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European Commission Publishes Draft Regulation Prohibiting Geo-Blocking by...
As part of the European Commission’s Digital Single Market initiative, the European Commission has published a draft Regulation aimed at preventing traders from discriminating against customers located...
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2017: Predictions From Socially Aware’s Editors and Contributors
The beginning of a new year is a time for resolutions and predictions. We won’t bother Socially Aware readers with our resolutions for 2017, but we thought that we would share some predictions for the...
View ArticleSocial Media 2017: Addressing Corporate Risks
Social media is transforming the way companies interact with consumers. Learn how to make the most of these online opportunities while minimizing your company’s risk at Practicing Law Institute’s (PLI)...
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Now Available: The February Issue of Our Socially Aware Newsletter
The latest issue of our Socially Aware newsletter is now available here. In this edition,we examine a spate of court decisions that appear to rein in the historically broad scope of the Communications...
View ArticleJoin Us at the Social Media 2017: Addressing Corporate Risks Conference on...
In the wake of a successful social media conference in San Francisco, Socially Aware co-editors John Delaney and Aaron Rubin are revved up and ready to chair (John) and present (Aaron and John) at...
View ArticleOverview of Emerging Cybersecurity Issues
In the most recent edition of his CyberSide Chat series, Socially Aware contributor Andy Serwin discusses emerging cybersecurity issues including: The need to strike a balance between the efficiencies...
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Delaware Governor Signs Groundbreaking Blockchain Legislation into Law
On July 21, 2017, following last June’s announcement that the Delaware House of Representatives had passed (with near unanimity) blockchain-related provisions proposing to amend several sections of the...
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Hot Off the Press: Our New Guide to Social Media and the Securities Laws
Nearly all companies—whether they’re focused on the B2C market or the B2B market—have embraced social media as a way to promote their goods and services and to interact with customers and potential...
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More Insight From the FTC on Data Security—or More of the Same?
Recent challenges to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) authority to police data security practices have criticized the agency’s failure to provide adequate guidance to companies. In other words, the...
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SCOTUS to Resolve Lower-Court Dispute Over U.S. Warrants Seeking...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 16, 2017, announced it had granted the government’s petition for certiorari in United States v. Microsoft and will hear a case this Term that could have lasting...
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Foreign Cloud-Based Service Providers May Be Subject to Personal Jurisdiction...
Following a recent U.S. district court’s ruling, foreign companies operating cloud-based services may find themselves subject to federal long-arm jurisdiction under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure...
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Connected Devices Bring New Product Liability Challenges
“My Google Home Mini was inadvertently spying on me 24/7 due to a hardware flaw,” wrote a tech blogger who purchased Google Inc.’s latest internet of things (IoT) device. Following the incident, a pact...
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As Socially Aware readers know, social media is transforming the way companies interact with consumers. Learn how to make the most of these online opportunities while minimizing your company’s legal...
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2017: Our Greatest Hits
Last year we covered a wide range of online legal and business subjects intended for readers ranging from Internet entrepreneurs to social media marketers, from online shoppers to e-tailers, from...
View ArticleSocial Links: Inline link to tweet with photo could constitute copyright...
In a decision that has generated considerable controversy, a federal court in New York has held that the popular practice of embedding tweets into websites and blogs can result in copyright...
View ArticleA Morrison & Foerster/Socially Aware Data Protection Masterclass Webinar
With the effective date of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) less than one month away, companies subject to the GDPR are racing to comply with the regulation’s data privacy laws. But,...
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Just over a month after the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect, California passed its own sweeping privacy legislation, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. The Act stands...
View ArticleSocial Links: An EU law to protect copyright owners online; collecting...
A new law in Australia makes a social media company’s failure to remove “abhorrent violent material” from its platform punishable by significant fines. The law also states that the executives at social...
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The Company Who Cried “General Audience”: Google and YouTube to Pay $170...
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission made clear that child-directed parts of an otherwise general audience service will subject the operator of the service to the Children’s Online Privacy...
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