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. While the platform introduced additional security measures , such as end-to-end encryption, this past year, its user activity reports prompted many questions.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 2, 2022

Plaintiffs sued MyLife for selling background reports about them and furnishing “public reputation scores.” The plaintiffs argued that Section 230 nevertheless does not apply to credit reporting agencies as defined in the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). ” Article III Standing. ” Section 230. The Shah v.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 20, 2023

“[N]o legacy is so rich as honesty” 1 might fairly summarize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s theme to the advertising industry for 2023, as gleaned from the National Advertising Division (NAD) 2022 Annual Report. What Privacy-Related Claims Does Your Company Make? Nothing less will do.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 28, 2021

data privacy : what businesses NEED TO know. Keeping pace with the state of data privacy and data privacy regulations is becoming a pressing responsibility for businesses in the digital age. Data privacy legislation is on the rise, with jurisdictions adopting stricter protective measures on a national and global front.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Dark patterns were also specifically called out in a number of new state privacy laws. A recently released FTC staff report on dark patterns indicates that this focus is only growing, and that dark patterns can encompass a wide range of common marketing practices – from urgency offers to fee disclosures.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 6, 2022

2021 was a rough year for many businesses, but there was at least one winner: in a recent blog post , privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo reported a record growth of over 46 percent and now claims to serve more than 27 million Americans. This post was authored by C. Blair Robinson, legal intern at Robinson+Cole.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

of global trade; and in a recent EU IPO report, it was found that as many as 1 in 3 people have been misled into buying counterfeits. Goods placed on the market in the EU are deemed to have exhausted trade mark rights for the purposes of the UK, but not the other way round. Its reach is wider than that; and that’s not a bad thing.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Promoting innovation and competition in AI, such as through public-private partnerships, addressing intellectual property issues in ways that “Protect inventors and creators”, and ensuring market competition and opportunities for small businesses. ” Improving government use of AI.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For some time now, dark patterns have been quite the trending topic for both marketers and privacy professionals. Late last week, the FTC issued its report following up on the workshop. In any event, the report does provide at least some additional insights that may help marketers to avoid unlawful dark patterns.

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Olartemoure Blog

AUGUST 10, 2022

Worldwide, on 2022 companies are planning to invest over US$1M on privacy initiatives, resulting in the fact that companies with higher revenues tend to invest larger sums. Competitive and reputational matters : privacy is one of the current motives which drives consumer choices in the marketplace. 2 Consumer Privacy Survey.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 16, 2021

Blackbaud “provides data collection and maintenance software solutions for administration, fundraising, marketing, and analytics to social good entities such as non-profit organizations, foundations, educational institutions, faith communities, and healthcare organizations.” 24. * Californians: VOTE NO ON PROP.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 4, 2023

According to Meta’s report, “to target businesses, malicious groups often first go after the personal accounts of people who manage or are connected to business pages and advertising accounts. .” ” The Meta report provides useful tools to guard against these attacks and responses in the event a device is affected.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 18, 2022

VPNs are valuable tools for people who want to use the Internet securely with decent privacy. anti-abortion laws have increased the interest in privacy services as potential criminal penalties come into play. One of the problems, however, is that not all VPN services take privacy seriously. This isn’t a new revelation.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Executive Order covers several important issues but fails to address other significant issues.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In our latest Privacy and Security Roundup , we cover the Senate-passed bill that includes nearly $2 billion in national cybersecurity funding, recent sanctions by the SEC on investment advisors and broker-dealers, a new initiative that aims to improve defense planning and information sharing between the public and private sectors, and more. .”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 10, 2022

HDR offers “strategic communications” services to their clients, which includes monitoring and reporting on community sentiment/conversations about their projects. The plaintiff sued HDR for ECPA and common law privacy violations. The court rejects both claims. For similar reasons, the common law claim fails. Implications.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 28, 2023

Plus, DPIAs pose potential security risks due to the sensitive and confidential nature of the information contained within the reports. Default Privacy Settings. Enforce published terms, policies, and community standards established by the business, including but not limited to privacy policies and those concerning children.”

