Socially Aware

June 17, 2016 - Advertising, Online Promotions, Marketing, Ethics, Mobile
Social Links: The ramifications of Microsoft’s LinkedIn purchase; the brands using Snapchat; lawyers’ social media use
By: Aaron P. Rubin
Lots of press surrounding Microsoft’s purchase of LinkedIn: Will LinkedIn change as a result? Will the Microsoft purchase inspire a Twitter acquisition ? “Spam King” gets 30 months in jail for sending 27 million messages. One columnist says you should stop measuring your social
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June 10, 2016 - Advertising, Digital Content, Endorsement Guides, FTC, Disappearing Content, Fraud, Marketing, Ethics, Compliance
Social Links: Social’s potential to upend the investment industry; online ad fraud; a proposal to fix Twitter
By: Aaron P. Rubin
Social media has upended a number of industries. Is Wall Street next ? Facebook is getting into the video game live-streaming business. Steven Avery’s defense attorney is keeping her 163,000 Twitter followers abreast of her ongoing defense work on behalf of the “Making a Murderer” documentary
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April 22, 2016 - European Union, FTC, Protected Speech, Privacy, Employment Law, Ethics, Litigation, Online Endorsements
Social Links—Facebook-spying litigators; employees’ social media posts; Europe’s Right To Be Forgotten
By: Aaron P. Rubin
Defense lawyers who checked out the Facebook page of a plaintiff suing their client can be prosecuted for attorney misconduct, New Jersey judge rules. Norwegian band changes its name to avoid “ social media censorship .” Can public agencies control their employees’ social media
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September 30, 2015 - Cyberbullying, Privacy, Ethics, Litigation
Status Updates: Court nixes VPPA claim; lawyer suspended over blog posts; Facebook ‘unfriending’ cited in bullying decision
By: Aaron P. Rubin
Tale of the tape. The Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), which requires video service providers to destroy personally identifiable information after a specified time, doesn’t provide a private right of action for plaintiffs whose information was retained beyond that period. So held the U.S.
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April 03, 2014 - Internet of Things, FTC, Privacy, Ethics, IP
The Internet of Things Part 2: The Old Problem Squared
By: Alistair Maughan
Cisco estimates that 25 billion devices will be connected in the Internet of Things (IoT) by 2015, and 50 billion by 2020. Analyst firm IDC makes an even bolder prediction: 212 billion connected devices by 2020. This massive increase in connectedness will drive a
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June 11, 2013 - E-Commerce, Ethics
Playing Fair? UK’s OFT Investigates Online and App-Based Games
On April 12, 2013, the UK’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT), the UK regulator for consumer affairs and competition, announced that it was launching an investigation into children’s web- and app-based games. In particular, the OFT is looking into whether such games comply with
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June 05, 2013 - Infographic, Ethics
New UK Press Self-Regulation – With a Small Blog Exemption
Following concerns raised by bloggers, the UK government has clarified that small blogs will be exempt from the scope of the new UK press watchdog which is to be introduced as a result of the findings of the Leveson Inquiry. In 2007, Clive Goodman,
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May 30, 2012 - Ethics, Litigation
Should We All Be Getting the Twitter “Jitters”? Be Careful What You Say Online (Particularly in the United Kingdom)
By: Alistair Maughan
History is littered with examples of the law being slow to catch up with the use of technology. Social media is no exception. As our Socially Aware blog attests, countries around the world are having to think fast to apply legal norms to rapidly
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April 26, 2012 - Privacy, Ethics, Litigation
A Dirty Job: TheDirty.com Cases Show the Limits of CDA Section 230
We’ve reported before on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), the 1996 statute that states, “[n]o provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” Courts
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Topic Archives: Ethics

Social Links: The ramifications of Microsoft’s LinkedIn purchase; the brands using Snapchat; lawyers’ social media use

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Social Links: Social’s potential to upend the investment industry; online ad fraud; a proposal to fix Twitter

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Social Links—Facebook-spying litigators; employees’ social media posts; Europe’s Right To Be Forgotten

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Status Updates: Court nixes VPPA claim; lawyer suspended over blog posts; Facebook ‘unfriending’ cited in bullying decision

By: Aaron P. Rubin

The Internet of Things Part 2: The Old Problem Squared

By: Alistair Maughan

Playing Fair? UK’s OFT Investigates Online and App-Based Games

New UK Press Self-Regulation – With a Small Blog Exemption

Should We All Be Getting the Twitter “Jitters”? Be Careful What You Say Online (Particularly in the United Kingdom)

By: Alistair Maughan

A Dirty Job: TheDirty.com Cases Show the Limits of CDA Section 230