"Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown" — Henry IV, Part 2. No one would blame Google for feeling apprehensive about its relationship        ..read more

As should be clear, if the Court were to rule against social media companies in even one of these cases, the ramifications would be significant for the companies, their advertisers, and their users.        ..read more

For companies caught in a hate or misinformation campaign, the playing field is as complex. Senior executives, board members, and advisors who become the public face of a targeted attack can be doxxed or subjected to death threats.        ..read more

Seven senators wrote a letter to the Federal Trade Commission Thursday expressing concerns about the "integrity and safety" of the Twitter platform.        ..read more

"Big Tech is watching us, but Silicon Valley needs to know that we are watching them too, and if they violate our consumer-protection laws, we will take strong action to protect our citizens," Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody said.        ..read more

On Oct. 7, President Biden signed Executive Order 14086 on "Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities," which serves as the first step toward restoring the free flow of European personal data to U.S. businesses. In this article, Michael Kleinman and Talia Bulka write that the order "contains some serious substantive improvements, but it is far from the "no spy" agreement that European privacy activists have demanded."        ..read more

The Colorado district court has entered $4.2 million in statutory damages against Micfo, a defunct infrastructure as service company, for contributory and vicarious infringements of the copyrights of 28 movies.        ..read more

To hold interactive computer services liable for the consequences of their recommendations or even search results will not break the internet, but it will certainly bend it.        ..read more

The web is bad enough, when it comes to invasion of privacy, but the Dark Web is something else altogether. In the unique case of Clemens v. ExecuPharm, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 24808 (Sept. 2, 2022) (Greenaway, Jr., C.J.), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit had the opportunity of looking at the harm caused to a company employee when her privacy was invaded by the ominous Dark Web.        ..read more

This article features litigation insight from ALM's new Trend Detection system. This proprietary system uncovers shifts and patterns in case filings using advanced data analysis and expert curation. Trend Detection is included with Law.com Radar as part of a Law.com subscription.        ..read more