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Ankura CTIX FLASH Update - December 2023

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Malicious Android Apps Used to Target Iranian Banks - An ongoing Android malware campaign targeting users of Iranian financial institutions has expanded to include new abilities to target an even greater number of people...more

Carlton Fields

Rough Waters in the Expert “Hot Tub” - Court Throws Class Expert Overboard in Google Play Store Litigation

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One notable opportunity associated with antitrust class action practice is the expert “hot tub,” which generally speaking is an in-court, on-the-record “debate” between dueling economists, with the court, parties, and experts...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Clubhouse Faces Steep Challenges In Spite Of New Features And Expanded Access

Clubhouse, the former invitation-only social media darling that captured the attention of investors, social media early adopters, and competitors since its introduction in April 2020, now faces significant challenges as it...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Time to Update Your Privacy Disclosure Creation Checklists? Google Will Add to Mobile Privacy Disclosure Requirements

Google recently announced that beginning next year it will require Android mobile apps to provide privacy disclosures. These disclosures will live in a new “safety section” in Google Play...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 9.29.2020 | Top Story: House Unveils New $2.2T Covid Stimulus Bill

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House leaders are out with a new Covid stimulus effort—slimmed down from earlier packages but, at $2.2 trillion, a sizeable proposal that they say “is needed to support American households and businesses still experiencing...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Privacy Concerns Multiply as Digital Contact Tracing Spreads: U.S. Tech Industry Takes the Lead as Congress Fails to Act

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As businesses and other organizations in the private sector cautiously open their doors in the wake of the pandemic, DCT enables more efficient tracing of infected employees and notification to those at-risk. DCT also offers...more

Lowndes

Google and Apple Have Agreed to Track You for the Good of Us All

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In an effort to battle COVID-19, Google and Apple have announced an agreement to roll-out an API (essentially a software platform on which to develop an application or “App”) to allow the creation of Apps that can track...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

New Malware Targets Big Banks and Cryptocurrency Apps

New malicious malware dubbed “Gustuff” targets big banks, fintech companies and cryptocurrency apps, according to the security firm Group IB....more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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The US and China have scheduled two more rounds of high-level trade talks with hopes for an agreement between the economic superpowers by late April, even as China has begun to push back against some of the US’s major...more

Dechert LLP

Third-Party Data Collection and Consent in Mobile Applications

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Recent legislative hearings in the United States and Europe have focused on the means by which large third-party data collectors track individuals via websites. Regulators have paid comparatively little attention to the...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Consumer Groups Call for FTC Investigation of Android Apps

Citing a new study, a group of consumer organizations told the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a letter that the agency should investigate the marketing of Android apps to children....more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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In order to comply with European antitrust rulings against it earlier this year, Google announced that for the first time it will begin charging telephone handset manufacturers to install Gmail, Google Maps, and other popular...more

Foster Garvey PC

OTA & Travel Distribution Update - ETTSA challenges European Commission's failure to act; the European Union issues formal warning...

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This week’s Update is heavily focused on the EU and its recent enforcement activities....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy TIp #86 - Android Users Vulnerable to Malware through Apps

University of Michigan researchers have discovered that hundreds of applications in Google Play turn Android phones into a server that allow the user to connect the phone directly to a PC and leave open insecure ports...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

FTC settles case against Vulcun for installing apps on users’ phones without permission

On February 5, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it has agreed to settle its case against Vulcun alleging that it “unfairly replaced a popular web browser game with a program that installed applications...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Advertising Law - November 2015 #4

Sharing Is Caring? New Report Documents Apps Sharing User Data at High Rates - A new report has revealed that Apple and Android apps share information with third parties at high rates. Testing 55 of the most popular...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

What App Users Care About When Sharing Personal Data: Permissions

The latest Pew Research Center Report relayed useful information regarding application users’ concerns with sharing personal data. Ninety percent of app users indicated that how their personal data will be used is “very” or...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Important Circuit Court Ruling Limits Scope of VPPA Liability

The Eleventh Circuit issued a notable ruling this week limiting a mobile app’s liability under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), 18 U.S.C. § 2710, a law enacted in 1988 to preserve “consumer” personal privacy with...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay: Where’s Your Wallet?

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Last week Samsung launched its mobile payments app to compete with ApplePay and Android Pay, with much anticipation among technology bloggers. A few Technorati rushed to try the application so they could compare and contrast...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Android smartphones Stagefright engine vulnerable

It is being reported that 95% of all Android smartphones are vulnerable to being hacked with a text message, which is being called the “heartbleed for mobile.” According to security experts, the vulnerability exploits the...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Social Media Week Part IV – Telling a Story About Honey

I continue my exploration of the use of social media in doing compliance by taking a look at a very innovative social media solution to a difficult compliance issue around, of all things, honey. This example shows how...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Common Flaws in Computer Fraud Class Actions: Lawsuits claiming unauthorized use of smartphone tracking technology are lacking key...

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A number of class actions have recently been filed in federal district courts, predicated, in part, on alleged violations of the federal computer crime statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, complaining of tracking...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Unauthorized Children’s In-App Purchases Round Two: Google Faces Class Action

Just two months after Apple’s settlement with the FTC over lax parental controls over children’s in-app purchases, Google takes the spotlight with claims of unauthorized children’s in-app purchases in the Google Play Store!...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

FTC Expands Reach on Conspicuousness of Privacy Disclosures in Settlement with Android Flashlight App

An FTC settlement with a mobile app over its privacy disclosures alleged to be deceptive may seem to be run-of-the-mill. After all, the FTC has been settling cases for years with companies whose data collection and use...more

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