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

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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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adult venue's insurer did not successfully exclude ads from ad injury coverage

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Princeton insured Wonderland from 2016-2018 (with a broad exclusion for defamation, invasion of privacy, and various forms of advertising injury in the second year called the Exhibitions and Related Marketing Exclusion), and agreed to defend the club but reserved the right to deny insurance coverage.

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FTC Prohibits X-Mode Social/Outlogic from Selling Sensitive Location Data

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” The FTC’s settlement with X-Mode/Outlogic marks its first with a “data broker concerning the collection and sale of sensitive location information.” ” The FTC’s settlement with X-Mode/Outlogic marks its first with a “data broker concerning the collection and sale of sensitive location information.”

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Tim Hortons Wants to Settle Data Privacy Lawsuits with Free Breakfast

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The investigation found that Tim Hortons had contracted with a third party to determine consumers’ spending habits and target ads by tracking their location data. Tim Hortons filed a settlement proposal at the end of June, offering to give eligible consumers a complimentary coffee and a bakery good.

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Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

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Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. The flexibility of contracts makes them a prime candidate for restricting uses that copyright law leaves unprohibited. That still leaves a rather broad space for contract law to effectively limit the use of information.

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Guest Post: Judgment Preservation Insurance and the Federal Circuit

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policy premium might offer a guarantee of 80% recovery, or $80m, if the appeal results in a settlement, or if full recovery is otherwise stymied—remand, lack of collectability, or another adverse intervening event. 2] In this example—taken from a pitch—a $12.5m But anything much higher than that seems, to most in the field, foolish.

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VPN Service will Block BitTorrent and Keep Logs to Settle Piracy Lawsuit

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He has not transacted any business in Virginia or contracted to supply services or things in Virginia.” In August, the parties already informed the court that they were working on a settlement, which has since been finalized. website we don’t see these changes reflected in the company’s privacy policy yet.