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McDermott Will & Schulte

Protecting LGBTQ+ online privacy in 2025

A recent amicus brief filed by LGBT Tech, with the support of a coalition of LGBTQ+ advocacy organisations and legal counsel from McDermott Will & Emery, carries significant weight in ongoing jurisprudence regarding online...more

BakerHostetler

DSIR Deeper Dive: A Big Year for VPPA Developments

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The past year has brought a number of federal appellate rulings under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), 18 U.S.C. § 2710, one of the statutes under which plaintiffs have been filing numerous claims in recent years...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Advertisers Bear Burden of Proving Individuals’ Consent to Appear in Ads, B.C. Court Rules – Also Holds that Legislatures Cannot...

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In Douez v. Facebook, Inc., 2022 BCSC 914, the Supreme Court of British Columbia (the “Court”) held that Facebook used class members’ names and images in its “Sponsored Stories” advertising program without their consent,...more

Sunstein LLP

Exploitation of Publicly Available Website Data May be Unstoppable

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Data scraping is a technique by which automated tools are used to extract data from a website and format the data for analysis. Many companies mine website users’ publicly accessible data in order to tailor products and...more

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