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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 23, 2024

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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Snap’s TOS Withstands an Unconscionability Challenge–Howard v. Snap

Eric Goldman

A Snap user connected with another Snap user, bought drugs offline from the other Snap user, and overdosed. Her estate sued Snap in Nevada for its alleged complicity in the death. Snap successfully invoked its TOS venue selection clause, sending the case from Nevada to California. With respect to the plaintiff’s unconscionability challenge, the court says Snap’s TOS formaton process is fine: Snap’s Terms of Service are hyperlinked in blue surrounded by a gray font, the link is

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