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User Data
29 published works
Future Lawyer
Don’t Hate Facebook Because It Knows When Your Birthdays Are.
By rickgeorges
You quit Facebook, now you don't know when anyone's birthday is. As the sun rises on my birthday, and my relatives, friends, and Facebook friends kindly remind me that they…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Facebook Brings Suit against Mobile Marketing Firm for Siphoning User Data without Authorization
In continuing its push to enforce its terms and policies against developers that engage in unauthorized collection or scraping of user data, Facebook brought suit last month against mobile marketing…
Corporate and Securities Law
Facebook: Hypothetical Risk Factors are Insufficient Disclosure When the Risk has Occurred
Taft Technology and Artificial Intelligence Insights
An Apple Box of Reasons Why the U.S. Needs a GDPR
For several years now, it’s been widely known how Google and Facebook abuse the privacy of users. Apple Inc. always insisted it was different. A recent ad proclaimed “What happens…
SDNY Blog
Judge Oetken Enforces “Faustian Bargain” of Free Software In Exchange for User Data
In an opinion Wednesday, Judge Oetken ruled that it was not unconscionable for UnrollMe, a provider of free software to help unsubscribe consumers from unwanted email, to enforce the users'…
Technology Law Dispatch
European Commission VP comments on harmonisation and monetising user data, and guidance on the direct application of the GDPR is issued
By Cynthia O’Donoghue, John O'Brien
On 28 February 2018, Andrus Ansip, the European Commission (Commission) Vice President and commissioner responsible for the Digital Single Market strategy, commented that all companies should be able to monetise…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Craigslist Garners $60 Million Judgment against Radpad in Scraping Dispute
For years, craigslist has aggressively used technological and legal methods to prevent unauthorized parties from violating its terms of use by scraping, linking to or accessing user postings for their…
IP Intelligence
Thumbs Up or Down? Facebook Forced to Disclose Market Data for User Messages
Facebook, the world’s largest social network, is no stranger to litigation or criticism for its utilization of user data that has resulted in lawsuits. And one of those in particular…
IP Intelligence
Thumbs Up or Down? Facebook Forced to Disclose Market Data for User Messages
Facebook, the world’s largest social network, is no stranger to litigation or criticism for its utilization of user data that has resulted in lawsuits. And one of those in particular…
ContractsProf Blog
Uber’s New (No) Privacy Policy
Uber has announced changes to its privacy policy which take effect July 15. These changes would allow Uber to do more than rate you - it would allow them to…