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Decoding Cease-and-Desist Letters: A Guide to Navigating Wiretap Allegations Linked to Meta Pixel Use

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Introduction Uptik in Threat Letters & Legal Actions: A Wake-Up Call for Companies Using Meta Pixel In recent years, the digital landscape has become a battleground for privacy rights, with Meta Pixel at the epicenter of numerous legal disputes. alleges violations of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act among other claims.

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Chegg Is Likely to Prevail on Its Anti-Scraping CFAA Claim…But Doesn’t Get an Injunction–Chegg v. Doe (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Chegg sent a cease-and-desist letter to Homeworkify’s domain registrar, Namecheap, its proxy server, Cloudflare, and the email address associated with domain registration, but they have found nothing. (for When doing so, defendant had to agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy. Those terms and privacy policies were hyperlinked.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Google changed its privacy policy to collect all “public” data (viz., And to characterize zero-click online terms of use that are imposed by cease-and-desist letter as enforceable contracts is horrible policy and bad law. Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. StabilityAI exploded.

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Once Again, LinkedIn Can’t Use CFAA To Stop Unwanted Scraping–hiQ v. LinkedIn

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Our blog post on the original Ninth Circuit ruling: “ Ninth Circuit Says LinkedIn Wrongly Blocked HiQ’s Scraping Efforts ”.). The court remains skeptical of LinkedIn’s privacy-based arguments: LinkedIn has no protected property interest in the data contributed by its users, as the users retain ownership over their profiles.

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Hello, You’ve Been Referred Here Because You’re Wrong About Web Scraping Laws (Guest Blog Post, Part 2 of 2)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

There is the famous example of NYU data researchers who received a cease-and-desist letter from Facebook/Meta for doing research on Facebook’s algorithm. The post Hello, You’ve Been Referred Here Because You’re Wrong About Web Scraping Laws (Guest Blog Post, Part 2 of 2) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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TOS Supports Injunction Against Web Scraping–Southwest Airlines v. Kiwi

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

It sent Kiwi cease and desist letters and has implemented security measures, but “Kiwi has continued to hack the Southwest website and sell Southwest flights without permission.”. In addition, Southwest sent Kiwi several cease and desist letters. Kiwi appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Anti-Circumvention Takedowns Aren’t Covered by 512(f)–Yout v. RIAA

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

[I’ll blog the Supreme Court’s cert grant in Gonzalez v. Summit Entertainment. * Cease & Desist Letter to iTunes Isn’t Covered by 17 USC 512(f)–Red Rock v. Zen Path. * Disclosure of the Substance of Privileged Communications via Email, Blog, and Chat Results in Waiver — Lenz v. MGA Entertainment.