Mintz | USA | 18 Feb 2017
On February 16, 2017, the New York State Industrial Board of Appeals invalidated and revoked the NYS Department of Labor regulations we wrote about…
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP | USA | 27 Jul 2016
Based on the popularity of games like Pokémon GO, augmented reality (AR) games are sure to become even more popular. However, unlike standard games…
DLA Piper | European Union, France, Germany | 18 Jul 2016
The French and German competition authorities have jointly published a paper on big data and competition law. The paper gives an overview of the…
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP | Germany | 25 Aug 2011
On August 19, 2011, the Data Protection Commissioner’s Office of the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein (“ULD”) ordered all businesses in that state “to shut down their fan pages on Facebook and remove social plug-ins such as the ‘like’-button from their websites.”
Matheson LLP | Ireland | 4 Aug 2011
Cookies are small text files on web browsers that store user information.
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP | European Union | 21 Jul 2011
On May 26, 2011, the 2009 amendments to the e-Privacy Directive (the “Directive”) regulating the use of internet cookies in the European Union (“EU”) went into effect.
Stikeman Elliott LLP | Canada, United Kingdom | 8 Jul 2011
On June 8, 2011, the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) found that online coupon provider Groupon, Inc. had misrepresented the ordinary selling price of a third party service that was advertised to Groupon’s online subscribers, and ordered Groupon to remove the advertisement from circulation.
McCarthy Tétrault LLP | Canada | 2 Jun 2011
If you watch TV, read the news or plug in to almost any form of media lately, you've likely heard about the coming of the "cloud.
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP | United Kingdom | 27 May 2011
This week new rules governing the use of cookies (and similar information storage technologies) came into force: if you want to store a cookie on your computer or device, you will have to obtain the user's consent first.
Squire Patton Boggs | United Kingdom | 26 May 2011
Does your business operate an interactive website aimed at UK consumers?