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Federal Trade Commission takes first action under US-EU Safe Harbor Privacy Framework

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 28 2009

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has taken its first enforcement action pursuant to the US-EU Safe Harbor Privacy Framework (Safe Harbor

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

Court ruling extends privacy protection to subscriber data

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 28 2008

The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled this week that, under the New Jersey Constitution, citizens have an expectation of privacy in subscriber data provided to Internet Service Providers (“ISP”

FACT or fiction? FACT Act account number truncation requirement applies to electronic receipts

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 4 2008

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida agreed with a consumer that an online retailer’s provision of an electronic receipt that included the full credit card expiration date violated Section 113 of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACT Act) (15 U.S.C. 1681c(g)), and thus did not grant the retailer’s motion to dismiss

Google challenges NSL

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 6 2013

On the heels of the district court's decision, Google reportedly filed suit in the same court (pursuant to 18 USC 3511) to set aside or modify

Malware threatens consumer privacy, as well as media companies and their reputations

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
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  • October 9 2009

Malware is being deployed at alarming rates through unknowing online content providers and media and advertising companies

Terms of use creates valid contract - Attorney General’s claims against adware vendor dismissed

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 4 2008

A New York trial court relied in large part on an online End User License Agreement (EULA) to dismiss the New York Attorney General’s deceptive and illegal business practices case against Direct Revenue, a distributor of a downloadable adware

Facebook settles privacy lawsuit for $9.5 million

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 21 2009

Facebook recently settled a class action lawsuit filed in California against its Beacon program

Court rules for ISP in deep packet inspection lawsuit

  • Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 7 2013

A few years back, the use of deep packet inspection software - software that examines individual data packets in a broadband transmission - to deliver

Standing challenges on the rise

  • Haynes and Boone LLP
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  • USA
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  • January 28 2013

"Cookies" used to mean only a dessert. A "thread" used to refer only to a thin sewing yarn. Like with the technology industry, the legal industry