Socially Aware

May 13, 2016 - First Amendment, Protected Speech, Live streaming, Marketing, Privacy, Statistics
Social Links—Instagram’s logo change causes a stir; stats on social media use at work; lessons from a YouTube star.
By: Aaron P. Rubin
The Great Instagram Logo Freakout of 2016. A UK council policy reportedly grants its members power to spy on residents by setting up fake Facebook profiles. Guess who spends more of their workday on social media , women or men? Lessons from one of
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April 15, 2016 - First Amendment, Marketing, Big Data, Litigation
Social Links: A social media marketing fail; Facebook and prisoners, jurors, older people
By: Aaron P. Rubin
We’re trying something new here at Socially Aware : In addition to our usual social-media and tech-law analyses and updates, we’re going to end each work week with a list of links to interesting social media stories around the Web, primarily things that caught
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September 08, 2015 - First Amendment, Litigation
Federal District Court Strikes Down Law That Bans Ballot Selfies
By: Aaron P. Rubin
The U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire recently struck down on First Amendment grounds a 2014 amendment to New Hampshire Revised Statute 659:35 that made it illegal for New Hampshire voters to post pictures of their completed ballots to social media.
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August 31, 2015 - First Amendment, Terms of Use, Cyberbullying
The Top Social Media Platforms’ Efforts To Control Cyber-Harassment
By: Aaron P. Rubin
Social networking platforms have long faced the difficult task of balancing the desire to promote freedom of expression with the need to prevent abuse and harassment on their sites. One of social media’s greatest challenges is to make platforms safe enough so users are
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August 27, 2015 - First Amendment, Status Updates, Cyberbullying, Marketing, Defamation, Section 230 Safe Harbor
Status Updates: Appeals court upholds anti-cyberbullying law; better marketing through neural networks; restaurant owner turns the tables on Yelp critic
Positive I.D. The tech world recently took a giant step forward in the quest to create computers that accurately mimic human sensory and thought processes, thanks to Fei-Fei Li and Andrej Karpathy of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The pair developed a program that
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August 10, 2015 - First Amendment, Online Reviews, Litigation
Washington State Court Refuses to Unmask Anonymous Online Reviewer
By: Aaron P. Rubin
In a precedent-setting ruling, the Washington Court of Appeals in Thomson v. Doe refused to grant a motion to compel brought by a defamation plaintiff who had subpoenaed the lawyer-review site Avvo.com seeking the identity of an anonymous online reviewer, holding that, for a
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July 28, 2015 - Internet of Things, Trademark, FTC, Live streaming, Cloud Computing, Copyright, IP, First Amendment, Bankruptcy, Privacy, Infographic, Online Reviews, Wearable Computers
Hot Off the Press: The July/August Issue of Our Socially Aware Newsletter Is Now Available
By: Aaron P. Rubin
The latest issue of our Socially Aware newsletter is now available here. In this issue of Socially Aware , our Burton Award -winning guide to the law and business of social media, we present a “grand unifying theory” of today’s leading technologies and the
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July 22, 2015 - First Amendment, Status Updates
Status Updates: AZ’s anti-revenge-porn law scrapped; civil rights claim against blogging prosecutor dismissed; Match buys PlentyOfFish
By: Aaron P. Rubin
There oughta be a law? As we’ve reported previously, states all around the country have enacted laws that criminalize the posting of revenge porn—nude photographs published without the subject’s consent, often by an ex-lover seeking retribution. To avoid running afoul of the First Amendment,
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May 28, 2015 - First Amendment, Status Updates, Privacy
Status Updates: A Right To Be Forgotten Update; Errand Apps for Everyone?; Your Entire Google Search History
By: Aaron P. Rubin
Lest we forget. Established a year ago this month by a European Court of Justice decision , the right to be forgotten requires search engines like Google to comply with an individual’s request to remove “inadequate, irrelevant,” or “excessive” links that appear in search
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May 15, 2015 - First Amendment, Internet of Things, DMCA, FTC, Terms of Use, Privacy, Copyright, Infographic, IP
Hot Off the Press: The May Issue of Our Socially Aware Newsletter Is Now Available
By: Aaron P. Rubin
The latest issue of our Socially Aware newsletter is now available here. In this issue of Socially Aware , our Burton Award -winning guide to the law and business of social media, we discuss a recent decision in Virginia protecting the anonymity of Yelp
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Topic Archives: First Amendment

Social Links—Instagram’s logo change causes a stir; stats on social media use at work; lessons from a YouTube star.

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Social Links: A social media marketing fail; Facebook and prisoners, jurors, older people

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Federal District Court Strikes Down Law That Bans Ballot Selfies

By: Aaron P. Rubin

The Top Social Media Platforms’ Efforts To Control Cyber-Harassment

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Status Updates: Appeals court upholds anti-cyberbullying law; better marketing through neural networks; restaurant owner turns the tables on Yelp critic

Washington State Court Refuses to Unmask Anonymous Online Reviewer

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Hot Off the Press: The July/August Issue of Our Socially Aware Newsletter Is Now Available

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Status Updates: AZ’s anti-revenge-porn law scrapped; civil rights claim against blogging prosecutor dismissed; Match buys PlentyOfFish

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Status Updates: A Right To Be Forgotten Update; Errand Apps for Everyone?; Your Entire Google Search History

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Hot Off the Press: The May Issue of Our Socially Aware Newsletter Is Now Available

By: Aaron P. Rubin