IPilogue

MARCH 13, 2023

Using the Internet inevitably requires consenting to have your personal information used, collected, and disclosed by the websites you visit. A common reason for individuals, corporations, and non-profit organizations to collect your personal information is to influence your behaviour online, from your voting habits to your mental health.

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Michael Geist

MAY 16, 2024

For those new to the bill, the government has called it “fundamentally flawed” since it contemplates measures that raise privacy concerns through mandated age verification technologies, website blocking, and extends far beyond pornography sites to include search and social media.

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IPilogue

JUNE 27, 2022

Facebook) was liable under several provincial privacy statutes for using class members’ likenesses without their consent. . Through Sponsored Stories, advertisers pay Facebook to associate their mark on Facebook’s social media website with users that performed certain social actions in connection with the advertiser (e.g.

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IPilogue

JULY 4, 2022

A thorough analysis of the selected EdTech products showed that a vast majority of the government-endorsed online learning platforms risked children’s privacy and violated children’s rights. Many of the products were found to collect children’s personal information without the child’s or parent’s consent.

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IPilogue

JUNE 1, 2022

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, academic discussions indicated that artificial intelligence (AI) would signify the fourth industrial revolution with tangible economic benefits and potential privacy concerns. Nowadays, privacy concerns exceed personal information protection. . Ensures human monitoring. .

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2023

However, many users do not understand how the technology works, and how the use of generative AI collects personal or sensitive information of users. The use of generative AI tools is much like how users use the Internet or social media.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 27, 2021

Privacy has been a reoccurring issue debated across the world as virtual communication is no longer seen as an option but essential to working remotely during a pandemic. Dangers of Unprotected Information. Not only does this violate our privacy rights, but it also creates a bigger ethical dilemma within the economic market.

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Commission says the registrations would give it “ de minimis information about online undertakings and their activities in Canada, which would give the Commission an initial understanding of the Canadian online broadcasting landscape and would allow it to communicate with online undertakings.” So what’s the reality?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 7, 2022

20-303 (Office of Attorney General March 10, 2022): “internally generated inferences that a business holds about a consumer are personal information within the meaning of the CCPA, and must be disclosed to the consumer on request. Nor was the disclosure of Plaintiff’s information unauthorized. . * Opinion of Rob Bonta , No.

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IPilogue

JULY 16, 2021

FRT easily collects vast quantities of biometric information with minimal cost or effort. Reports of racial bias and Canadian privacy law violations weaken the argument for implementing FRT. The special report specifically investigates the RCMP’s use of Clearview AI (with FRT), pursuant to section 39(1) of Canada’s Privacy Act.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The complaint, filed in Superior Court in Maricopa County, Arizona, sounds in two counts: invasion of privacy and negligent disclosure of medical information. ” According to the complaint, the list of affected employees was also shared on social media.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 13, 2021

The world of competitive video gaming implicates a complicated patchwork of privacy laws, and esports companies need to keep in mind some key issues when assessing privacy and cybersecurity obligations. Below are some of the key questions to think through to assess issues related to data use (privacy) and cybersecurity in esports.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 30, 2023

As artificial intelligence, also known as “AI” becomes more of a household word, it is worth pointing out not only how cool it can be, but also how some uses raise privacy concerns. Examples of this are evident in the massive explosion of smartphones and social media.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 5, 2021

Dustin Marlan, The Dystopian Right of Publicity Privacy problems (surveillance) are often analogized to the dystopia of 1984; ROP problems stemming from infinite transferablility can be analogized to Brave New World (1932). Class action ROP lawsuits against social media: result was broader consents in TOS. See her book.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

On September 18, 2023, NetChoice, LLC — a national trade association with members from the tech and social media industry — obtained a preliminary injunction from the District Court for the Northern District of California preventing the State of California from enforcing the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (“AADC” or the “Act”).

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LexBlog IP

JULY 13, 2021

Music is also a vital component of social media platforms, as research displays that nine out of 10 social media users engage in a music related activity on their apps. Taking heed of the GDPR, in early 2020, California passed the California Consumer Privacy Act ( CCPA ).

