Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Note also how governments will weaponize mandatory TOS disclosures, i.e., if you didn’t tell the public them, then they wouldn’t have acted as promises to consumers, but since we compelled you to tell the public, we can now treat them as enforceable promises. No, and it’s not even close. Six4Three v. Kallinen v.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 17, 2023

The Federal Court of Canada last week dismissed the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s complaint against Facebook stemming from alleged privacy violations involving Cambridge Analytica. The Privacy Commissioner ruled against Facebook in 2019, but Facebook disagreed with the findings and took the matter to court.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 25, 2022

The opinion holds that the key parts of Florida’s social media censorship law (SB 7072) likely violate the First Amendment and should remain enjoined. ” The opinion also highlights the madness of the Fifth Circuit allowing the Texas social media censorship law to take effect via a 1-line order. “S.B.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Online privacy is, without a doubt, an area of growing concern. However, with the new Liberal government proposal, legal scholars and law students alike are left wondering if the Canadian Online Harms proposal will do more harm than good. In July 2021, the Canadian government released its plans for addressing online harms.

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IPilogue

JULY 4, 2022

On May 25 th , Human Rights Watch (“HRW”) published a report – “a global investigation of the education technology (EdTech) endorsed by 49 governments for children’s education during the pandemic.” Part 2 will discuss the HRW report’s recommendations and the initiatives being taken to address the risks that EdTech poses to child privacy.

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Michael Geist

MAY 16, 2024

For those new to the bill, the government has called it “fundamentally flawed” since it contemplates measures that raise privacy concerns through mandated age verification technologies, website blocking, and extends far beyond pornography sites to include search and social media.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The government chose to prioritize two flawed bills on online streaming and online news, both of which sparked considerable opposition, lengthy delays, and ultimately delivered few actual benefits ( Bill C-11 faces at least another year of hearings at the CRTC, Bill C-18 is a disaster that has left many media companies worse off).

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The transition from simply turning on the television to logging into accounts such as social media and OTT platforms, has resulted the entertainment industry to witness an astonishing evolution. Image Sources: Shutterstock] This situation gave rise to a conundrum surrounding the issue of data privacy.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In part one of the post he addresses concerns about economic gains and privacy. Other Posts Curing the Rare: Government Issues Tender to Acquire 17 Patented Rare Disease Medicines The threshold for procuring 127 medicines, including drugs for rare diseases, was raised by the Ministry of Finance in its August 9 circular.

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IPilogue

JUNE 1, 2022

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, academic discussions indicated that artificial intelligence (AI) would signify the fourth industrial revolution with tangible economic benefits and potential privacy concerns. Nowadays, privacy concerns exceed personal information protection. .

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In August, Apple made headlines by introducing new privacy features in their upcoming software updates. Over the years, Apple has cultivated a strong reputation as a protector of consumer privacy. One of their core values and popular marketing point s is that “privacy is a fundamental human right.”

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Michael Geist

JANUARY 31, 2024

It may be the most dangerous Internet bill you’ve never heard of since it contemplates measures that raise privacy concerns, website blocking, and extend far beyond pornography sites to include search and social media. Ensure compatibility of Canadian regulations on age-verification with international standards.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 11, 2022

Furthermore, the age authentication process would expose both under-18s and adults to extra privacy and security risks. The bill regulates “social media platforms,” defined as an “electronic medium” that allows “users to create, share, and view user?generated What The Bill Says. generated content.”

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 2, 2023

By contrast, the inclusion of registration requirements for a wide range of undertakings, including some podcast services, online news sites, adult content sites, and social media left some characterizing it as a podcast registry or part of “one of the world’s most repressive online censorship schemes.” So what’s the reality?

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IPilogue

JULY 16, 2021

Reports of racial bias and Canadian privacy law violations weaken the argument for implementing FRT. On June 10, 2021, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (“OPC”) issued a 29-page report on FRT and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (“RCMP”) -related surveillance as it pertains to the Canadian public. What is Clearview?

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Clearview’s AI crawls the internet and can access, download, and store any image uploaded to social media. Many social media companies, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter, have accused Clearview of utilizing user images without authorization. Regulations and Restrictions.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 14, 2023

But given a bill that envisions government-backed censorship, mandates age verification to use search engines or social media sites, and creates a framework for court-ordered website blocking, there is a need to pay attention. The bill, which is the brainchild of Senator Julie Miville-Duchêne , is not a government bill.

