Socially Aware

February 07, 2013 - FTC, Privacy, Litigation
FTC Announces Important Settlement With Social Networking App and Releases New Mobile App Report
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
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February 07, 2013 - Privacy, Litigation
You Can’t Make a Square Peg Fit in a Round Hole: California Supreme Court Holds Online Purchases of Electronically Downloadable Products Outside Scope of Song-Beverly Act
By: Purvi G. Patel
Handing a victory to online retailers, on February 4, 2013, the California Supreme Court held in a split decision that online transactions involving electronically downloadable products fall outside the scope of the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act ( Apple v. Superior Court (Krescent), S199384 ).
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February 04, 2013 - Privacy, Financial Institutions
Watch What You Tweet: Proposed Social Media Guidance for Financial Institutions
By: Nathan D. Taylor and Julie O'Neill
With the explosive growth of social media, consumers increasingly expect to be able to interact online with the companies from which they buy goods and services. As a result, financial institutions have begun to explore the use of social media, both to strengthen relationships
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February 03, 2013 - Privacy, Employment Law, Litigation
Socially Aware Looks Back: The Social Media Law Year in Review
2012 was a momentous year for social media law. We’ve combed through the court decisions, the legislative initiatives, the regulatory actions and the corporate trends to identify what we believe to be the ten most significant social media law developments of the past year–here
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January 31, 2013 - Trademark, FTC, FCC, Terms of Use, Privacy, Employment Law, Section 230 Safe Harbor, Statistics, IP, Litigation
New Issue of the Socially Aware Newsletter Now Available
By: Aaron P. Rubin
In the latest issue of Socially Aware , our Burton Award-winning guide to the law and business of social media, we look at recent First Amendment, intellectual property, labor and privacy law developments affecting corporate users of social media and the Internet. We also
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January 23, 2013 - Trademark, Privacy, Copyright, IP, Litigation
Be Wary of Sharing: Anonymous P2P User’s Motion to Quash Subpoena Denied
By: J. Alexander Lawrence
BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing system that enables the quick downloading of large files, has sparked another novel controversy stemming from copyright-infringement claims brought against its users. Users take advantage of the BitTorrent sharing system to anonymously access popular media such as books and
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January 17, 2013 - Privacy, Litigation
Jailbreak: U.S. Google Executives’ Italian Convictions Overturned
On December 21, 2012, the third Milan appeals court acquitted three U.S.-based Google executives who had previously been convicted for breaches of Italian data protection law after Google failed to remove an abusive video from its Google Video site. The video, which showed schoolboys
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January 10, 2013 - FTC, Privacy
FTC Issues Substantially Revised COPPA Rule, Effective July 1, 2013: Review of Changes and Compliance Tips
By: Julie O'Neill
On December 19, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission (“Commission”) announced long-awaited amendments to its rule implementing the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“Rule”). The changes—which take effect on July 1, 2013—are significant. They alter the scope and obligations of the Rule in a number
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December 18, 2012 - FTC, Privacy
FTC Snuffs Out Online “History Sniffing”
By: Julie O'Neill
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has cracked down on a company that was engaged in “history sniffing,” a means of online tracking that digs up information embedded in web browsers to reveal the websites that users have visited. In a proposed settlement with Epic
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November 11, 2012 - FTC, Privacy
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
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
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Topic Archives: Privacy

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

You Can’t Make a Square Peg Fit in a Round Hole: California Supreme Court Holds Online Purchases of Electronically Downloadable Products Outside Scope of Song-Beverly Act

By: Purvi G. Patel

Watch What You Tweet: Proposed Social Media Guidance for Financial Institutions

By: Nathan D. Taylor and Julie O'Neill

Socially Aware Looks Back: The Social Media Law Year in Review

New Issue of the Socially Aware Newsletter Now Available

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Be Wary of Sharing: Anonymous P2P User’s Motion to Quash Subpoena Denied

By: J. Alexander Lawrence

Jailbreak: U.S. Google Executives’ Italian Convictions Overturned

FTC Issues Substantially Revised COPPA Rule, Effective July 1, 2013: Review of Changes and Compliance Tips

By: Julie O'Neill

FTC Snuffs Out Online “History Sniffing”

By: Julie O'Neill

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