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X Corp. v. Bright Data is the Decision We’ve Been Waiting For (Guest Blog Post)

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If the issue lies in loopholes within the ToS, the solution seems straightforward: draft tighter contracts and perhaps incorporate a browsewrap on your platforms to catch those who don’t hold accounts. X’s breach of contract cases against CCDH for violating its ToS by scraping also didn’t fare well. In 2022, in ML Genius v.

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Do Mandatory Age Verification Laws Conflict with Biometric Privacy Laws?–Kuklinski v. Binance

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California passed the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) nominally to protect children’s privacy, but at the same time, the AADC requires businesses to do an age “assurance” of all their users, children and adults alike. Doing age assurance/age verification raises substantial privacy risks.

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Poorly Executed “Sign-in-Wrap” Contract Formation Process Fails–Berman v. Freedom Financial

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The court confirms that to ensure enforceability, consumers should (1) check the box and (2) be advised that checking the box will indicate assent to contract terms. These basic principles “apply with equal force to contracts formed online.” See blog posts on those rulings here and here.). Freedom Financial Network, LLC.

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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)

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Even if Google’s conduct could be interpreted as a technical violation of many websites’ notoriously overbroad terms of service, their conduct doesn’t meet the criteria for most online breach of contract disputes. Trademark, copyright, trespass to chattels, the law of online contracts—none of this stuff is novel.

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Court Says Twitter Misused Litigation to Punish Defendants for Their Speech–X v. CCDH

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In a highly technical ruling, the court rejects Twitter’s CFAA claim on a motion to dismiss and rejects Twitter’s other claims, including breach of contract, on an anti-SLAPP motion to strike. RIPTwitter. * * * Most readers should stop reading the blog post here. Breach of Contract Twitter’s TOS bans scraping.

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Facebook Faces Contributory Trademark Liability for Marketplace Listings–Car-Freshner v. Meta

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The rightsowner has trademark registrations for the tree-shaped outline: Armed with protectable rights in tree outlines, Car-Freshner has turned into a serial plaintiff, though this is my first time blogging them in-depth. I see potential legitimate trademark defenses for the design.

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Two More Cases Compel Arbitration for Dubious Online Contracts (Guest Blog Post)

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by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy The intersection of the Federal Arbitration Act and the law of online contracts has become utterly corrosive to our legal system. The problem with the FAA and online contracts, of course, is that no one is agreeing to arbitrate anything. Consumer Contracts (Tent. Many people think this is true.