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Google Halts Plan to Phase Out Third-Party Cookies: 3 Essential Next Steps for Businesses

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Google no longer plans to remove third-party cookies from its web browser, according to a July 22 announcement. Instead, the tech giant will explore other options that allow users to make informed choices that apply across...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Private Nutzung von Internet und E-Mail am Arbeitsplatz: Endlich mehr Sicherheit für Arbeitgeber?

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Private Nutzung von Internet und E-Mail am Arbeitsplatz: Endlich mehr Sicherheit für Arbeitgeber? Nach bisheriger Auffassung der deutschen Datenschutzbehörden ist der Arbeitgeber bei gestatteter Privatnutzung von...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

FCC’s Net Neutrality Redux: Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet

On May 7, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued its latest network neutrality order, Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet (the "Order"), which was published in the Federal Register on May 22, 2024,...more

Burr & Forman

Do You Have a Pixel Problem?

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If you do not know what a pixel is, you may have a problem and should read on. This article will explain the recent trend of “pixel litigation” and suggest some ways to help companies avoid liability and avoid becoming...more

Guidepost Solutions LLC

FTC Proposes Strengthening Children’s Privacy Rule

On January 11, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would fortify the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). This move underscores a significant shift in the...more

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

The Power and Peril of IP Addresses: The Supreme Court of Canada Weighs in on the Changing Landscape of Online Privacy

The Supreme Court of Canada recently delivered a landmark decision on the privacy rights of Internet users. In R v Bykovets, police investigating an alleged online fraud requested and obtained a suspect’s Internet Protocol...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Lawsuits Continue to Impact State Laws Regulating the Internet

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States around the country have been enacting laws to regulate the internet in the name of children’s safety. Several of these regulatory schemes have been preliminarily enjoined because they burden free speech and raise other...more

Jenner & Block

Ninth Circuit Limits Jurisdiction Over Web-Based Platforms

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In a recent decision, Briskin v. Shopify, Inc., 2023 WL 8225346 (9th Cir. Nov. 28, 2023), the Ninth Circuit held that a Canadian-based company, Shopify, which provides a web-based payment processing platform to merchants...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

Privacy Priorities for 2024 (and Beyond)

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The upcoming year will continue to hold challenges for data privacy programs. The Quarles Privacy Week 2024 programming from this week has provided an overview of the upcoming issues and challenges that are on the horizon....more

Hogan Lovells

Highlight: Amendment of Indonesia’s Electronic Information and Transactions Law

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On 2 January 2024, the Indonesian Government officially enacted the Law No. 1 of 2024 on the Second Amendment to Law No. 11 of 2008 on Electronic Information and Transactions (EIT law)....more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Ninth Circuit Opinion Supports Personal Jurisdiction Defense for Interactive Websites

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With so many companies being hauled into court in California based on claims that the functionalities on their website and use of service providers for marketing or analytics purposes violate consumer privacy rights, it is...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

TechRadar’s Cyber Predictions for 2024 are Spot On

Because technology develops so rapidly, and “trends” are fast and furious, it is always hard to predict what the big issues will be for the next year. A year is a long time in the tech field. Just look at how fast ChatGPT...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Coalition of States Sues Meta for Alleged Harms to Children and Teens, and Alleged COPPA Violations

On October 24, 2023, a bipartisan coalition of 33 states’ attorneys general filed suit against Meta Platforms, Inc., alleging in a lengthy complaint that Meta’s social media platform features are unsafe and designed to induce...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

Plaintiffs Continue Website Privacy Lawsuits Using 35-Year-Old Statute

In 1988, Congress enacted the Video Protection Privacy Act (“VPPA”) in response to the confirmation hearing of Judge Robert Bork, where his video rental history was disclosed during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing....more

White & Case LLP

AI Legal News Summer Roundup: Edition 3

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Welcome to the third edition of our AI Legal News Summer Roundup! After five class actions were filed between June 28 and July 11 (as reported on in our first edition of this series), on July 21, another class action lawsuit...more

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Tips for Healthcare Organizations Handling Negative Online Reviews

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A healthcare organization’s online presence is an important component of its reputation. Occasionally, dissatisfied patients will post negative reviews about healthcare services on social media and customer review platforms...more

Goodwin

California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) Decisions Continue to Create Uncertainty for Websites Using Third-Party Technology

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The pace of internet consumer privacy class action litigation is skyrocketing. Remarkably, no specific legislative change in the law triggered the increase in litigation. Instead, the driver of this litigation explosion — in...more

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Things We Learned at the 2023 IAPP Global Privacy Summit

The International Association of Privacy Professionals held its annual Global Privacy Summit on April 4-5 in Washington, D.C. Here are some things we learned. 1. Generative Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) is Ubiquitous in the...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Biden administration releases National Cybersecurity Strategy

On March 2, the Biden administration announced the release of its National Cybersecurity Strategy (Strategy) in a continued effort to provide a safe and secure digital ecosystem for Americans. ...more

Burr & Forman

Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule Q&A

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COPPA, or the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule, was designed to protect the privacy of children under 13 years of age by giving their parents certain tools to control how the child's information can and cannot be...more

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Protecting Data in the Metaverse: Do Avatars Dream of Privacy?

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The metaverse will bring many benefits, but it is also likely to multiply and compound privacy issues, particularly given its global nature. With the advent of the commercial internet in the 1990s, organizations were...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Ongoing Program] The World Wide Web of Risk: Protecting Yourself in the Metaverse - May 5th, 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm PT

Join an interdisciplinary panel of Manatt professionals for the third of a three-part webinar series on the metaverse and the dawn of the Web3 era. While Parts One and Two of our series focused on the blockchain basics and...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Ongoing Program] What Is Web3?: Essentials of the Blockchain-based Internet Revolution - March 3rd, 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm ET

With the recent explosion of blockchain technology and major companies pivoting their business models to realize the promise of a metaverse, tech innovators, entertainment and sports icons, and venture capitalists alike are...more

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Major Update in Data Privacy Laws Proposed in Massachusetts

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On February 2, 2022, the Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Committee on Advanced Information Technology, the Internet and Cybersecurity released a new draft of a bill designed to provide mechanisms for how personal...more

BakerHostetler

A Digital Advertising Primer on Preparing for the Post-Cookie World: Part One

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Overview of the Five-Part Series - In a time of constant change in digital advertising, there is one consistent question that persists in advertisers’ minds: What do we do after third-party cookies are gone? The digital...more

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