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Nervous System: How Packet Data Built the Internet

"The pace of technological change is slower than it feels, and many seemingly new categories of threats have been with us longer than we remember," writes David Kalat of Berkeley Research Group.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

A Website Is Not a 'Place.' What Took So Long To Get This Right?

Two recent decisions holding that stand-alone websites are not places of public accommodation subject to the protections of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act have reopened a legal issue that many considered settled in the Southern District of New York. This potential trend provides hope for e-commerce businesses facing nuisance website accessibility lawsuits.
10 minute read

Legaltech News

Legal IT Professionals: Beware the Seven Deadly Vulnerabilities of Domain Names

Legal IT professionals, and anyone whose job intersects with domains, need to know about the seven deadly vulnerabilities of domain names. If ignored, these pitfalls can cause severe damage and increase risks of bad actors interfering with the law firm's or company's domains.
10 minute read

National Law Journal

9th Circuit Drills Down on Venue Issue in Privacy Suit Against E-Commerce Platform

"An electronic signal is sent over [and] something is implanted on a device that is in California," Judge Daniel Collins said. "It takes data in California from a device in California and ships it out of California. The claim is that the collection and transmission of the data violates California statutes. How does that conduct not occur in California?"
4 minute read

Law.com

Hyperlinked Documents: The Latest E-Discovery Challenge

As courts and discovery experts debate whether hyperlinked content should be treated the same as traditional attachments, legal practitioners are grappling with the technical and legal complexities of collecting, analyzing and reviewing these documents in real-world cases.
8 minute read

Law.com

In Social Media-Related Suits, Courts Must Apply Discovery Rule on Case-by-Case Basis, Mass. Justices Say

"Given how 'vast' the social media universe is on the Internet, and how access to, and the ability to search for, social media posts may vary from platform to platform and even from post to post, that determination requires consideration of the totality of the circumstances regarding the social media posting, including the extent of its distribution, and the accessibility and searchability of the posting," Chief Justice Scott L. Kafker said.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Appeals Court Upholds Ruling That an Online Archive's Book Sharing Violated Copyright Law

In a statement Wednesday, the president and CEO of the Association of American Publishers, Maria Pallante, called the decision a victory for the publishing community.
3 minute read

The Recorder

9th Circuit Lifts Portions of Injunction Blocking California's Kids Online Safety Law

A three-judge panel agreed that some reporting language in the Age-Appropriate Design Code Act is unconstitutional. But the district court should not have blocked other provisions, the judges said.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Should Internet Service Providers Be on Hook for Copyright Infringment? ISP Asks Justices Billion-Dollar Question

Only the U.S. Supreme Court can resolve the sharp division among federal circuit courts regarding standards of online liability, Cox Communications says.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

DOJ's Lawsuit Against TikTok Signals Warning to Other Online Platforms on Child Privacy, Lawyers Say

"We've seen a lot of action from the FTC on privacy recently, and COPPA [the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act] is one of the areas where they have the clearest authority," said Eric Null, of the Center for Democracy & Technology.
4 minute read

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