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Decoding Cease-and-Desist Letters: A Guide to Navigating Wiretap Allegations Linked to Meta Pixel Use

Traverse Legal Blog

Introduction Uptik in Threat Letters & Legal Actions: A Wake-Up Call for Companies Using Meta Pixel In recent years, the digital landscape has become a battleground for privacy rights, with Meta Pixel at the epicenter of numerous legal disputes. alleges violations of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act among other claims.

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Decoding Cease-and-Desist Letters: A Guide to Navigating Wiretap Allegations Linked to Meta Pixel Use

LexBlog IP

Introduction Uptik in Threat Letters & Legal Actions: A Wake-Up Call for Companies Using Meta Pixel In recent years, the digital landscape has become a battleground for privacy rights, with Meta Pixel at the epicenter of numerous legal disputes. alleges violations of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act among other claims.

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Chegg Is Likely to Prevail on Its Anti-Scraping CFAA Claim…But Doesn’t Get an Injunction–Chegg v. Doe (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Chegg sent a cease-and-desist letter to Homeworkify’s domain registrar, Namecheap, its proxy server, Cloudflare, and the email address associated with domain registration, but they have found nothing. When doing so, defendant had to agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy. Those terms and privacy policies were hyperlinked.

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Once Again, LinkedIn Can’t Use CFAA To Stop Unwanted Scraping–hiQ v. LinkedIn

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The court remains skeptical of LinkedIn’s privacy-based arguments: LinkedIn has no protected property interest in the data contributed by its users, as the users retain ownership over their profiles. ” Does this mean that courts will reject any claim, including a TTC claim, that could lead to “information monopolies”?

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September Privacy and Security Roundup: Funding national cybersecurity, violating Safeguards Rule and fighting cyber threats

LexBlog IP

In our latest Privacy and Security Roundup , we cover the Senate-passed bill that includes nearly $2 billion in national cybersecurity funding, recent sanctions by the SEC on investment advisors and broker-dealers, a new initiative that aims to improve defense planning and information sharing between the public and private sectors, and more.

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Court Dissolves hiQ’s Injunction Against LinkedIn–hiQ v. LinkedIn

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Specifically, it was “a ‘people analytics’ company that provided information to businesses about their workforces based on statistical analysis of LinkedIn members’ wholly public profiles.” LinkedIn appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. hiQ was a data snarfer. hiQ sought relief from the courts.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Google changed its privacy policy to collect all “public” data (viz., And to characterize zero-click online terms of use that are imposed by cease-and-desist letter as enforceable contracts is horrible policy and bad law. Just in the last year, OpenAI released ChatGPT. StabilityAI exploded. But that’s a different article.)