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Still more Sony Playstation data breach class actions reported, but payouts remain doubtful

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 12 2011

Reuters reports that there are now at least 25 separate class actions pending against Sony in connection with the theft of PlayStation Network ("PSN") customer data

More breach problems for Sony......

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 3 2011

Yesterday, in a Customer Service Notification posted on its website, Sony Online Entertainment LLC ("SOE") based in San Diego, California revealed that its systems were also the subject of a hacking attack

Let the litigation begin - Sony Playstation data breach class action filed in Boston

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 9 2011

With the inevitability of death and taxes, data breaches spawn class action lawsuits

FTC: Facebook “deceived” consumers by failing to keep privacy promises

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 1 2011

“Facebook is obligated to keep the promises about privacy that it makes to its hundreds of millions of users” Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz

Brazilian council intends to take action against advertisers

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Brazil
  • -
  • July 31 2011

The Brazilian Council of Self-Regulatory Advertising (CONAR) will take action on August 1 against advertisers that claim company operations are sustainable without explaining why in their ads and without being able to substantiate that claim

Recommended reading: privacy policy paper on online behavioral advertising issues

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • October 13 2011

Most of the legislative privacy buzz this session has centered around online behavioral advertising (OBA) along with the Federal Trade Commission’s proposal for a universal “do-not-track.”

Trademark enforcement, trademark “bullies” and social media

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 5 2011

A few weeks ago, while in Montpelier, Vermont, I stumbled upon a Farmer’s Market that featured a wealth of Vermont made, grown and raised art, produce and meats

Cyberbullying talking to your children about responsibly using social networking and electronic communications

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • October 19 2011

The leaves are changing and the kids are back in school, with the fall semester now in full swing

SOPA and PIPA legislation stalled in Congress

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 20 2012

Following this week’s Internet blackout by service providers and online resources opposed to the pending Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act, Congressional leaders have announced a postponement on future action on the legislation

Longer may not always be better: congressmen question Facebook’s prolix privacy policy

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 12 2011

Following on the heels of Facebook’s landmark settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, a bipartisan group of members of the House of Representatives has apparently read the “new and improved” Facebook privacy policy and were not impressed