Socially Aware

August 29, 2024 - Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Copyright
Social Links: Deepfakes, AI, and the Continuing Saga of Reddit
By: Lawrence W. Gallick, Anthony M. Ramirez and Aaron P. Rubin
Lingo Telecom, a Georgia-based VoIP service operator, has agreed to pay a $1 million fine for using AI-generated deepfake technology to spoof President Joe Biden’s voice in a series of robocalls. A Louisiana political consultant had previously been indicted for arranging and financing the calls,
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August 16, 2024 - Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Fair Use, First Amendment, Fraud, SEC, Section 230 Safe Harbor
Social Links: August 2024
By: Lawrence W. Gallick, Anthony M. Ramirez and Aaron P. Rubin
Social media giant TikTok has been sued by the United States for allegedly collecting data on children under thirteen illegally. The suit claims the app, which is owned by China-based parent company ByteDance, allowed millions of children to create accounts without parental knowledge or
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May 20, 2024 - Advertising, Data Security, Privacy, Social Media Policy
State Lawmakers Introduce Laws Governing Teen Use of Social Media
By: Lawrence W. Gallick and Lindsay B. Harris
In case you haven’t noticed, state legislatures have been hard at work drafting, passing, and trying to pass laws that govern minors’ use of social media. Several states have passed laws requiring social media companies to implement certain policies, including age verification and parental
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February 14, 2024 - Advertising, Compliance, Free Speech, Privacy, Social Media Policy
Court Prohibits Ohio’s AG From Enforcing Social Media Parental Notification Act
By: Lawrence W. Gallick and Aaron P. Rubin
A court in the Southern District of Ohio has issued a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the Social Media Parental Notification Act, an Ohio law that would require social media platforms to obtain parental consent for users under 16. NetChoice LLC, an industry group
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February 02, 2024 - Artificial Intelligence, Section 230 Safe Harbor, Copyright, Online Promotions, Advertising
Social Links: AI Continues to Make the Headlines in 2024
By: Aaron P. Rubin, Julie O'Neill and Anthony M. Ramirez
Welcome to 2024 from Socially Aware! We’ve been tracking developments in the law and business of social media and related topics from end of last year into the beginning of the new year. Here are some of the trending developments that have caught our
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April 04, 2022 - Advertising, Digital Content, E-Commerce, Privacy, Social Media Policy
Social Links: Behavioral targeting under scrutiny from lawmakers
By: Aaron P. Rubin, Julie O'Neill and Anthony M. Ramirez
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill continue to take aim at social media platforms that collect and use personal information that build algorithms to target individuals across a variety of dimensions when users engage with those platforms, most prominently in the form of advertising and other
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November 15, 2021 - Advertising, Class Actions, Big Data, Copyright
Social Links: Embedding social media posts can be considered copyright infringement…but is it?
By: Aaron P. Rubin, Julie O'Neill and Anthony M. Ramirez
Social Links is our ongoing series here at Socially Aware that rounds up current developments at the intersection of social media, policy, research, and the law. Embedding social media posts can be considered copyright infringement…but is it? A Manhattan federal judge ruled in August
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October 19, 2020 - Advertising, FCC, Influencer Marketing, Discovery, Free Speech
Turkey’s new social media law; social media ad spend; Harvard Law School’s social media policy
By: Anthony M. Ramirez
In an attempt to shut down free speech online, Turkey enacted a law that requires social media platforms with more than a million daily users in Turkey to open an office there or assign a representative who is legally accountable to Turkish authorities. Among
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July 21, 2020 - Advertising, Litigation
Stretching the Bounds of Personal Jurisdiction, 4th Circuit Finds Geotargeted Advertising May Subject Foreign Website Owner to Personal Jurisdiction in the U.S.
By: J. Alexander Lawrence
Foreign websites that use geotargeted advertising may be subject to personal jurisdiction in the United States, even if they have no physical presence in the United States and do not specifically target their services to the United States, according to a new ruling from
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January 13, 2020 - Advertising, Influencer Marketing, Defamation, Section 230 Safe Harbor, COPPA
Social Links: YouTube bans some targeted ads; big changes afoot on Twitter; Facebook plans to remove ‘deep fakes’
By: Aaron P. Rubin
In a move that might be part of a settlement that YouTube has entered into with the Federal Trade Commission , the video-sharing site said it will ban “targeted” advertisements on videos likely to be watched by children. Because targeted ads rely on information
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Topic Archives: Advertising

Social Links: Deepfakes, AI, and the Continuing Saga of Reddit

By: Lawrence W. Gallick, Anthony M. Ramirez and Aaron P. Rubin

Social Links: August 2024

By: Lawrence W. Gallick, Anthony M. Ramirez and Aaron P. Rubin

State Lawmakers Introduce Laws Governing Teen Use of Social Media

By: Lawrence W. Gallick and Lindsay B. Harris

Court Prohibits Ohio’s AG From Enforcing Social Media Parental Notification Act

By: Lawrence W. Gallick and Aaron P. Rubin

Social Links: AI Continues to Make the Headlines in 2024

By: Aaron P. Rubin, Julie O'Neill and Anthony M. Ramirez

Social Links: Behavioral targeting under scrutiny from lawmakers

By: Aaron P. Rubin, Julie O'Neill and Anthony M. Ramirez

Social Links: Embedding social media posts can be considered copyright infringement…but is it?

By: Aaron P. Rubin, Julie O'Neill and Anthony M. Ramirez

Turkey’s new social media law; social media ad spend; Harvard Law School’s social media policy

By: Anthony M. Ramirez

Stretching the Bounds of Personal Jurisdiction, 4th Circuit Finds Geotargeted Advertising May Subject Foreign Website Owner to Personal Jurisdiction in the U.S.

By: J. Alexander Lawrence

Social Links: YouTube bans some targeted ads; big changes afoot on Twitter; Facebook plans to remove ‘deep fakes’

By: Aaron P. Rubin