TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Pirate Troubles One of the ‘pirate’ issues GitHub faces is a constant stream of scammy pirate advertisements posted to the site. 31,151 Removed Repos This week, GitHub updated its transparency report with the latest data, revealing the total number of notices received and projects affected.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 8, 2025

In today’s report the usual suspects dominate the top slots – google.com, microsoft.com, mail.ru These sites are often able, for at least a short time, to monetize using CPM based ad products [advertisers pay a fixed rate per thousand impressions] such as display / video / audio ads.” and facebook.com.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 10, 2022

HDR offers “strategic communications” services to their clients, which includes monitoring and reporting on community sentiment/conversations about their projects. The plaintiff sued HDR for ECPA and common law privacy violations. The court rejects both claims. For similar reasons, the common law claim fails. Implications.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 18, 2021

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JD Supra Law

MAY 6, 2024

About two years ago, McDonald’s advertised a sale on family-sized containers of ice cream called “Blast Ice Cream” in Israel. The advertisement’s headline was “Maayan will be happy to hear… Blast Party: Blast Ice Cream in a family-sized carton.” By: Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 19, 2023

App piracy includes legitimate apps that are copied but we reserve our reporting to those that are advertised as a gateway to pirated content or live streams. Some apps may monetize user data, for example, but for the vast majority advertising is the income stream of choice.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 30, 2021

Amidst growing concerns about online privacy and security, VPN services have become increasingly popular in recent years. The movie companies further allege that VPN customers are engaged in other types of “outrageous conduct” under this privacy shield, including racist comments, child pornography, and even committing murder.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 28, 2021

data privacy : what businesses NEED TO know. Keeping pace with the state of data privacy and data privacy regulations is becoming a pressing responsibility for businesses in the digital age. Data privacy legislation is on the rise, with jurisdictions adopting stricter protective measures on a national and global front.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MAY 3, 2021

Michael Costanza filed a $100 million lawsuit against Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David (the show’s co-creator), and NBC for invasion of privacy, defamation, and being cast in a false light. Specifically, sections 50 and 51 of New York’s Civil Rights Law provide the only basis for a right of privacy in the state. This is where it gets juicy.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

CTAM wanted to combat an escalating content piracy industry that was robbing legitimate content creators of their intellectual property and risking the privacy and safety of content users. The Blacklight Privacy Inspector had a look at StreamSafely.com and reported back with its findings.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Plaintiff argues that CDA immunity does not apply, “because Seamless actively created the profiles and advertising webpages giving rise to this suit.” Defendant argues that Plaintiff’s name or likeness appearing in a string of search results on the same page as a paywall option does not create an unlawful advertisement.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 31, 2023

A report on general compliance was the overriding theme. Report Satisfied Judge, New Injunction Awarded Before Rogers, Bell, TVA, and the other plaintiffs were able to renew their injunction, the Court reviewed the experts’ report to ensure that its instructions had been followed.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Dark patterns were also specifically called out in a number of new state privacy laws. A recently released FTC staff report on dark patterns indicates that this focus is only growing, and that dark patterns can encompass a wide range of common marketing practices – from urgency offers to fee disclosures.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 6, 2022

2021 was a rough year for many businesses, but there was at least one winner: in a recent blog post , privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo reported a record growth of over 46 percent and now claims to serve more than 27 million Americans. This post was authored by C. Blair Robinson, legal intern at Robinson+Cole.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 15, 2023

Over the past several months, we have repeatedly reported on Google’s decision to voluntarily remove pirate sites from its search results. This includes the privacy-centered search engine DuckDuckGo. Last year we reported on an issue with disappearing pirate sites at DuckDuckgo. Colateral Damage.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 27, 2022

VPN services are a useful tool to protect internet users’ online privacy. While this often goes against the terms of service, some VPNs openly advertise this feature. In addition, they can also help to bypass geographical restrictions. Blocking Geo-Pirates. This ‘geo piracy’ issue isn’t new.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 16, 2021

New Mexico’s Attorney General, Hector Balderas, continues to champion children’s online privacy protections, this time settling with Google over alleged violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The New Mexico AG is making a name for himself in the area of children’s privacy.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 26, 2022

Even more so, millions of users could set up an account on the Website, which Defendants operate, own, and created, to acquire ‘access to a database containing proprietary ‘detailed reports’ about people to anybody willing to pay for a monthly subscription.'” Background Reports Protected by Section 230–Dennis v.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The report that Google is conducting a national test that removes links to Canadian news sites for a small percentage of users sparked a predictable reaction as politicians who were warned that Bill C-18 could lead to this, now want to know how it could happen. It's about them reselling the data from your online activity to advertisers.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Back in August we reported how Google had received requests to remove one billion allegedly-infringing links from its search results. A few days before we published that report, Google had just processed its seven billionth removal request, having reached six billion less than a year earlier. But that’s only the beginning.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For some time now, dark patterns have been quite the trending topic for both marketers and privacy professionals. But back here, other than high-level, broad definitions that could theoretically deem advertising itself a dark pattern, there has been a lack of clarity on the issue. Scope and magnitude matter.

