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Cozen O'Connor

No Buyer’s Remorse for Nebraska AG Over Temu Data Use Lawsuit

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Nebraska AG Mike Hilgers sued PDD Holdings Inc. and WhaleCo Inc., d/b/a Temu, alleging that Temu’s shopping app operates as malware designed to gain unauthorized access to users’ data in violation of state consumer protection...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

CRTC Quashes CASL Findings Against Online Intermediaries - But Avoids the Elephant in the Room

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The CRTC has overturned a 2018 staff finding that two online advertising intermediaries aided an unknown party with respect to the installation of malware on Canadian government computers, contrary to s. 9 of Canada’s...more

Bennett Jones LLP

CRTC Issues $250,000 in Penalties for Malware Distribution

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Canada’s anti-spam law (CASL) addresses much more than unwanted commercial messages. CASL also prohibits, among other things, installation of software onto a person’s computer without consent. The Canadian Radio-television...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Advertising Litigation Report: Vol. 2, No. 2 - Consumer Privacy and Data Security

Judge Trims Proposed Class Action Over Wendy’s Data Breach - Torres v. Wendy’s Int’l, LLC, No. 16-cv-0210 (PGB) (DCI) (M.D. Fla. Mar. 21, 2017). A U.S. district court judge in Florida trimmed a proposed class action...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Malvertising: Senate Committee Releases Report

Terms like “web security” and “data breach” are now familiar to most Americans in light of recent, significant issues with the websites and databases of some large U.S. companies. But web security encompasses more than just...more

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