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Plaintiffs Tried to Plead Around Section 230. It Didn’t Work–Ziencik v. Snap

Eric Goldman

To get around the obvious Section 230 problem that the plaintiffs’ claims are actually based on the third party’s harassing content, the plaintiffs affirmatively disclaimed that they were suing based on the harasser’s messages or Snap’s failure to block him. The plaintiffs tried again, with the same result.

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Think Kiwi Farms Is Legally Unassailable? Copyright Law Might Disagree–Greer v. Moon

Eric Goldman

The court says these allegations are sufficient for direct copyright infringement: Mr. Greer alleged he discovered the book “had been illegally put onto Kiwi Farms” in January 2018. For unexplained reasons, it does not appear that the defendants are invoking the 512 defense. CloudFlare’s block ). Direct Infringement.

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Effective Access Controls, Timely Breach Notification, and Other Takeaways from the Latest NYDFS Cyber Resolution

Debevoise Data Blog

In addition to the $3 million fine, National Securities must undertake various risk-mitigation measures in an effort to prevent future incidents. In addition to the $3 million fine, National Securities must undertake various risk-mitigation measures in an effort to prevent future incidents.

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European Data Protection Roundup: 2020 in Five Trends

Debevoise Data Blog

million against telecommunications operator TIM for unsolicited marketing calls £20 million against British Airways for its 2018 data breach £18.4 million against Marriott for its 2018 data breach When you dig deeper though, two key points emerge. Meaningful differences in DPAs’ enforcement agendas may, therefore, be emerging.

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European Data Protection Roundup – September

Debevoise Data Blog

million fine against Austrian Post for channelling electronic data protection-related inquiries to a web form and not offering an additional email address, irrespective of the data subject option to also use non-electronic postal mail or customer service. These developments, and more, covered below. Standard Contractual Clauses).

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Predictions for legal ops in 2023 with LaTrece Johnson of Palo Alto Networks

Simple Legal

Last year, Gartner reported that in 2022 “58% of all legal departments have a legal operations manager, which is a 75% increase from 2018.” Last year, Gartner reported that in 2022 “58% of all legal departments have a legal operations manager, which is a 75% increase from 2018.” What do you see legal ops focusing on in 2023?

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How Can AI Models Legally Obtain Training Data?–Doe 1 v. GitHub (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

GitHub, Inc. is one of the first major class-action lawsuits to dive into questions of online collection of “public data” and generative AI training data sets. On May 11th, the court ruled on the Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss , granting in part and denying in part. The court also held that plaintiffs were permitted to proceed pseudonymously.

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