Overstock Hit With $6.42 Million Fine From California Court Over Boosted Comparison Pricing In 2010, six Northern California County District Attorneys filed suit against Overstock for fraudulent price comparisons in Alameda County Superior Court. In one example cited in the lawsuit, Overstock advertised a patio set for sale for $449.99 and claimed that the “List…
State Attorney Generals to Push for Limitation on CDA Immunity Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act provides immunity to websites for third party content on the site. It has stymied state efforts to regulate online solicitation, which has led some state attorney generals to push for an amendmnet to the CDA to exempt state…
Governor Brown Signs Social Media Snooping Law California Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 1844 (Campos) and Senate Bill 1349 (Yee) which prohibit prohibit universities and employers from requiring that applicants give up their email or social media account passwords. “The Golden State is pioneering the social media revolution and these laws will protect all Californians from…
NEWS UPDATE & FOLLOW UP Google to Block YouTube Video in Brazil Google Brazil to Take Down Controversial Video Chief Arrested Over Video Google Brazil Chief Arrested Over YouTube Video Cal Enacts Anti-Social Media Snooping Law Praised by ACLU Prof Goldman is a critic See Backgrounder for May 16th CLBR on this topic FTC Watch…
Delaware Becomes First State to Approve Online Gambling Delaware, the state that prides itself on the being the first to ratify the Constitution, became the first state in the nation to approve online casino gambling. Casino games will be available to Delaware residents through the websites of the state’s casinos, with betting controlled and monitored…
A practice that was once employed by the Maryland Department of Corrections is now banned state-wide, as Maryland’s Governor signed legislation prohibiting employers from “request[ing] or requir[ing] that at an employee or applicant disclose [any] means for accessing a personal account or service through an electronic communications device.” California’s Assembly unanimously passed similar legislation this…
Facebook-Instagram Deal to be Delayed by FTC Antitrust Probe Reports are circulating that the $1 billion Facebook-Instagram deal could be put on hold by as much as a year while the FTC conducts an antitrust investigation into the deal. As the New York Times indicates, “[t]he government could also be interested in whether a company is killing…
PCWORLD BUSINESS CENTER Oct 5, 2011 Your Digital Rights at Work: A FAQ Guide By Dan Tynan, PCWorld ***** Even if your business is small, it’s important to have a social media policy in place that spells out what employees can and can’t do,” says Bennet Kelley, founder of the Internet Law Center and a…
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