Boston v. Athearn, 2014 Ga. App. LEXIS 664 The Georgia Court of Appeals held that the parents of a seventh-grade student may be negligent for failing to have their child to delete a fake Facebook profile that allegedly defamed a classmate. Two seventh-graders created a fake Facebook account for a classmate using a computer supplied […]
Nathan M. Crystal will be speaking at the ABA Section of International Law’s 2014 North America Forum: “Doing Business within the Region and Collaborating Abroad” conference, which will be held on November 17-18, 2014 at the Pan Pacific Vancouver Hotel in Vancouver. The conference will explore best practices for international companies doing business in North America […]
It is reported that two Bitcoin exchange companies (Texas-based Bitcoin Savings & Trust and Florida-based Cryptsy) have been sued for allegedly buying and selling crypto-currencies using false and misleading claims of easy profits, high returns, and little risk. According to the complaints, the companies used deceptive and misleading tactics, such as claims of weekly profits of 7% […]
On September 19, 2014, the National Labor Relations Board’s Office of the General Counsel released an Advice Memorandum according to which employees posting blog entries, entries on social networking web sites or wikis, or texting must make clear that the views expressed by them are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of […]
Nathan M. Crystal & Francesca Giannoni-Crystal, Reconciling US and EU approaches to cloud contracts, 22 PL&B International, October 2014, Issue 131, www.privacylaws.com Read the article For information: Francesca Giannoni-Crystal Follow us on& Like us on
Tags: CLOUD COMPUTING, DATA PROTECTION, INTERNATIONAL DATA PROTECTION, US PRIVACY
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari to hear a decision from the Ninth Circuit that struck down a 2008 ordinance of the city of Los Angeles requiring that hotel guest records “be made available to any officer of the Los Angeles Police Department for inspection.” Patel v. City of Los Angeles. The ordinance requires hotels to […]
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On October 20, 2014, the Northern District Court of California found that Apple did not infringe two patents owned by GPNE Corp, a patent-holding company. GPNE’s position was that by selling iPhones and iPads Apple infringed two patents related to technology for communicating across cellular networks. GPNE sought $94 million in damages. The jury found […]
Ellis v. The Cartoon Network, Inc., CIVIL ACTION FILE NO. 1:14-CV-484-TWT., 2014 BL 283139 (N.D. Ga. Oct. 08, 2014) On October 8, 2014, the Northern District Court of Georgia dismissed a class action brought for violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”) concluding that a mobile device identifier does not constitute personally identifiable information. […]
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On October 8, 2014, TD Bank agreed to pay $850,000 and enhance data security safeguards after an investigation by nine state attorneys general because of a data breach. In 2012 the attorneys started the investigation after a locked bag containing two Backup Tapes with personal information of the banks customers went missing. The conduct allegedly […]
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On October 15, 2014, the Professional Ethics Committee for the State Bar of Texas communicated its decision to reconsider Opinion 642, according to which law firms cannot use “officer” or “principal” in job title for non-lawyers. The Committee Chair said that: “At this point I do not know what the outcome of the reconsideration will […]