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Corporate Counsel

Suit Says Facebook Ad Tool Discriminates Against Minorities Seeking Jobs, Housing

Facebook Inc. has been hit with a lawsuit claiming that it violates federal anti-discrimination laws for housing and employment by allowing advertisers to exclude certain groups on the basis of race, gender or religion in social media ads.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Hash(tagging) it Out: Litigation in the New Media Age

Companies finding themselves in the trenches of litigation today are bombarded early and often by tweets, posts, and online articles often based on a one-sided view.
14 minute read

Legaltech News

Hash(tagging) it Out: Litigation in the New Media Age

More than ever before, companies are forced to consider whether and how to fight back outside the courthouse with the help of social media.
13 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

FJD on Lookout for Filings Against 'Phantom' Defendants

Word of defamation cases filed in Philadelphia courts against nonexistent "phantom" defendants has reached the First Judicial District, and judges are now on the lookout for them.
12 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Facebook Tells UK Insurer Not to Read Users' Post Data to Set Prices

Facebook denied UK insurance company Admiral's plan to scan potential customers' posts on the social network to gather information used in setting their individual prices, according to Business Insider.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

$335K Sanction for Former Law Student Who Trashed Ex-Husband's Online Reputation

A former law student is learning about defamation the hard way--with a $335,000 sanction for posting anonymous reviews online about her physician ex-husband.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Zynga Attorney: Augmented Reality Games Pose Hard Legal Questions

With the massive success of PokÉmon Go, every gaming company has to ask how they can use augmented reality, says Deborah Davis Han, senior counsel at social gaming company Zynga Inc. But augmented reality, which combines real places with virtual characters or objects, raises a number of questions for the legal department.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Facebook Unlikely to Face Lawsuits Over Ethnicity-Based Ad Tool

Facebook Inc. is facing backlash over a report that it allowed advertisers to exclude certain ethnicities from seeing ads. But it is unlikely to face litigation, even though some civil rights lawyers say the advertising tool enables unlawful discrimination.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Guilty Plea for Former Rutgers Student Charged With Spying in Tyler Clementi Case

Dharun Ravi, 24, pleads guilty to a single third-degree charge of invasion of privacy for spying on former Rutgers roommate Tyler Clementi's encounter with another man and sharing it on social media . Clementi committed suicide days later. An appeals court threw out other counts last month and ordered a new trial.
10 minute read

Legaltech News

Little Chance ICANN Will Lose US Internet Control, So What's the Future?

One last-ditch effort by four state attorneys general was rejected by a federal court, despite the states' argument that turning internet oversight over to ICANN was unconstitutional.
6 minute read

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