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If software isn't "tangible," then how did we write this?

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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  • USA
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  • November 6 2010

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled last month in Ferrington v. McAfee that computer software is not a “tangible chattel” and so is not covered under the California Consumers Legal Remedies Act, which prohibits “unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices undertaken by any person in a transaction intended to result or which results in the sale or lease of goods or services to any consumer."

The green eyeshade approach to privacy

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 2 2011

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) have released a guide to help organizations determine whether their privacy standards meet the Generally Accepted Privacy Principles of the accounting institutes

Administration extends time for comment on plan for privacy codes of conduct

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 24 2012

The Department of Commerce announced on March 21 that it was extending the period for public comment on the Administration’s plan to establish legally enforceable industry codes of conduct to implement its proposed “Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights.”