Who Owns Your Social Media Account?
The impact of social media is being felt in many aspects of users’ daily lives, and is also generating interesting questions about how this impact will play out in the…
Tech News: Facebook Email Fiasco & ICANN Top Level Domains
I mentioned in my last post, privacy is looming large in the social media space again this year, and users are really making social network operators sit up and pay…
Following up on Technology Predictions for 2012
So we’re about halfway through 2012, and I thought it would be a good time to see how my predictions for hot topics in social media and the law are…
Paying Attention to Sites Terms of Service Pays Off
This post comes to you from Washington, D.C., where I’ve been attending the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law Annual Meeting. Social media definitely was among the…
Social Media & The Law: 5 Hot Topics in 2012
Happy new year, Social Media Club members. Given the recent protest over the SOPA and PIPA acts via web blackouts of sites like Wikipedia, 2012 is looking to be another…
Legal questions to ask when creating social media policies
Social media policies are another hot and constantly developing area of the law today. For this month’s post, I am following up on Jessica’s post about making sure your social…
User Privacy Policies in the News
In my last post I talked about the hot topic of who owns users’ geolocation data that apps collect. This post I’m discussing what seems to be a perpetual hot…
Protecting Users Geolocation Data
Geolocation is certainly a hot topic, with everyone from social network operators to app developers looking to find ways to include location information and hopefully monetize it. But geolocation information…
Always consider your online activity could be used in court
Lately I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the impact of what we post and say online. Living in Orlando and watching the coverage of the high profile Casey Anthony…
Social Media and the Law
The intersection of new technologies like social media and the law seems to be quite a busy place. It seems that every day I read at least one or more…