internet companies found strengthened protection from liability for users’ sexual trafficking content thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision not to review a key First Circuit decision...more
In a post published earlier this year, we commented on a surge of lawsuits being filed under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). Title III of the ADA prohibits discrimination in the full and free...more
On March 20, 2017, a federal district judge in the Central District of California issued a big win for businesses dealing with the recent onslaught of website accessibility litigation – claims that a business’s website is not...more
2016 has been a tough year for a lot of reasons, most of which are outside the scope of this blog (though if you’d like to hear our thoughts about Bowie, Prince or Leonard Cohen, feel free to drop us a line). But one possible...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has entered into a multimillion dollar settlement with the owners and operators of AshleyMadison.com, a dating website for people interested in having discreet affairs, related to the...more
A recent California court decision involving Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) is creating considerable concern among social media companies and other website operators....more
We previously reported that hackers The Impact Team had posted legitimate detailed information about 36 million adultery website Ashley Madison users. In the wake of the shocking posting of the data last week, two class...more