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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has, yet again, held that data scraping public websites is not unlawful. hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp., decided ...
Companies seeking insurance coverage for losses from cyberattacks received good news this month. The New Jersey Superior Court for Union County found ...
The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has certified a question to the Illinois Supreme Court over the accrual of claims under the Illinois ...
A quick recap of recent antitrust-related developments in semiconductors, real estate, college sports, insurance brokerage, digital advertising, ...
A biometric information privacy protection bill introduced in the New York Assembly this month is pending in that body’s Consumer Affairs and ...
This is especially true in antitrust, where industries and markets undergo constant change brought about by innovation and changing consumer ...
Jonathan Rubin, Jennifer M. Oliver
December 10, 2020Facebook’s acquisitions of one-time rivals Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 drew a great deal of criticism from pro-competition experts. And ...
News of a data breach at Dickey’s Barbeque broke in October 2020, revealing that the payment card information of three million customers’ had been ...
In late May 2020 by online stationery and crafts company Minted disclosed that it had suffered a breach that compromised millions of consumers’ ...
MoginRubin LLP, Jennifer Oliver
December 02, 2020In its 56-page Feb. 13 report, the GAO listed three issues that should be considered: Which agency or agencies should oversee Internet privacy. What ...
By Jonathan Rubin The case involves questions "on the frontier edges" of U.S. antitrust law, according to the judge overseeing it. It is a legal ...
At a conference earlier this year on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, Assistant Treasury Secretary Thomas P. Feddo ...
Dan Mogin, Jonathan Rubin, Jennifer M. Oliver, and Timothy Z. LaComb
October 15, 2020'Apple wanted us out of the App Store.' In January 2018 Apple investors complained publicly about the lack of parental controls on their popular ...
While rare, this use of CFIUS powers may be a harbinger. Making good on his threats and citing national security risks, President Donald J. Trump ...
On Feb. 24, 2020, the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals revived refusal-to-deal and tying claims brought against Comcast Corp. by Viamedia Inc. ...
Jonathan Rubin, Timothy Z. LaComb
June 16, 2020Driven by competitive pressure and pandemic-related losses, Uber Technologies Inc. has expressed its intention to acquire competitor Grubhub Inc. to ...
Antitrust law doesn't take a back seat to bankruptcy. While bankruptcy is no one's idea of a dream, the beauty of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code is that it ...
Live Nation Threatens Anyone Who Doesn’t Play Along, Plaintiffs Allege Concert-goers tired of paying “supracompetitive fees” on ticket purchases from ...
Big Tech mergers make big headlines, but there is much more to a deal than how much money changes hands. More important questions need to be ...
The U.S. Treasury Department’s final regulations, giving it more power to scrutinize any national security risks that may arise from deals between ...
Claiming Comcast Corp. is using its significant buying power and ambitious nationwide acquisition strategy to dominate the lucrative regional sports ...
You have to give Google credit. It’s no quitter. Despite pressure in the United States and Europe that might tell other companies to take a breath, ...
Reuters broke the story that the Treasury Department’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is conducting a national security ...
Moderator & Speaker: Daniel J. Mogin | Managing Partner, MoginRubin LLP Speakers: Jennifer M. Oliver, CIPP/US | Partner, MoginRubin LLP Thomas N. ...
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed several amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. Issues range from the timing of ...
Several amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 are headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. Issues range from the timing of employer ...
September 30, 2019, was a big day for college athletics. Alongside Lakers’ star LeBron James (who ironically skipped college), California Governor ...
Timothy Z. LaComb, Jennifer M. Oliver
October 05, 2019While Facebook is under assault from multiple agencies and branches of government in the U.S. and Europe, it received a little good news from ...
Google says cookies are good. They are critical to generating advertising revenue and they help the company improve its product from functionality ...
Mandatory arbitration clauses in California just became a lot less mandatory. The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals handed consumers in three ...
Jennifer M. Oliver, Timothy Z. LaComb
July 09, 2019Maine -- Governor Janet Mills signed the state’s tough new consumer privacy act into law June 6, requiring internet providers to obtain a consumer’s ...
Jennifer M. Oliver, Nicole Ambrosetti
June 14, 2019The newly proposed New York Privacy Act, S5642, would give consumers substantial control over the use of their personal data, such as the right to ...
Jennifer M. Oliver, Nicole Ambrosetti
June 07, 2019The line of politicians, regulators, and legislators in the U.S. and abroad expressing serious concerns about the market power held by big technology ...
The committee has been playing a bigger role on the global M&A stage, figuring prominently in the U.S.-China trade war and putting the breaks on ...
The Appropriations Committee of the California Senate on May 17 halted efforts to add to the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) a private ...
Companies will want to know of the often similar but frequently very different requirements created by the California Consumer Privacy Protection Act ...
On Friday, April 12, 2019, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) introduced the Privacy Bill of Rights Act "in the wake of a series of revelations about ...
SACRAMENTO -- April 10, 2019 -- The California Senate Standing Committee on Judiciary yesterday voted 5-3 in support of SB 561 which would expand the ...
The landmark California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 granted consumers new rights to protect themselves with respect to the collection and use of ...
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood told CNBC on Monday, March 18, that he is developing his antitrust case against Google similar to the one ...
Bipartisan legislation to improve the cybersecurity of Internet-connected devices was introduced March 11 in both the Senate and the House of ...
In a move that could redefine how 2.6 billion people use Facebook Messenger and Facebook’s acquired WhatsApp and Instagram apps, The New York Times ...
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