Socially Aware

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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March 19, 2019 - Advertising, Digital Content, Cyberbullying, Privacy, Big Data, COPPA, Free Speech
YouTube disallows ads on anti-vax content; privacy bills aim to extend children’s protections from Internet harm, secure users’ control over data
By: Julie O'Neill
New York is now one of the 43 states where “revenge porn,” the posting of explicit photographs or videos to the Internet without the subject’s consent, is punishable by law. See how far the states have come – find out how many had criminalized
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November 08, 2017 - Privacy, Stored Communications Act, Big Data, Compliance
SCOTUS to Resolve Lower-Court Dispute Over U.S. Warrants Seeking Foreign-Stored User Data
The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 16, 2017, announced it had granted the government’s petition for certiorari in United States v. Microsoft and will hear a case this Term that could have lasting implications for how technology companies interact with the U.S government and
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November 07, 2016 - Terms of Use, UK, Big Data, Ethics, Litigation
Social Links: LinkedIn’s new feature estimates salaries; states grapple with digital-asset-inheritance laws; insurance company wants to base rates on applicants’ Facebook posts
By: Aaron P. Rubin
Because it bases its assessments on job title, location and industry, LinkedIn’s new Salary feature might be more accurate than are other online compensation estimation tools. States are trying to pass laws that balance bereaved people’s desire to access their deceased loved ones’ social media accounts
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June 02, 2016 - FTC, Big Data, Employment Law, Compliance, Litigation
Big Data Can Lead to Big Legal Problems For Companies
By: Mary Race
Deluged with an unprecedented amount of information available for analysis, companies in just about every industry are discovering increasingly sophisticated ways to make market observations, predictions and evaluations. Big Data can help companies make decisions ranging from which candidates to hire to which consumers
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April 15, 2016 - First Amendment, Marketing, Big Data, Litigation
Social Links: A social media marketing fail; Facebook and prisoners, jurors, older people
By: Aaron P. Rubin
We’re trying something new here at Socially Aware : In addition to our usual social-media and tech-law analyses and updates, we’re going to end each work week with a list of links to interesting social media stories around the Web, primarily things that caught
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March 09, 2016 - European Union, Data Security, Privacy, Big Data
Privacy Shield vs. Safe Harbor: A Different Name for an Improved Agreement?
The European Commission (the “Commission”) and the U.S. Department of Commerce issued the draft legal texts for the much anticipated EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (the “Shield”), set to replace the currently inoperative Safe Harbor program (“Safe Harbor”). The new agreement is aimed at restoring the
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January 13, 2016 - FTC, Data Security, Privacy, Big Data, Compliance
Big Data, Big Challenges: FTC Report Warns of Potential Discriminatory Effects of Big Data
By: Mary Race and Julie O'Neill
In a new report , the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) declines to call for new laws but makes clear that it will continue to use its existing tools it to aggressively police unfair, deceptive—or otherwise illegal—uses of big data. Businesses that conduct big data analytics,
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Topic Archives: Big Data

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

YouTube disallows ads on anti-vax content; privacy bills aim to extend children’s protections from Internet harm, secure users’ control over data

By: Julie O'Neill

SCOTUS to Resolve Lower-Court Dispute Over U.S. Warrants Seeking Foreign-Stored User Data

Social Links: LinkedIn’s new feature estimates salaries; states grapple with digital-asset-inheritance laws; insurance company wants to base rates on applicants’ Facebook posts

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Big Data Can Lead to Big Legal Problems For Companies

By: Mary Race

Social Links: A social media marketing fail; Facebook and prisoners, jurors, older people

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Privacy Shield vs. Safe Harbor: A Different Name for an Improved Agreement?

Big Data, Big Challenges: FTC Report Warns of Potential Discriminatory Effects of Big Data

By: Mary Race and Julie O'Neill