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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 19, 2023

LLRX

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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Ninth Circuit Easily Dismisses Account Termination Case–King v. Facebook

Eric Goldman

This is a standard account termination case. The specific facts don’t matter to the outcome, but I enumerate a little more detail in my prior blog post. The 9th Circuit panel’s very short narrative includes: “there is no private right of action under the CDA” “The specific promise to take down explicit content at issue in Barnes does not compare to the general promise made by Facebook, and incorporated into its TOS, to use “good faith” or make an “honest” determinat

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Podcast episode 110: The Apple of Our “i” and a (Potential) Fast Pass to Space Mountain!

iPhone J.D.

If there is a theme to this week’s episode of the In the News podcast, it is the future of the streaming video industry. We dig deep into the rumors that Apple might buy Disney. Yes, it’s crazy, and we ultimately don’t think it will happen, and yet just maybe it could for lots of different reasons. We also talk about why cutting the cord is not what it used to be anymore.

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