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Category Archives: Privacy & Security
Facebook agrees to 20-Year Privacy Settlement with FTC
In a release today, the U.S. FTC announced that “Facebook has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public. The proposed settlement requires Facebook to take several steps to make… Continue Reading
Annual Legal Checkup for Web Sites and Services
With the new year, you should review your web sites and offerings to see if they need any updates on the legal side. Consider this 6 point list. These are the most common updates I see, not a complete list. Your business may need more. Updating the site’s copyright notice to include the new year,… Continue Reading
New Development in Location Privacy
This Washington Post article discusses a federal district court ruling last month, which apparently is the first to hold that the government must obtain a warrant based on probable cause of criminal activity before seeking location-based cell phone records. According to an update to the article, two other district court rulings previously found that the… Continue Reading
Data Scraping from Web Services
This month’s Wired magazine has a perceptive article about so-called "data scraping" or "screen scraping" practices. It discusses the practical aspects of data scraping (such as IP address banning or blocking as a practical remedy to prevent scraping), use of cease and desist letters, and use of properly-licensed web services application programming interfaces (API’s) as… Continue Reading