App Developers Get More Guidance for Complying With COPPA
After giving the mobile app industry a few years of heartburn over the breadth and ambiguity of its expanded Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule, the Federal Trade Commission has...
View ArticleRampolla Calls Out AR Companies for Alleged Astroturfing
Last week, AR blogger and Augmented Legality friend Joseph Rampolla published the results of his investigation into a group of individuals affiliated with the companies AugmentedRealityTrends.com (a...
View ArticleTop 5 Legal Issues in the Internet of Things, Part 3: Bandwidth
Over the past two weeks. I’ve written about the privacy implications of the Internet of Things (IoT), with respect to both data security and surreptitious collection of information. Today we consider a...
View ArticleTop 5 Legal Issues in the Internet of Things, Part 4: Copyright
Imagine a world in which each box of Lego® bricks you buy is a standalone toy–unable to combine with the bricks from any other set. That, of course, is the opposite of the real world. As was...
View ArticleTop 5 Legal Issues in the Internet of Things, Part 5: Physical Safety
alberto racatumba / flickr In this series of articles on the Internet of Things, we’ve examined two ways in which IoT devices can be intentionally abused (data security, invasion of privacy), and two...
View ArticleFTC Responds to Questions on Social Media Endorsements
|In 2009, the Federal Trade Commission put the social media world on edge when it released updated Endorsement Guidelines that made it clear that they were watching social media for deceptive and...
View ArticleThe Internet of Things That Eavesdrop and Invade Privacy
A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit shed light on theories plaintiffs will use in privacy litigation against owners of Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices. cory...
View ArticleTweet This to Win … a #Nastygram From the NAD
As I’ve blogged about previously, the Federal Trade Commission takes a dim view of contests that encourage consumers to post a message in social media as a means of entering a contest. Its reasoning is...
View ArticleWhen Cars Talk to Each Other, Will Driver Privacy Suffer?
Your privacy interest in the data collected by your car may seem like an abstract issue. After all, we typically think of such data being stored, if at all, within the vehicle itself. But what about...
View ArticleLegal and Regulatory Warnings for AR/VR Startups
Live-blogging from Augmented World Expo 2017 photo credit Mark Piszczor Yesterday afternoon I had the pleasure of presenting with Captain Joe Rampolla on Legal and Regulatory Updates at AWE 2017. The...
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