The Law and Business of Social Media
February 08, 2017 - Data Security, UK, Section 230 Safe Harbor, Compliance, Litigation

Now Available: The February Issue of Our Socially Aware Newsletter

Now Available: The February Issue of Our Socially Aware Newsletter

The latest issue of our Socially Aware newsletter is now available here.

In this edition,we examine a spate of court decisions that appear to rein in the historically broad scope of the Communications Decency Act’s Section 230 safe harbor for website operators; we outline ten steps companies can take to be better prepared for a security breach incident; we describe the implications of the Second Circuit’s recent opinion in Microsoft v. United States regarding the U.S. government’s efforts to require Microsoft to produce email messages stored outside the country; we explore the EU’s draft regulation prohibiting geo-blocking; and we take a look at UK Consumer Protection regulators’ efforts to combat undisclosed endorsements on social media.

All this—plus an infographic highlighting the most popular social-media-post topics in 2016.

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