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Do Mandatory Age Verification Laws Conflict with Biometric Privacy Laws?–Kuklinski v. Binance

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

California passed the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) nominally to protect children’s privacy, but at the same time, the AADC requires businesses to do an age “assurance” of all their users, children and adults alike. Doing age assurance/age verification raises substantial privacy risks.

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Poorly Executed “Sign-in-Wrap” Contract Formation Process Fails–Berman v. Freedom Financial

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The court confirms that to ensure enforceability, consumers should (1) check the box and (2) be advised that checking the box will indicate assent to contract terms. These basic principles “apply with equal force to contracts formed online.” Freedom Financial Network, LLC. The underlying case is a putative TCPA class action.

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Two More Cases Compel Arbitration for Dubious Online Contracts (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy The intersection of the Federal Arbitration Act and the law of online contracts has become utterly corrosive to our legal system. The problem with the FAA and online contracts, of course, is that no one is agreeing to arbitrate anything. Consumer Contracts (Tent. Many people think this is true.

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Smart Contracts and IP Licensing: Automating Royalties and Payments with Blockchain

Intepat

Smart contracts, a technology popularized by blockchain, offer a new approach to managing these transactions. Unlike traditional contracts , smart contracts are self-executing programs on a blockchain that automatically enforce terms when predetermined conditions are met. In the U.S.,

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X Corp. v. Bright Data is the Decision We’ve Been Waiting For (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

If the issue lies in loopholes within the ToS, the solution seems straightforward: draft tighter contracts and perhaps incorporate a browsewrap on your platforms to catch those who don’t hold accounts. X’s breach of contract cases against CCDH for violating its ToS by scraping also didn’t fare well. In 2022, in ML Genius v.

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More Chaos in the Law of Online Contract Formation

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Another 3k+ word post about the jurisprudential chaos in online contract formation law. But ultimately, the onus is on Disney to create a contract formation process so conspicuous that a court can’t reach decisions like this. ” What does the court want to see in the “to” field…? ” * Doe v.

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Open AI’s vison for a social contract – of things to come…

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This statement sets out OpenAI’s vison for a ‘social contract for content in AI’. However, OpenAI then states that it ‘[feels] that it’s important we contribute to the development of a broadly beneficial social contract for content in the AI age.’