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Companies must prepare for data theft

  • Vedder Price PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • January 8 2008

The need for companies to have a predetermined plan in place in the event of grand-scale data theft has been highlighted by recent events

En banc Sixth Circuit vacates Warshak

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • USA
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  • August 1 2008

Our August 2007 issue reported on the ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that individuals have a reasonable expectation of privacy, protected by the Fourth Amendment, in the contents of emails stored by an Internet service provider

FTC staff proposes online behavioral advertising privacy principles

  • Venable LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 13 2008

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”) announced on December 20, 2007 a staff proposal regarding online behavioral advertising privacy principles

Privacy regulators closing in on online tracking

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • February 6 2008

Privacy concerns pose an increasing threat to ubiquitous online tracking practices that underpin many commercial successes on the web

Congressional outlook for 2008 on privacy and marketing-related legislation

  • Venable LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 13 2008

Congress has reconvened for the second year of the 110th Congress and the final year of the eight-year Bush presidency

Google yields to EU pressure; EU probe expands

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • July 2 2007

On May 16, a European Union advisory panel of data protection authorities (DPAs) sent Google a letter informing the company that its data retention policies may violate European Union privacy law

Life is good but its security was not

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 6 2008

Popular retailer Life is good became the latest target of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) information security enforcement action, following a hacking incident affecting credit cards collected on the company's website

Are kids playing it safe online?

  • Duane Morris LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • July 20 2007

Some people believe teenagers are reckless about the way they protect their private information on the Internet

Sixth Circuit decision extends privacy expectation to e-mail

  • Vedder Price PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • August 31 2007

A recent decision by the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit involving warrantless searches and seizures and commercial Internet Service Providers (“ISPs”) has expanded the degree of privacy e-mail users should expect with regard to their e-mail messages

AT&T says Google targeted ad conduct invades privacy

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • USA
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  • August 15 2008

In response to a request from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, AT&T asserted that targeted advertising practices used by Google threaten privacy as advertising network operators that include the search engine giant “have evolved beyond merely tracking consumer web surfing activity on sites for which they have a direct ad-serving relationship.”