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SEC issues guidance on company use of social media: implications for Canadian reporting issuers

  • Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • April 8 2013

On April 2, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a report of investigation (the Report), which clarifies that companies may use

Growing concerns over online privacy lead to class action lawsuits against Instagram, Facebook and Google

  • Davis LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • March 7 2013

In addition to email, social networking websites (such as Facebook, MySpace, Google, Twitter, and LinkedIn) have become the established norm for

Social media update: are your employees doing “The Harlem Shake”?

  • Rubin Thomlinson LLP
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  • Australia, Canada, USA
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  • March 4 2013

Employers will no doubt concede that social media is ubiquitous, and is beginning to permeate the boundary between personal life and professional

Social media, disclosure and securities regulation

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • February 25 2013

On July 3, 2012, the Chief Executive Officer of Netflix Inc. did what many of us frequently do; updated his Facebook account. However, he updated his

Children’s online privacy protection: U.S. developments compared to Canada

  • Dentons
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  • Canada, USA
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  • January 2 2013

On December 10, 2012, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a Staff Report entitled“Mobile Apps for Kids: Disclosures Still Not Making the

Are you compliant? Online behavioural advertising in Canada, the U.S., and Europe

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada, European Union, USA
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  • December 29 2012

Online behavioural advertising (OBA) has become a hot topic for social media and Internet advertisers over the last few years, and compliance with both legal and self-regulatory regimes has never been more important

Peer to peer (P2P) legislation

  • Abril Abogados
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  • Canada, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 13 2012

Since 2006, when the first European Regulation against illegal downloading was enacted by Finland, most of EU Member States have followed the example

Social media & employees: when every little thing is searchable

  • Dentons
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  • Canada, USA
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  • December 9 2012

The scope of an employer’s right to discipline and terminate an employee for indiscreet or inappropriate remarks in social media is far from settled

Crackdown on internet cons

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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  • Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
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  • October 4 2012

The New York Times reported that a number of governments have banded together to combat Internet con artists

The global employer: the social media issue

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom, USA
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  • September 25 2012

Social media is changing the way that we communicate, work and do business, wherever we are in the world