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FTC Announces Important Settlement With Social Networking App and Releases New Mobile App Report

By Reed Freeman and Nicholas Datlowe on February 7th, 2013 Posted in FTC, Litigation, Privacy

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a potentially groundbreaking settlement with the social networking app Path and released an important new staff report on Mobile Privacy Disclosures late last week. The FTC’s Settlement with Path suggests a new standard may be on the near-term horizon: out-of-policy, just-in-time notice and express consent for the collection of… Continue Reading

California A.G. Makes Good on Promise to Pursue Apps That Don’t Comply With the State’s Privacy Policy Law

By Julie O'Neill and Matthew Galeotti on November 12th, 2012 Posted in FTC, Privacy

On October 30, 2012, California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced that her office would begin notifying the developers of as many as 100 mobile apps that their apps do not comply with the state’s Online Privacy Protection Act (OPPA) and that they have 30 days to bring them into compliance. The announcement does not come… Continue Reading

Editor’s Predictions for 2012

By John Delaney, Gabriel Meister and Aaron Rubin on January 7th, 2012 Posted in Employment Law, IP, Privacy, Terms of Use

To ring in the New Year, the Socially Aware editors provide their predictions regarding social media law and business developments in the coming year (please keep in mind that, if we were good at this prediction thing, we wouldn’t be practicing law for a living) . . . Watch for an explosion of employment law… Continue Reading