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Guidepost Solutions LLC

[Webinar] Countering Disinformation: Under Attack! - March 19th, 2:00 pm EST

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Social media and digital spaces are the prisms through which people view the world. It is where people communicate, receive news and information, and develop beliefs of morality, ethics, and fact. Truth has become relative...more

BakerHostetler

Updated FTC Endorsement Guides Hold Virtual Influencers to Actual Standards

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“Hey, how do we contract with a virtual influencer?” – Marketing. In-house Legal Friends: If you haven’t received this email yet, you will soon. The use of hyper-realistic virtual influencers to endorse products is no...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Academic Advisor - Education Law Insights, Issue 6, June 2023

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Supreme Court Blocks Use of Race in Harvard, UNC Admissions in Blow to Diversity Efforts - "In one of its most closely watched cases this year, the court ruled along ideological lines that the way the schools approached race...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

“So What?”: Twitter Resists Merger Agreement Termination by Invoking Musk’s Unclean Hands

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Elon Musk has lobbed in two additional termination letters since his original July 8 letter seeking to terminate his agreement to acquire Twitter for $44 billion.  Each termination letter cites alleged false representations...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #342 – If You Use Twitter, Be Aware and Stay Tuned

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This week, in addition to the news-catching, ongoing dispute between Twitter and Elon Musk, Twitter’s former head of cybersecurity, Peiter Zatko, claimed in a whistleblower filing with several federal agencies that Twitter...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #336 – Facebook Accounts Stolen Through Phishing Schemes Using Messenger Chatbots

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Trustwave has reported a new scheme in which threat actors are using the popular Facebook Messenger platform to steal Facebook login credentials. According to the report, the threat actors are using a phishing email to...more

BakerHostetler

AD-ttorneys@law – July 2020 #3

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Bumble Settles over Multistate Dating Lawsuit - Company allegedly renewed services without consent - All the Young Dudes - For a while there, online dating was beginning to look IRLish. ...more

Epiq

Not Even Bots Are Safe From California Law Makers

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In October 2018, California passed the Bolstering Online Transparency Act (BOT Act), which prohibits online bots from hiding their identities in order to appear as a human user. The human-like persona is used to deceive...more

McGuireWoods Consulting

Emerging Technologies Washington Update - July 2019 #3

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This Week: House, Senate Judiciary Subcommittees continue to scrutinize online platforms, House Oversight examines federal government’s approach to cloud services, Senate Committee holds hearing on electric battery...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Is There Anybody Behind That Bot?

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As previously reported on DWT’s AI Law Advisor blog, beginning on July 1, 2019, a new California law makes it unlawful for any person to use a “bot” to communicate with a person in California “online” with the intent to...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

California’s Bot Transparency Law Goes into Effect on July 1, 2019

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...On July 1, 2019, California’s new bot disclosure law will take effect, requiring bots to be upfront about their inhumanity. The law prohibits bots from communicating with a person in California with the intent to mislead...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

Be Careful that Bot Doesn’t Come Back to Bite You

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Much like humans, bots come in all shapes and sizes. In social media networks, these bots can like what you post and even increase your followers. ...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Get All of Your Bots in a Row: 2018 California Bot Disclosure Law Comes Online Soon

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During the 2016 election, certain Russian operatives used fake social media profiles to influence voters and also created bot accounts to add likes to and share posts across the internet. And more recently, in January 2019,...more

Perkins Coie

I Am Robot: California’s New Law Requires Disclosure of Use of Bots

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Businesses that use chatbots to interact with customers online may be affected by California’s new Autobot Law, Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17940, et seq. (SB 1001), that goes into effect July 1, 2019. As the nation’s first...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Influencer Marketing Council Provides Tips on Influencer Fraud

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In the world of influencer marketing, a person’s power is often measured in terms of followers, “likes,” and other types of engagement. Because more followers and more engagement generally means more reach, companies who work...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

Bots, Sock Puppets and a Reckoning for a Social Media Influence Peddler

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We’ve previously written about “tweet-less, picture-less,” computer-operated accounts or bots, that make one appear more popular—a.k.a. influential on social media—than one actually is. Recently, legislators and law...more

BakerHostetler

California Legislature Cracks Down on Advertising Bots Involved in Commercial Transactions and Influencing Voters in Elections

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Bot or real person? – a question most online users probably don’t ask themselves when interacting online or seeing how many followers a person has on a social media platform....more

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California Enacts Nation’s First Anti-Bot Law

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On September 28, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law S.B. 1001, which makes it illegal “for any person to use a bot to communicate or interact with another person in California online, with the intent to mislead...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Battling Bots on Social Media

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In the world of social media, a person’s power is often measured in terms of followers. More followers means the ability to influence more people. Companies who work with influencers understand this and often base...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Social Links: Yelp’s Communications Decency Act claim; Twitter loosens its character limit; building a Snapchat audience

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The California Supreme Court agreed to hear Yelp’s case arguing that requiring the company to remove a one-star review of a law firm “creates a gaping hole” in the immunity that shields internet service providers from suits...more

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