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Everyone's nightmare: privacy and data breach risks

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Global, USA
  • -
  • May 22 2013

The rapid growth of information in electronim form has resulted in a concomitant exposure of companies to risks and liabilities arising from the

Online behavioral advertisingtracking litigation: a rising risk facing insurers and insureds

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 9 2012

2012 began with over 100 pending consumer class actions alleging various companies’ improper tracking of customer and other users’ behavior online and via mobile devices

Federal scrutiny of evolving media practices continues to evolve

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 23 2011

The Federal government, so far as online advertising, privacy and data security practices are concerned, roared into March 2011 like a lion, but hardly left like a lamb

FTC clarifies new federal privacy rules that affect companies targeting kids, adults and a mix of kids and adults, but questions remain

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 25 2013

The FTC staff has issued guidance to its January 2013 updates to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) regulations (COPPA Rule), which

Customers can resell copies of downloaded software; developers can try to stop them

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • July 4 2012

Yesterday, 3 July 2012, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled in UsedSoft v. Oracle that online purchasers of software may resell copies of their downloads provided that they render the original download usable

New COPPA rule broadens and clarifies children’s privacy obligations of online and mobile companies, but backtracks on many previously proposed changes that would have disrupted the advertising and publishing industries

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 19 2012

The FTC has ended a two-year long process of revising the rules implementing the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA Rule), which is now a decade old and set to expire in 2014

Two potential class actions filed against Facebook

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 10 2010

In the last week of May, two potential class actions were filed against Facebook in California federal district court

FTC sends message to mobile app developers regarding privacy policies

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 18 2011

FTC announced on August 15 that it has reached a settlement with W3 Innovations, LLC, a small start-up mobile app developer doing business as "Broken Thumbs Apps"

Europe prepares for e-commerce overhaul - the digital single market’s call for change

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • September 6 2011

In late September 2011, the European Commission is expected to announce changes to the e-commerce regulatory environment in Europe

Cybersecurity policy and legislation in the 112th Congress

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 20 2011

For more than a decade, addressing vulnerabilities in our nation’s cybersecurity has been a policy priority for the executive and legislative branches of our government

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