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SpicyIP

JULY 27, 2021

We’re pleased to inform you that the Centre for Communication Governance at the National Law University Delhi is inviting applications for various research positions. About the Centre for Communication Governance. For further details, please see the announcement below. Call for Applications: Research Positions at CCG.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

7) Governments loot Google and Facebook under the pretense of “saving” journalism. The term “link taxes” refer to the government compulsion of large Internet services, such as social media or search engines, to pay news media for indexing and publishing their headlines and links.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Keeping Your Data Safe: The Differential Privacy Temporal Map Challenge. However, managing private data has become a serious security risk for individuals, companies, and governments. These prize challenge technologies successfully enable public safety agencies to share data without compromising the privacy of individuals. .

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 17, 2021

On many issues, the reality is the policy platform isn’t all that different from the Liberal government’s approach. We will oppose government censorship of material that is not criminal in nature merely because some may find it to be offensive. User generated content and social media sites would be exempt.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 23, 2023

Bill C-18, the Online News Act, received royal assent yesterday, but any celebrations by the groups who lobbied for unprecedented government intervention into the news sector must surely have been tempered by the reality that quickly emerged. The mistake was not that the government pursued Internet regulation.

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IPilogue

JULY 9, 2021

Yet, these cases also point to the need for a more or less uniform legal order for data governance. In 2015, Austrian law student and privacy activist, Maximillian Schrems, sued Facebook Ireland for what he alleged to be an unlawful transfer of data from Facebook Ireland to Facebook’s headquarters in the United States.

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Michael Geist

JULY 30, 2021

The Canadian government released its plans yesterday for online harms legislation with a process billed as a consultation, but which is better characterized as an advisory notice, since there are few questions, options or apparent interest in hearing what Canadians think of the plans. How does the government intend to address these harms?

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LexBlog IP

JULY 13, 2021

The world of competitive video gaming implicates a complicated patchwork of privacy laws, and esports companies need to keep in mind some key issues when assessing privacy and cybersecurity obligations. Below are some of the key questions to think through to assess issues related to data use (privacy) and cybersecurity in esports.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The idea is that society benefits from more, and better, innovation if innovators don’t need the government’s approval. Those impact assessments will be freely available to government enforcers at their request, which means the regulators and judges are the real audience for those impact assessments.

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 23, 2021

Those plans include the creation of a bureaucratic super-structure that featuring a new Digital Safety Commission, a digital tribunal to rule on content removal, and a social media regulation advisory board. Cynthia Khoo is an Associate at the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law in Washington.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

Today I’m blogging about one of those bills, California AB 2408 , “Social media platform: child users: addiction.” This bill assumes that social media platforms are intentionally addicting kids, so it creates business-ending liability to thwart those alleged addictions. What the Bill Says.

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Michael Geist

MAY 29, 2024

There are many reasons to be concerned about Bill S-210 , the mandated age verification bill that raises significant privacy and freedom of expression risks and which is being improbably backed by Conservative MPs. Actually, if Genuis is looking at the Criminal Code, he needs to look again.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Any user can easily copy, duplicate or access the data without the permission of the author and it is difficult to trace them back due to the issues of privacy and other matters. Wide impact of Multimedia and Social media Multimedia is a much broader concept consisting of text, sounds, audio-video, images, graphics etc.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

After years of delay, the government tabled Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act , earlier today. My immediate response to the government materials was that the bill is significantly different from the 2021 consultation and that many of the worst fears – borne from years of poorly thought out digital policy – have not been realized.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 20, 2024

The government talked up its accomplishments, but on the digital policy front there was little to promote. While there were no specific digital policy bills enacted over the past ten months, the government is moving ahead with its digital services tax that could take effect within days and will likely draw the ire of the U.S.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 24, 2024

While study of social media and online platform private ordering is a very well-established way to find out how providers deal with copyright, data protection and consumer protection, studies of generative AI T&C have been slower to get going. As of February 2024, EU online platforms (not just very large ones or “VLOPs”!)

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Michael Geist

MAY 25, 2022

Bill C-11, much like Bill C-10, has been touted by the government as a measure to ensure that large foreign streaming services contribute to the Canadian cultural sector. When Minister Rodriguez introduced this bill, he stated “we listened to concerns around social media and we fixed it.” First, regulation of user content.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2023

Today’s bottom line for anonymizing privacy services is that they must comply with Russia’s site-blocking demands and open up themselves up to scrutiny. They’re also used to direct behavior in a way that benefits governments and corporations while making it appear that the interests of citizens are paramount.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 27, 2022

The majority of these challenges were raised by media houses and media / journalist associations against Part III or provisions falling under Part III of the IT Rules, 2021, viz. the part of the Rules dealing with / governing publishers of online curated content and publishers of news and current affairs content.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 13, 2021

Music is also a vital component of social media platforms, as research displays that nine out of 10 social media users engage in a music related activity on their apps. Taking heed of the GDPR, in early 2020, California passed the California Consumer Privacy Act ( CCPA ).

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