Social Media, Smartphones

How Are the World’s Most Disruptive Technologies Faring in the Fight Against the World’s Most Disruptive Virus?

Perkins Coie on 4/14/2020

Over the last decade, we have heard a lot about artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, blockchain, and other disruptive digital technologies and how they are transforming the world. With the current coronavirus...more

Financial Daily Dose 1.30.2020 | Top Story: Facebook Pays $550 Million to Resolve Privacy Class Action Over Use of Facial...

Robins Kaplan LLP on 1/30/2020

Facebook has agreed to pay $550 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit claiming that Zuck & Co.’s use of facial recognition technology violated Illinois’ biometric privacy law. Though the settlement is little more than “a...more

Cases Involving Emoticons As Evidence Are On The Rise

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 3/1/2019

Approximately, one year ago, I authored a blog about emoticons finding their way into the courtroom as purported evidence of a crime or tort (Texter Beware: Emojis as Evidence). Although emoticons began appearing in court...more

Don’t Let Technology Run Away With Your Customer Information

Payne & Fears on 7/11/2018

For many companies, customer information ranks among its most important assets. Yet these days, employees often keep this sensitive customer information in electronic locations that are not readily accessible to or controlled...more

Privacy Tip #131 – Bryant University Women’s Summit Follow-Up

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 3/22/2018

I was so honored to be a presenter at the Bryant Women’s Summit last week. It is always an incredible event and I enjoy attending every year. ...more

Privacy Tip #74 – What to Do About Customs and Border Patrol

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 2/20/2017

There has been lots of talk about the ripple effects of the Trump travel ban. But here’s a new twist I hadn’t heard before—U.S. Customs and Border Control (CBP) agents are detaining U.S. citizens and requiring them to unlock...more

ICSC Mid-Atlantic Conference & Deal Making Recap

Goulston & Storrs PC on 2/15/2017

With seemingly all of the country’s attention focused on Washington DC lately, we snuck out of the District and across the Potomac River to National Harbor last week for ICSC’s 2017 Mid-Atlantic Conference and Deal Making....more

Digital Emotions: The Evidentiary Impact of Emoticons and Emojis

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 2/19/2016

When computer science professor Scott Fahlman posted a sideways smiley face on an electronic message board at Carnegie Mellon University in 1982, he could not possibly have known that combination of dots and dashes would give...more

Choosing The Right Entertainment Industry Work Visa

Carlton Fields on 10/30/2015

As smartphone recording capabilities and the popularity of social media help entertainers reach wider audiences around the world, entertainers who wish to come to the United States to perform are, paradoxically, finding it...more

Social Media Week Part V – Tools and Apps for the Compliance Practitioner

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 8/7/2015

To conclude this week’s posts, I wanted to list some of the more prevalent social media tools, explain what they are and how you might use them in a compliance program. (As usual I got carried away so this series will...more

Social Media Week Part IV – Telling a Story About Honey

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 8/6/2015

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

HR Has More Important Things To Do

Zelle LLP on 7/24/2015

On Tuesday, Salon published an article titled “5 Ways Corporate HR Departments Monitor Your Movements – Even When You’re Not Working.” Because we’re always interested in the subject of employee monitoring, we eagerly clicked...more

Manatt Digital Media - July 2015

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 7/22/2015

In this edition, we reflect upon the key digital media events of the first half of 2015 and present the major deals, developments and trends across video, music, gaming and virtual reality....more

Status Updates: Driving while social; a small country’s Facebook ban; and Pinterest’s new purchasing feature

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media on 7/10/2015

Driven to distraction. A frightening number of people are interacting with social media when they should be watching the road. As part of a public service campaign to stop distracted driving, the phone company AT&T recently...more

The Ever-Expanding Scope of Social Media Discovery

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 5/5/2015

Social media discovery is now commonplace within civil litigation, with Facebook continuing to be a primary source of potentially-discoverable information. As technology continues to advance, though, the judicial system is...more

Emergence of Live Streaming Apps Brings Up Copyright, Privacy, Legal Concerns

Proskauer - New Media & Technology on 5/5/2015

The big fight may be over, but the implications of Mayweather vs. Pacquiao with respect to real-time, one-to-many streaming of video through apps like Meerkat and Periscope are still rippling through the media industry. In...more

Manatt Digital Media - January 2015

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 1/21/2015

Welcome to MDM Newsletter #5—and to an entirely new year of Digital Media machinations. What better way to start the year than first recapping the last one—then predicting major themes for 2015—and then ending things up with...more

Bring Your Own Device Programs and Health Care: Too Risky to Work? - Scripts - News for the Health Care Community

Poyner Spruill LLP on 7/10/2013

Recent workplace surveys report that as many as 87% of employees use personal electronic devices for work, raising compliance, data loss, and security risks for their employers. As a result, designing a workable...more

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