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New Mexico Snaps at Snapchat for Allegedly Failing to Protect Minors

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New Mexico AG Raúl Torrez has filed a lawsuit against Snap Inc., accusing Snapchat of facilitating child sexual exploitation and sextortion through its design features and recommendation algorithms, allegedly violating state...more

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Social Action - How will the financial regulator influence the Online Safety Act?

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Social media raises a novel set of risks and challenges to effective financial services regulation, particularly in the field of consumer protection and market integrity. Specifically, regulators have expressed concerns...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

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Social Media Algorithms for Law Firms: What Legal Marketers Need to Know

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The power of social media cannot be denied, but the landscape is complex and constantly changing. It’s easy to get frustrated with the various algorithms that control how much of your messaging gets to the masses. Every major...more

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China’s New AI Regulations

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China’s regulations aim to address risks related to artificial intelligence and introduce compliance obligations on entities engaged in AI-related business. This Client Alert discusses what technologies and entities are...more

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LinkedIn Best Practices: June 2023 Algorithm Update

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As legal professionals, optimizing your LinkedIn presence is essential to grow your network, engage with potential clients, and showcase your expertise. The platform is moving away from casual, opinionated content and back...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded - Technology Law Insights, V 4, Issue 7, August 2023

You may be Entitled to Financial Compensation…for Your Data - “Without all of our writings and photos that AI companies are using to train their models, they would have nothing to sell.” Why this is important: This...more

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FTC: Companies Should Use Caution When Relying on AI Tools to Curtail Online Harms

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In a report by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released on June 16, 2022, the agency is critical of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to combat online harms. In the report by the agency, which was issued in response...more

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Lawmakers Continue to Scrutinize Algorithm Use Directed at Youth

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Legislators in Minnesota are considering a bill that would prohibit social media platforms from using algorithms to target content to users under 18. This proposal is another in a series of federal and state legislative...more

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A Beginner’s Guide to Keyword Research for Law Firms

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Keyword research is the foundation of an SEO strategy and other digital marketing efforts. Effective keyword research is essential if you want to reach a relevant audience online – or even be found online at all! Keyword...more

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Meta Hit with Lawsuits Over Allegations of Promoting Hate Speech

Meta has been hit with two related lawsuits totaling over $150 billion in its first major legal challenge since rebranding. The suits (one filed in California Superior Court and the other in the UK) come from a class...more

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Proposed Bill Seeks to Limit the Audacity of Opacity on the Internet

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Online platforms may soon face restrictions on how they use personal data to customize content and information feeds to users. Recently proposed bipartisan legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives aims to...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Twitch Files a Lawsuit to Enforce Account Termination

Content moderation is one of the biggest challenges for any interactive computer service provider that publishes information created by others. It is difficult to balance users' desires to express themselves and their desires...more

Cozen O'Connor

NAAG Voices Support for Congress’s Hearings on Social Media Platforms’ Targeting of Minors

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The National Association of Attorneys General (“NAAG”) sent a letter to the S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation’s Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security in support of...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

European Digital Compliance: Key Digital Regulation & Compliance Developments

To help organisations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison & Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main topical developments in this area that...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

What Is The ‘Algorithmic Justice And Online Platform Transparency Act?’

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U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts has introduced the “Algorithmic Justice and Online Platform Transparency Act.” If signed into law, the bill will impose several new requirements on online platforms:.....more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Everyone Is Still Talking About Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act

In a recent post, we addressed the US Department of Justice’s recent recommendations to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) to provide incentives for online platforms to address illicit material on...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

U.S. Scheduled Bans On TikTok And WeChat Apps Delayed

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China-based smartphone apps, TikTok and WeChat, have each received a reprieve from the respective bans, which were originally ordered by President Trump on August 6, 2020 against both parties and were scheduled to take effect...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

HHS Issues Favorable Advisory Opinion for Online Healthcare Directory Charging Per-Click Fees

On September 5, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued OIG Advisory Opinion 19-04 ( Advisory Opinion). The Requestor asked OIG if providing an online healthcare...more

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OTA & Travel Distribution Update - Expedia expands its voice-activation résumé; UK's Competition and Markets Authority issues...

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Expedia Expands Its Voice-Activation Résumé - ("Expedia Brings Voice Bookings, Cancellations and Rewards to Google Assistant," Skift Travel News, October 9, 2018) It was less than two years ago that we featured...more

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Mechanical Managers: Replacing Human Managers With Programming In The Gig Economy

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Although legal tests for determining employment status have taken center stage with numerous recent high-profile cases, lurking in the background is a question that may also have implications beyond the gig economy space:...more

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Mintz TechConnect - October 2015

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Letter from the Editors - We are thrilled to provide you with the first issue of Mintz Levin’s TechConnect, a bi-monthly newsletter on “all things technology” in the legal and business world, from our perspective, of...more

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