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Advertisers online and on the frontline

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 6 2007

New York’s Attorney General has just settled actions against Priceline, Travelocity and Cingular Wireless for promoting products and services using “adware”the first time a law enforcement agency has held an advertiser responsible for ads displayed through adware

The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act: changes to the law on data protection, blasphemy and pornography

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 15 2008

In May 2008, the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act came into force in the UK

New cyber-policies in the marketplace

  • Lowenstein Sandler PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • July 23 2008

Most companies have either limited or no coverage for advertising-related claims, intellectual property infringement and invasion of privacy claims

AT&T says Google targeted ad conduct invades privacy

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • 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.”

MoD ordered to disclose staff information

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 16 2007

The Information Tribunal has agreed with the Information Commissioner that the Defence Export Services Organisation ("DESO") which is part of the MoD, must disclose their staff contacts directory to a Guardian newspaper journalist under the Freedom of Information Act ("FoI"

EU daily update: communications e-commerce data privacy - 141107

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • November 14 2007

Commission Decision of 16 October 2007 on the compatibility with Community law of measures taken by the United Kingdom pursuant to Article 3a(1) of Council Directive 89552EEC on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the pursuit of television broadcasting activities (OJ L 295 14 November 2007, p. 12

AEPD rules “refer-a-friend” viral marketing illegal

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • Spain
  • -
  • August 25 2008

On February 20, 2008, the Spanish Data Protection Authority (AEPD) imposed a fine on the company Iniciativas Virtuales for using viral marketing through its website

Automated program for playing virtual world game deemed copyright infringement

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • August 14 2008

In July 2008, a U.S. District Court in Arizona found on summary judgment that the use of an automated program to play a virtual world game constituted copyright infringement

Targeted advertising faces political and legal scrutiny

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 7 2008

As some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) roll toward implementing targeted advertising technologies, Congress and privacy advocates are pushing back

Online privacy, behavioral advertising discussed at Senate hearing

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 11 2008

In the wake of Charter Communications’ recent withdrawal from a controversial online advertising partnership with NebuAd, the Senate Commerce Committee conducted a hearing Wednesday on online privacy issues associated with the collection of data used to target ads to Internet subscribers

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