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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but carrots can never hurt me

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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USA
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July 21 2012

Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) last Thursday introduced in the Senate a revised version of the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, which, in Lieberman’s words, now relies on “incentives rather than mandatory regulations to strengthen America’s cybersecurity.”

FTC fires warning shots over children’s online privacy

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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USA
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May 18 2013

The Federal Trade Commission continues to ramp up its campaign to protect children's privacy. In January, the FTC published its amended rule

Online ad companies update self-regulatory code

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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USA
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May 18 2013

The Network Advertising Initiative, a coalition of online advertising companies (including AOL, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!) has updated its rules

Privacy: there’d better be an app for That

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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USA
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December 22 2012

App makers who did not heed California Attorney General Kamala Harris's warning that they needed to have a privacy policy accessible from the app should

Court makes it easier to unmask online posters of commercial speech

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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USA
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July 31 2010

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled in Quixtar, Inc. v. Signature Management TEAM, LLC, that that the Cahill summary judgment standard -- which requires a plaintiff to make out a prima facie case before a court will compel discovery of an anonymous individual's identity, and to try to notify that individual of the attempted unmasking -- is a bar too high when it comes to commercial speech

FTC sniffs out deception by online advertiser

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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USA
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December 15 2012

Epic Marketplace, Inc. has agreed to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission that it deceived consumers by misrepresenting its online data

FTC not kidding around with online privacy

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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USA
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December 22 2012

After years of proposed rules and hundreds of comments, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finally issued its amended rule implementing the Children's

California Credit Card Act does not cover internet downloads

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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USA
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February 23 2013

According to the California Supreme Court, when California enacted the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act of 1991 to protect consumers' personal

Netflix settles suit over retention of personal information

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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USA
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July 19 2012

A federal judge has granted preliminary approval in In Re: Netflix Privacy Litigation to the proposed settlement of a class action suit alleging that Netflix violated the Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”) by unlawfully retaining and disclosing the viewing histories and personal information of thousands of its customers

Bank's "commercially unreasonable" security practices to blame for cyber theft

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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USA
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July 21 2012

The First Circuit earlier this month held that a bank could be liable for the theft of nearly $600,000 from a company’s bank account because the bank’s online security systems were not “commercially reasonable” under the Uniform Commercial Code