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

muddies the waters again, challenging orders from privacy authorities in British Columbia and testing current Canadian privacy law. In February 2021, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“the Commissioner”) released a report on Clearview AI, Inc. 17) of personal information. Legal action in British Columbia. 11), use (s.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The availability of a large variety of information has also increased the risk of Copyright Infringement due to its easy accessibility and dissemination. Any user can easily copy, duplicate or access the data without the permission of the author and it is difficult to trace them back due to the issues of privacy and other matters.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 26, 2023

There are several ways, but one common way is for a fraudster to set up a fake website that spoofs a real business, or spoofs a recruiter from a legitimate business by copying their information from a social media platform.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 12, 2022

e-personation case (an edge case from a different era), and the decade-old social media e-discovery cases (mainstream CivPro by now). Taylor about true threats on social media. The Florida and Texas social media censorship laws and the associated court challenges. Defamation and Information Torts.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 8, 2024

It found that the Act’s prohibitions, such as the collecting, sharing, or selling of personal information for age-profiling or other purposes, “limits the ‘availability and use’ of information by certain speakers and for certain purposes and thus regulates protected speech.”

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

faces allegations that it uses facial recognition technology that violates the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The complaint alleged that Clearview scraped over 3 billion images from various social media platforms and other online sources to create a facial recognition database.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 8, 2022

Each of these claims seek to “fault[ ] [Snap] for information provided by [a] third part[y]”—messages and photos sent by Guess-Mazock to Doe. It would take away all of the pro-social uses of Snapchat (don’t laugh, there are many), even in circumstances where the minor users never faced a risk of victimization.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 9, 2023

Since this necessarily involves the collection of personal data, companies like the Premier League sometimes disclose the type of information they collect as part of their privacy policies. This information spans the most basic of identifiers, such as a name, through to suspects’ leisure time activities.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 28, 2021

” Scammers also try to use social media platforms for the same purpose – to scam users out of money or personal information. No matter what, the government will not call you or email you asking you for money or your personal information. If you are not eligible, you will not receive any such communication.

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SpicyIP

JULY 9, 2021

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43(B)log

JANUARY 19, 2022

Consumers and advertisers adequately alleged that Facebook has monopoly power in social network/social media (consumers) and social advertising markets. Plaintiffs successfully alleged that “Facebook acquired and maintained monopoly power by making false representations to users about Facebook’s data privacy practices.”

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Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

JUNE 10, 2020

We live in the digital age of smartphones and social media, where the large scale capturing and sharing of photographs has become a global run-of-the-mill form of communication and expression. The rights in these photographs are typically subject to the licensing schemes of the various social media platforms to which they are posted.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The bill covers social media services, defined as “ a website or application that is accessible in Canada, the primary purpose of which is to facilitate interprovincial or international online communication among users of the website or application by enabling them to access and share content.” Now to the bill with a mini FAQ.

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IPilogue

JULY 9, 2021

In 2015, Austrian law student and privacy activist, Maximillian Schrems, sued Facebook Ireland for what he alleged to be an unlawful transfer of data from Facebook Ireland to Facebook’s headquarters in the United States. organizations receiving information from the EU to attest that they adhere to EU data and human rights laws.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

documentation, methods, weighting factors, information on the model architecture or usage). documentation, methods, weighting factors, information on the model and on the architecture). Think of social media, whose data are scraped and used to train Large Language Models (LLM) (e.g.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MAY 1, 2022

Included in a standard AUP are clauses specifying the purpose and scope of the policy, the user’s rights and responsibilities, acceptable uses, prohibited uses, and privacy standards. For example, creative teams and marketing teams may need greater access to certain social media websites to look for trends. Private Information.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2021

I’ve now framed it as a note about California’s consumer privacy laws. I did not add coverage of the Florida social media censorship law or NetChoice v. Defamation and Information Torts. International Approaches to Liability for Information Torts. I added a new principal case on defamation, Bauer v.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 26, 2023

While plaintiffs’ attorneys were initially focused late last year on suing health care entities for using Pixel and other tracking technology to share information about website users with social media platforms such as Meta (formerly Facebook), they are now eyeing other industries, including the fast food industry.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 27, 2022

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“MEITY”), on 6 th June, 2022, issued a press release along with a proposed draft amendment (“Draft Amendment”) to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (“IT Rules, 2021”). Surabhi Pande and Devvrat Joshi.

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 9, 2023

Digital services revenue can arise from (1) online marketplace services revenue (which would cover an Ebay, Airbnb or Uber), (2) online advertising services revenue (Google or Microsoft), (3) social media services revenue (Facebook or TikTok), and (4) user data revenue (any company that collects and sells user data).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Google , which recognized property interest in personal information). By failing to do so prior to scraping the internet, the defendants did not allow all the class members a right to delete their personal information collected by the defendants, and a right to opt out of the use of that information, which was used to build the Products.

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