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Exploitation of Publicly Available Website Data May be Unstoppable

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Data scraping is a technique by which automated tools are used to extract data from a website and format the data for analysis. Many companies mine website users’ publicly accessible data in order to tailor products and...more

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UK Government Launches ‘Smart Data’ Proposals as Data-Portability Agenda Intensifies

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The proposals would grant consumers increasing rights to require providers to share access to their data directly with chosen third parties. The UK government has released a consultation advocating the introduction of...more

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California and European Privacy FAQs: Can a business share its marketing list with social media platforms in order to target...

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The California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") was enacted in early 2018 as a political compromise to stave off a poorly drafted, and plaintiff’s friendly ballot initiative. Although the CCPA is scheduled to go into force in...more

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Judge Facciola Says Carpenter Decision May Signal the End of the Third Party Doctrine

The Carpenter decision has been the focus of many discussions since it came down last week. In a closely watched case, a 5-4 SCOTUS ruled that police access to a person’s historical cell phone tower site records (7 days or...more

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Anonymous Poster of Defamation Unmasked

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Anonymity on the Internet has encouraged some to feel they live in a culture that feels no responsibility for what might be posted and where there may be no consequences for what one posts. That is, however, not the case as...more

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Establishing the Boundaries of the OCILLA Safe Harbor

As user-generated content explodes over the Internet, intellectual property disputes over posting or uploading such content without the owner’s consent continue to escalate. As we touched on in a recent post, social media...more

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Eight Key Takeaways from FTC's Settlement with Snapchat

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Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with Snapchat, the young mobile messaging company. The complaint alleges misrepresentations about functionality and related security as well as privacy...more

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FTC Issues Recommendations on Mobile Data Disclosures, Urges Mobile Industry To Act

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Data use and sharing disclosures on mobile devices need work, the FTC said in a staff report released last week. The report recommends ways that actors in the mobile marketplace—such as mobile operating system providers,...more

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