Technology, Privacy & Media
Data, platforms, advertising, and the law catching up to them.
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Technology, Privacy & Media
Web Scraping and Automated Data Collection: Access, Contract, and Copyright
Whether an automated collector is lawful is really four separate questions. Federal access law has narrowed, which pushed the fight toward contract, server burden, and copyright.
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Technology, Privacy & Media
Data Broker Laws: Registration, Deletion Requests, and Opt-Out Rights
Deleting your data, opting out of its sale, and disputing a credit file are three different rights. Registration duties come from state statutes, not from any general federal law.
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Technology, Privacy & Media
Online Reviews and Defamation: Opinion, Fact, Evidence, and Platform Issues
Harsh reviews are usually protected opinion. The line is verifiability, and it decides most disputes long before anyone argues about damages or reputation.
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Technology, Privacy & Media
Influencer and Endorsement Disclosures Under FTC Advertising Rules
A sponsored post has to tell an ordinary reader who paid for it, in a place they cannot miss. Here is what counts as a material connection and where disclosures usually fail.
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Technology, Privacy & Media
Email Marketing and the CAN-SPAM Rules Senders Overlook
The federal email statute is misunderstood in both directions: it demands less consent than marketers think, and it reaches further up the chain than they expect.
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Technology, Privacy & Media
Recording Calls and Meetings: One-Party and All-Party Consent
Federal law lets a participant record a call. A number of states do not. When the two people are in different states, courts have not agreed on which rule wins.
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Technology, Privacy & Media
Terms of Service and Clickwrap: When an Online Agreement Binds
Courts deciding whether online terms bind rarely argue about the clauses. They argue about the screen: what it showed, where the link sat, and what the user had to click.
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Technology, Privacy & Media
Domain Names and Website Transfers: Registrar Locks, Escrow, and Disputes
A domain is a registration, not a deed. Understanding auth codes, transfer locks, and the gap between a registrar transfer and a change of registrant prevents most stalled website sales.
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Technology, Privacy & Media
Software Escrow and Source-Code Access in Vendor Agreements
A source-code escrow is only as good as its trigger clause and its deposit. Here is what actually arrives on release day, and what a customer usually discovers is missing.
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Technology, Privacy & Media
Right to Repair Laws: Parts, Documentation, and Warranty Effects
Two separate legal engines drive repair rights: patchy state statutes that force manufacturers to supply parts and manuals, and a federal warranty law that limits tie-in service conditions.
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Technology, Privacy & Media
Deepfakes and Synthetic Media: Emerging State Rules on Likeness and Elections
Synthetic media law is not one rule but three clusters, each with its own enforcer and its own remedy. Sorting which cluster a problem belongs to is the first practical step.
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