Facebook to require mobile software application privacy policies *

USA - June 27 2012
Like other software application platforms before it, Facebook has signed on to a deal with California requiring its mobile software application developers to provide users with conspicuous links to posted privacy policies if their software applications gather personal data from users.

Co-authors: Barry M. Benjamin.

California attorney general and mobile platform providers agree to require mobile software application developers to implement privacy policies *

USA - February 29 2012
On February 22, California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced a privacy agreement concerning mobile software applications with the six largest mobile application platform providers — Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Hewlett-Packard and Research In Motion.

Co-authors: Christina M. Gattuso, Barry M. Benjamin, Stephen Feingold, J. Henry Walker IV.

Settlement reached in flash cookie class action defendants agree to push for self-regulatory *

USA - December 20 2010
As we described in a prior Alert, the online marketing/behavioral advertising technique of installing Adobe's "Flash cookies" in user's computers to assist with targeted Internet advertising has attracted the attention of legislators as well as class action lawyers.

Co-authors: Barry M. Benjamin, Stephen Feingold, Michael J. Breslin , James R. Paine Jr., J. Henry Walker IV.

U.S. Supreme Court evenly divided on whether Copyright Act prohibits importation of gray market goods manufactured abroad *

USA - December 17 2010
International brand owners, take note.

Co-authors: Lisa Pearson, James A. Trigg, Stephen Feingold.