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Whois Privacy. Copyright holders have complained about these privacy services for years. To make matters worse for copyright holders, the EU’s GDPR privacy law only made it harder to identify domain owners. The music industry group submitted its notorious markets comments to the USTR last week. RIAA Calls Out ICANN.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 19, 2021

A class of plaintiffs sued the credit bureau TransUnion, alleging that they were improperly placed on a “watch list” that TransUnion offered to supplement credit reports. If “Joe Smith” was on the OFAC list, TransUnion flagged the credit reports of all Joe Smiths. The class consisted of approximately 8,000 members.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

VPNs are valuable tools for people who want to access the Internet securely and with decent privacy. “This is an obvious trade barrier and real threat to the free market,” ACT writes in its letter to the USTR. In an earlier trade barrier report, the U.S. ” China Too. . ” U.S. These concerns are not new.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

SPB1] Likewise, the court held that the Act’s mandates, such as creating and providing the DPIA report, regulate the distribution of speech because it compels speech. The DPIA report is not currently designed to capture this type of product design that can have dangerous, albeit unintentional, effects.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 19, 2021

These recommendations are part of a Report of the Standing Committee, which recommended revising Indian’s IPR legislation to ‘extract benefits from AI’. The Report accordingly recommends amending Indian patent law, to make AI-generated works and AI solutions patentable. Kluwer Trademark Blog reported here on this ruling.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 7, 2022

In 2015, the chief judge at Finland’s Market Court questioned whether the system had the resources to cope but that didn’t deter those seeking to turn piracy into profit. The Market Court ruled that the subscribers should be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. Initial Victory For Internet Subscribers.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This action follows the FTC’s September publication of “ Bringing Dark Patterns to Light ,” a report demonstrating companies’ increased use of design practices known as “dark patterns” to influence consumers buying behavior (the “Staff Report”). The FTC’s latest enforcement action confirms that message. Why do they matter to you?

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Federal Circuit issues a partial remand asking the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) to analyze the distinctiveness of the “BROOKLYN BREW SHOP” trademark; the Copyright Royalty Board finalizes its ratemaking determination for statutory licenses on digital performances of sound recordings; China’s IP (..)

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 1, 2023

New Lawsuit, New Determination Filed at a Washington court early August 2023, a new complaint alleging copyright infringement, breaches of the DMCA, and civil RICO violations, among others, targeted up to 50 developers, marketers, customer support staff, and sellers of Destiny 2 cheating software offered by Ring-1.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Shanghai Data Exchange aims to build “a data factor market” and “promote data capitalization.” Still, data brokering is obscenely lucrative, with some market projections expecting the data brokering industry to hit $365.71 ” Or, in plain terms, it wants to create a stock exchange for personal data.

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Olartemoure Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

08/04/22 – Data Privacy. In addition, the new regulation establishes guidelines for payment initiation activities, further clarifies the rules for marketing financial services through electronic platforms and reiterates measures to protect consumers and ensures proper operation of the system. Source in Spanish.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 26, 2022

Even more so, millions of users could set up an account on the Website, which Defendants operate, own, and created, to acquire ‘access to a database containing proprietary ‘detailed reports’ about people to anybody willing to pay for a monthly subscription.'” Background Reports Protected by Section 230–Dennis v. Whitepages.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2023

When the report was published early December 2022, just one of the most popular apps was listed in the ‘Piracy Apps’ section. “Stakeholders from the audiovisual sector reported IPTV Smarters for inclusion in the Watch List as an IPTV turnkey solution from India,” the Commission wrote ( pdf ).

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Many arrests have been reported too, not to mention anti-piracy action in the ‘ metaverse ‘, which may (or may not) yet exist. A reported 1.5 For owners of devices set for the market or even sitting at home, Anatel has just issued a reminder that illegal set-top boxes are punishable with a fine.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 31, 2023

IIPA aims to improve copyright protection and enforcement in overseas markets with high levels of piracy. The IIPA’s submission begins by painting a picture of creativity and productivity in the United States versus an “entrenchment of infringing services” in foreign markets.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 7, 2022

Recent reports from several European Data Protection Authorities (DPAs), the bodies empowered to regulate consumer privacy under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), have ruled that Google Analytics violates the law. Privacy Shield framework in Schrems II.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 10, 2023

[i] The primary objective behind such a regulation is to deal with new and emerging challenges in digital lending landscape such as unbridled engagement of third parties, mis-selling, breach of data privacy, unfair business conduct, charging of exorbitant interest rates, and unethical recovery practices used by lending platforms.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It could also undercut the commercial market for books and works already created; this is because, on demand, the Products are able not only to summarize books in detail, chapter by chapter, but also to regenerate the text of books (§ I.B.110-111). 4th 1149 (9th Cir. 3d 723, 743 (9th Cir. 2019); Worldwide Church of God vs Phila.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Services already filter CSAM automatically (PhotoDNA) & report CSAM to law enforcement. Other actions you can take (but calling your elected officials is always the most impactful): [link] noearnitact.org and [link] act.eff.org/action/stop-th e-earn-it-act-to-save-our-privacy.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As a result, the case has been cited in many separate copyright infringement discussions since, sometimes with references to how those devices were marketed and the sellers’ stated aim of allowing customers to access content for free. This decision came after the evaluation to protect our clients and their privacy. We at Ultra.cc

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