Wikileaks investigation produces novel ECPA standing decision
On Friday, March 11, the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issued a ruling in a case involving access to Twitter user data as part of the government’s investigation of the...
View ArticleDIRNSA: “The theft of IP is astounding”
In his annual appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week (on March 27), Gen. Keith Alexander, Director of the NSA (DIRNSA) and the Commander of the U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM),...
View ArticlePersistent Scraper May Violate CFAA By Circumventing IP Blocking
In an order issued on Friday, the Northern District of California found that defendant 3Taps, a company that aggregates Craigslist ads to republish on its own site and as an API service, may be liable...
View ArticleCalifornia Amends Data Breach Notification Law – Other States to Follow?
On January 1, 2014, a new data breach notification law will take effect in California (of course). The Golden State has been leading the charge for years in enacting data privacy and security...
View ArticleFederal Court Rejects VPPA Claim Based on Disclosure of IP Addresses and...
In an important decision that has the potential to stem the tide of Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”) lawsuits, a federal judge in the District of New Jersey dismissed on the pleadings a VPPA claim...
View ArticleTargeting Ads with Health and Medical Data: What Online Platforms Need to Know
You may have noticed more online ads lately related to health and medical conditions—perhaps conditions that you have, or that someone in your household has. Increasingly, online ad platforms have...
View ArticleCA Digital Eraser Law’s Unresolved Ambiguities Make Compliance Tricky
With the fast-approaching compliance deadline of January 1, 2015 and no guidance from the California AG’s office, online and mobile service operators are still wondering if and how California’s new...
View ArticleVPPA Claim Against Viacom Dismissed With Prejudice
Yesterday, Judge Stanley Chesler of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey dismissed once and for all a Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”) claim against Viacom based on its...
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