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IPilogue

MARCH 22, 2023

Privacy Misrepresentation According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) release , BetterHelp requires a questionnaire that asks for sensitive mental health information – “such as whether they have experienced depression or suicidal thoughts and are on any medications” – along with personal information.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Defendants also use privacy protection services to hide their names and contact information from the public domain name WHOIS database.” . “Many Defendants do not provide any contact information such as a physical address, email address, or phone number, and conduct their transactions entirely pseudonymously.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

An interim order issued by a single-judge bench of the Delhi High Court recognised the right to be forgotten (RTBF) as a subset of the fundamental right to privacy. The Kerala High Court had recognised a petitioner’s right to privacy and reputation while seeking the removal of their name from judgments published on IndianKanoon.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We always look forward to the thoughtful and data-rich report National Appeals Division (NAD) issues each year summarizing the work it has accomplished in the past year. Some of the data can be a bit difficult to parse, as some numbers are reported in cases decided in the prior year, while other numbers are reported in cases filed.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 12, 2022

Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed the Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring Act (CPDPA) into law on May 10, 2022, making Connecticut the most recent state to pass its own privacy law in the absence of comprehensive federal privacy legislation.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

According to reporting from the Verge and the Markup, several popular e-filing providers have been transmitting sensitive financial information to Meta through Meta Pixel. The Meta Pixel service allows Meta to tailor advertising profiles for users regardless of whether they have a Facebook account.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

“All stakeholders in the internet ecosystem, including hosting providers, DNS providers, cloud services, advertising networks, payment processors, social media platforms, and search engines, should proactively work towards reducing support for well-known infringing sites,” BREIN writes in its submission.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 11, 2023

The newspaper’s print and digital formats reach over 6 million readers every week, with Report on Business magazine reaching over 2.5 Over the course of my time at The Globe, I gained vast and multidisciplinary experience, but three major themes emerged within my practical and research work: privacy, contracts, and data protection.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

That’s if older mainstream content scratches the itch and users don’t mind lots of advertising. That resulted in a large fine for privacy breaches but didn’t deter a more recent proposal to remotely delete pirate apps from users’ phones. Something For Everybody If showman P.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2021

In particular, they are having some success bending Section 230, and this genre offers some interesting considerations for folks paying attention to the privacy/230 borders. Whitepages decision , a more significant decision than I initially thought, the plaintiffs are making progress in the early rounds of their cases. Callahan v.

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The IPKat

JULY 13, 2021

In early June, the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law ’s Center for Intellectual Property, Information, and Privacy Law organized and hosted its 12th Annual Ethics in the Practice of IP Law virtual seminar. Gene and John then joined in on a panel discussion moderated by Alex Menchaca (McAndrews, Held & Malloy Ltd.).

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IPilogue

JUNE 27, 2022

(Facebook) was liable under several provincial privacy statutes for using class members’ likenesses without their consent. . Through Sponsored Stories, advertisers pay Facebook to associate their mark on Facebook’s social media website with users that performed certain social actions in connection with the advertiser (e.g.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Read literally, all advertising “allow[s] for arranging the sale or purchase of goods,” so this law potentially obligates EVERY ad-supported publisher to undertake the content moderation obligations the bill imposes on online marketplaces. ” [Does this create an affirmative obligation to include images?

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 11, 2023

IP workshops with Bulgarian officials, and international law enforcement cooperation, the Bulgarian P2P network, and major content release16 hub, RARBG ended its operations at the end of May 2023,” MPA writes, referring to our earlier reporting. The Public Internet Registry (.org) net, Dy2018.com, com, dygod.net, and Ygdy8.com

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

“Ancestry attempts to expand the understanding of public affairs from reporting on events and public persons to anything that may interest private individuals.” The court dismisses the claim because there’s probably no privacy interest in yearbook photos, and publishing them isn’t sufficiently offensive.

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IP Intelligence

JULY 17, 2023

s generative AI technology, including whether OpenAI has engaged in “unfair or deceptive privacy or data security practices” or “unfair or deceptive practices relating to risks of harm to consumers, including reputational harm.” The FTC has launched an investigation of OpenAI Inc.’s

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