Internet, product, and privacy law
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Disclaimer: Reading legal articles on the Internet and naively applying it to your situation would be silly. What follows isn't legal advice, it's general legal information. If you aren't an attorney, consult one. tl;dr
If your job is to implement the GDPR, let me start by saying . . . I'm sorry. I don't know if you pissed off someone powerful, or if you just made poor career choices, but here you are.
A feature update that would be a non-story for almost every tech company can turn into a massive headache for Google. So it goes with the new Chrome auto-sign in feature: > A few weeks ago Google shipped an update to Chr
The Sears consent decree dispels the notion, still common among some clients and some attorneys, that a privacy policy disclosure is a cure-all. Sears released a consumer research app that paid consumers $10 to join an “online community” of Sears Holding
Facebook is reportedly facing a fine of up to $1.6B [https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/04/facebook-data-breach-top-eu-regulator-officially-opens-investigation.html] for last month’s hack of ~50M Facebook accounts (~4M belong
Here’s the background in case you missed it: Google+ had a vulnerability which made it possible for third parties to access, via the Google+ API, private Google+ user data between 2015 and March 2018. Google found no evi
Part of your job as product counsel is to monitor changing perceptions of privacy practices. When those perceptions have changed, you should re-do your legal analysis to ensure it’s still valid.
Your TOS link must be “clear and conspicuous.” Your TOS link needs to be "clear and conspicuous" for it to be binding. “Clear and conspicuous” depends on typography, visual clutter, placement, and language—that is, the f
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If you work at a "regular" tech company and you're warning your clients of fines that are "up to 4% of annual revenue" for GDPR violations, you're misleading them.