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Punishing hackers even when they do no damage

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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USA
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December 29 2012

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has held, in Chadha v. Chopra, that a party suing under the Stored Communications Act (SCA

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

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

Judge “likes” Facebook settlement terms

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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USA
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December 15 2012

Facebook is finally distributing some wealth back to its users - but only because it is being forced to. Facebook users, whose names and photographs were

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

Will Pennsylvania shut down the free internet?

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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USA
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December 8 2012

A Hotmail user in Pennsylvania has brought a class action against Google (Brinkman v. Google, Inc.) alleging that its interception of non-Gmail users’ communications with Gmail users violates Pennsylvania’s wiretap statute

Wifi moocher not protected by fourth amendment

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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USA
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December 1 2012

A federal district court has ruled, in U.S. v. Stanley, that a police officer did not violate the Fourth Amendment when he used software to trace the wireless signal emitted from an Internet user’s computer to obtain his location

Eat and drink all you want during the holidays and still lose weight!

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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USA
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November 24 2012

Two companies -- Clickbooth.com, LLC and IntegraClick, LLC, together with the CEO of both companies, John Daniel Lemp -- have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they marketed weight-loss supplements on behalf of merchants by engaging affiliate marketers to advertise the supplements on fake news websites, providing links to fake investigative reports in the websites, and charging consumers for their “free trial” if they did not affirmatively cancel within that period

UAE issues new cybercrime decree

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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United Arab Emirates
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November 24 2012

The United Arab Emirates has amended and expanded its cybercrime legal framework

California slaps apps

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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USA
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November 10 2012

California Attorney General Kamala Harris last month began notifying companies that make and sell up to 100 different apps that they are not complying with the California Online Privacy Protection Act

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