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Spoliation, Sanctions, and Staying Social Media Savvy

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Social media has changed the way we share ideas, the way we get our news, the way we make purchases, and the way we conceptualize ourselves and our community. It has changed the way we keep in touch with our friends and...more

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Six Challenges When Collecting Social Media Artifacts for eDiscovery Litigation

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Social media platforms are one of society’s primary communication channels, not just for personal interactions but also for business communications. Consequently, collecting social media artifacts for eDiscovery purposes is a...more

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6 Key eDiscovery Tips from Master’s Conference New York

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Imagine a day-long gathering of the pantheon of east coast-based eDiscovery experts, with an agenda replete with the hottest topics in eDiscovery, change management and AI, and you have last week’s Master’s Conference in New...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

[Public Service Webinar] How to Back up Twitter Step by Step - November 28th, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET

With the turbulence at Twitter, Mary Mack decided to back up our outgoing tweets, followers and lists that she uses to curate news. In order to archive she found there were many steps and a few tools needed to do so and is...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

How to Back up Twitter Step by Step

With the turbulance at Twitter, I decided to back up my outgoing tweets, followers and my lists I use to curate news. This exercise can be used for archiving, disaster recovery, or for preservation purposes. The archive that...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

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

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

Jenner & Block

Data Scraping: In hiQ v. LinkedIn, the Ninth Circuit Reaffirms Narrow Interpretation of CFAA

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On April 18, 2022, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed its narrow interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act’s (CFAA) “without authorization” prong in a data scraping dispute between hiQ and LinkedIn. The opinion upheld a...more

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Schluss machen mit Parship

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Spirit Legal vertritt vzbv in Musterfeststellungsklage gegen Parship - Der Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e. V. (vzbv) hat Musterfeststellungsklage gegen die PE Digital GmbH als Betreiberin der...more

K&L Gates LLP

Germany's Highest Antitrust Court Published the Detailed Written Statement of Reasons of its Facebook-Decision -- With...

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On 23 June 2020 the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) orally announced its decision in the interim proceedings initiated by Facebook against the prohibition and cessation orders of the German Federal...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Phishing Risks Associated With Social Media

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With the ever evolving cyber threats, it is important to we understand our social media accounts and the way in which they make us vulnerable. Social media (i.e., Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat…) is free to members...more

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Interactive Counsel Newsletter: Privacy Report: FBI Issues Updated Ransomware Guidance

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FBI Issues Updated Ransomware Guidance - A recent report from New Zealand-based cybersecurity firm Emsisoft has revealed the extent to which ransomware is being used in cyberattacks in the United States. The first 9 months...more

Sunstein LLP

Exploitation of Publicly Available Website Data May be Unstoppable

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Data scraping is a technique by which automated tools are used to extract data from a website and format the data for analysis. Many companies mine website users’ publicly accessible data in order to tailor products and...more

King & Spalding

Ninth Circuit Affirms Certification Of Biometric Privacy Class Action Against Facebook

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On August 8, the Ninth Circuit issued a highly anticipated decision affirming the district court’s certification of a class of Facebook users who suffered alleged violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - September 2019 #3

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Many cities in the United States utilize a self-pay portal for residents to pay bills online, known as Click2Gov. Click2Gov was compromised in 2017 and 2018, when hackers were able to access over 300,000 payment cards and...more

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Ninth Circuit Rejects Claim That Web Scraping Violates CFAA

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On September 9, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a highly-anticipated opinion in hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corporation, No. 17-16783 (9th Cir. Sept. 9, 2019)....more

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LinkedIn Profiles And The Applicability Of The Computer Fraud And Abuse Act

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LinkedIn is a popular professional networking website with more than half a billion members. Many of its users, in an effort to enhance their networking capabilities, make their profile public and available to anyone to...more

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BYOD Challenges

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If you are like most, you probably have 4-5 different chat applications on your phone to talk to friends and family members.  Dad only likes to text via SMS, brother Peter only uses Facebook Messenger, Aunty Bridgette can...more

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[Webinar] Social Media Discovery™: Find the Smoking Gun - April 30th, 1:00pm ET

With billions of active accounts across multiple social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and more, user-generated content is being created at an incredible pace. Social media information is...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

With More Than 8 Billion Things, Where Are the IoT Privacy Laws?

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No one knows for sure how many "things" are connected to the Internet, but the Federal Trade Commission reported last year that it was more than 8 billion, and that it would exceed 20 billion by the end of 2020! Astonishing...more

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FTC Obtains Record COPPA Settlement

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On February 27, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced that it settled with the operators of a video social networking app for a record civil penalty of $5.7 million under the Children’s Online Privacy...more

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Websites Have Evolved—It’s Time for Ediscovery to Follow Suit

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Remember the original internet, with its clunky graphics and minimal information? You might not remember doing much online back in the 1990s, because frankly there wasn’t yet a lot of worthwhile content to engage with....more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Facebook Biometric Suit Moves Forward

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California recently ruled that a certified class action on behalf of Illinois Facebook users alleging that the social network unlawfully collects biometric data from photo...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Website Prices, Influencers and Big Data: Marketing in Canada’s Digital Economy

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Prices on e-commerce platforms, social media influencers and the use of big data are trending right now under the deceptive marketing provisions of Canada’s Competition Act....more

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Twitter Becomes the Latest Social Media Company Tangentially Linked to Cambridge Analytica

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The conversation surrounding the data we put online continues to heat up. Bloomberg reports that in 2015, Twitter sold access to randomly selected tweets to Aleksandr Kogan, the individual who created the personality quiz...more

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German regulator alleges abuse of dominance by Facebook over data usage policies

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On 19 December 2017, the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO), issued a press release alleging that Facebook had abused its dominant position on the market for social networks in Germany. It specifically alleges that it...more

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