Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 17 Apr 2017
For years, craigslist has aggressively used technological and legal methods to prevent unauthorized parties from violating its terms of use by…
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 2 Feb 2017
For the second time in the past six months, a district court has dismissed a lawsuit alleging procedural and technical violations of the Illinois…
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 30 Jun 2015
On Monday, the Supreme Court denied certiorari in Google's appeal of the Federal Circuit's 2014 ruling that that the declaring code and the structure…
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 23 Jun 2015
This week, a major self-regulatory initiative intended to address privacy concerns associated with facial recognition technology hit a significant…
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 19 May 2011
In what may represent a new wave in an interesting challenge to the viral nature of social media marketing, a recently filed putative class action asserts a right of publicity claim against Facebook in connection with the service's "Like" and "Friend Finder" features.
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 11 Jan 2011
E-mails that were sent to e-mail accounts connected to a domain name that was transferred pursuant to a settlement agreement, and that were read by the new domain name owner, were not "intercepted" within the meaning of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, a district court ruled.
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 11 Jan 2011
The federal Stored Communications Act bars the enforcement of a subpoena directed to an e-mail service provider to obtain the contents of an account-holder's e-mails, absent the consent of the account holder, a district court ruled.
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 11 Jan 2011
A Web site operator could not enforce limitations on access set forth in its Terms of Use, where the ToU were not displayed on the site in a way in which a reasonable user could be expected to notice them, a district court ruled.
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 11 Jan 2011
An online business review site is not liable for alleged defamatory comments posted by a third party user of the site, a New York trial court ruled.
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 30 Sep 2010
A Virginia statute prohibiting the public disclosure of Social Security Numbers is unconstitutional as applied to a privacy advocate who posted publicly available land records containing unredacted Social Security Numbers as part of a privacy lobbying effort, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled.