John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 7, 2014

'The post Viacom v. Cable One: A Foreshadowing of Things To Come in The Battle for the Open Web? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Viacom’s rather one-sided POV on why its blocked web access for Cable One providers. Image via @TheLadyH86. So it’s come to this. We’re all familiar with disputes between cable providers and their content partners – it happens all the time.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 9, 2014

On May 8, 2014, the Federal Trade Commission announced a proposed settlement with Snapchat, Inc. (“Snapchat”) stemming from allegations that the company’s privacy policy misrepresented its privacy and security practices, including how the Snapchat mobile app worked. Snapchat’s app supposedly allowed users to send and receive photo and video messages known as “snaps” that would “disappear forever” after a certain time period.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 4, 2014

'The post Else 5.5.14: Stay Sober, My Friend (And Watch Your F8) appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) Cinco de Mayo on a Monday? What fresh hell is this? Just another week of links worth reading, if you care about the most muscular narrative in our beer-goggled world. Facebook (and Wired) dominated thanks to news from it F8 developer conference, but policy and politics were not far behind.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 9, 2014

On May 9, 2014, the Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with clothing manufacturer American Apparel related to charges that the company falsely claimed to comply with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework. According to the FTC’s complaint , the company violated Section 5 of the FTC Act by deceptively representing, through statements in its privacy policy, that it held a current Safe Harbor certification even though it had allowed the certification to expire.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 8, 2014

Hunton & Williams LLP’s Centre for Information Policy Leadership president, Bojana Bellamy , has been selected to participate in the “Privacy Bridge Project,” a new transatlantic initiative that seeks to develop practical solutions to bridge the gap between European and U.S. privacy regimes. Bellamy joins a distinguished group of approximately 20 privacy experts from the EU and U.S., convened by Jacob Kohnstamm, Chairman of the Dutch Data Protection Authority and former Chairman of the Artic

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 7, 2014

On May 6, 2014, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) announced a new proposed rule impacting privacy notices that financial institutions are required to issue under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLB”). Under the current GLB Privacy Rule, financial institutions must mail an annual privacy notice (the “GLB Privacy Notice”) to their customers that sets forth how they collect, use and disclose those customers’ nonpublic personal information (“NPI”) and whether customers may limit such sh

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 7, 2014

On April 21, 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance published new Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (“C&DIs”) concerning the use of social media in certain securities offerings, business combinations and proxy contests. Notably, the C&DIs permit the use of an active hyperlink to satisfy the cautionary legend requirements in social media communications when the social media platform limits the text or number of characters that may be include

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 7, 2014

On May 6, 2014, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada announced the Global Privacy Enforcement Network’s (“GPEN’s”) second annual enforcement sweep. The sweep will focus on mobile app privacy and how mobile apps collect and use personal data. From May 12 to 18, 2014, GPEN member authorities “will be looking at the types of permissions an app is seeking, whether those permissions exceed what would be expected based on the app’s functionality, and most importantly from a transparency pe

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 6, 2014

On February 18, 2014, the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court issued a ruling addressing the use of opt-out notices for web analytics tools. The case concerned Piwik web analytics software and its “AnonymizeIP” function. The court held that website users must be informed clearly about their right to object to the creation of pseudonymized usage profiles.

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