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Empowering Children in the Online Era with Katie Schumacher

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In this episode of The Sandwich Generation Survival Guide, host Candace Dellacona welcomes Katie Schumacher, founder of Don't Press Send, to discuss the challenges and responsibilities faced by the sandwich generation when...more

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

Supreme Court Rules for Twitter and Declines to Address Section 230 in Much-Anticipated ISIS Case

On May 18, 2023, in Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh et al., the United States Supreme Court ruled against an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (“ISIS”) attack victim’s family who sought to hold Twitter, and other social media...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

UK Law May Create ‘Duty of Care’ for Social Media Companies

The UK is reportedly considering legislation that would impose a ‘duty of care’ on social media companies to regulate harmful content on their platforms. This push for an online safety bill was triggered by the high-profile...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

The Law on Online Content Moderation and Where It's Headed

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Online platforms that allow users to post content face a constant choice: to remove or to not remove, to police or not to police. Shakespearean allusions aside, platforms generally want user engagement — to reach as many...more

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Stopping Online Infringement

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Substantively, copyright protection is the same in the digital world and on the internet as in traditional form. The only practical difference is the likelihood that the copyright will be infringed. Works available in cyber...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

A New Filter For Section 230: Snapchat Court Joins Lawmakers In Chipping Away At Social Media Immunity

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Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act (codified at 47 U.S.C. § 230 (“Section 230”)) has long been credited for the boom of user generated content on the internet — the crux of social media that has driven the...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Should CDA Section 230 Be Changed?

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In the current environment of reckoning for the societal power of Big Tech, one threat seems ever-present on the tongues of those who would cut these companies down to size. Enacting this threat is likely to have the opposite...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

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Ruling from Europe’s High Court: “Active” Consent Required for Cookies

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) – the European Union’s equivalent to the US Supreme Court – has issued a very important ruling with respect to cookie compliance that may require re-evaluation of your cookie...more

Brooks Pierce

Like Incorporating Facebook into your Website? EU Decision Raises New Issues

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A ruling by the highest court in the European Union regarding the common practice of putting a Facebook “Like” button on a website could have repercussions for American companies doing business overseas. In late July, the...more

Jones Day

ECJ Rules Companies Using Social Plugins Are Joint Controllers

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The Situation: Fashion ID, a German online clothing retailer, embedded on its website the Facebook "Like" button. When a user consults the website of Fashion ID, that user's personal data are transmitted to Facebook Ireland....more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Client Alert: Using Facebook’s “Like” Button Makes Websites Responsible for Data

Website plug-ins such as Facebook’s “Like” button are becoming increasingly common on websites to promote websites’ products and services on social media platforms.  However, a recent ruling by the European Union Court of...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Website Operator Jointly Liable for Data Collection and Transmission Through Facebook "Like" Button

On July 29, 2019, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued its decision in FashionID (Case C-40/17), determining that website operators are jointly liable with plugin providers for data collection and transmission through...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Legislators Propose Narrowing § 230’s Protections

As we have frequently noted on Socially Aware, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects social media sites and other online platforms from liability for user-generated content. Sometimes referred to as “the law...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Appeals Court Again Upholds Section 230 Protections in Case Against Grindr

Often hailed as the law that gave us the modern Internet, Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act generally protects online platforms from liability for content posted by third parties. Many commentators, including us...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

The Decline and Fall of Section 230?

2016 has been a tough year for a lot of reasons, most of which are outside the scope of this blog (though if you’d like to hear our thoughts about Bowie, Prince or Leonard Cohen, feel free to drop us a line). But one possible...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Controversial California Court Decision Significantly Narrows a Crucial Liability Safe Harbor for Website Operators

A recent California court decision involving Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) is creating considerable concern among social media companies and other website operators....more

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