The Privacy Squad: Privacy Enforcement is Here Last week, Google agreed to pay $22.5 million to settle claims it violated its FTC Consent Decree in circumventing the privacy settings of Apple’s Safari users – the largest such settlement ever. Commissioner Leibowitz explained that the record setting penalty in this matter sends a clear message to…
ICANN’S REVEAL DAY What Are the New gTLDs and What Does it All Mean Wednesday is what ICANN labeled as “Reveal Day,” for the moment when it announced the applicants who paid the $185,000 application fee for 1,409 new generic top level domains (gTLDs) in what some where calling the “greatest internet landgrab in history.” One…
SPRING FEVER BRINGS RUSH OF ACTIVITY ON INTERNET ISSUES While opening day for Major League Baseball is not until tomorrow, the titans of the Internet have already taken the field. Pitching is President Obama with his announcement of the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, while the rest of the lineup consists of 3B: Senator Blumenthal (D-CT)…
STATE OF LIMBO Amazon Near Deal on California Sales Tax Amazon has countered California’s passage of the so-called Amazon tax by terminating its in-state affiliates and doing an end-run around Sacramento by seeking to qualify a proposition to repeal the new law for the November ballot. Sacramento responded by seeking to repeal and reenact the…
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McAfee Study: Revealed: Operation Shady RAT By Dmitri Alperovitch, Vice President, Threat Research, McAfee The Next Digital Decade: Essays On the Future of the Internet by Berin Szoka (ed.) and Adam Marcus (ed.) · LINK LINK
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Amazon Tax 101 WHAT IS THE AMAZON TAX? The Supreme Court has adopted a bright-line rule for determining the extent to which a state may tax out of state businesses based on the Due Process and Commerce Clause of the Constitution — which put simply is if you have a physical presence in a state…
CYBER WIN! CYBER REPORT WINS FIRST PLACE AT LA PRESS CLUB’S SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA JOURNALISM AWARDS Judges comments: Lots of news and info on an emerging field of law (and business), presented simply with lots of links for even more information.
PEAK AMAZON SEASON 5 New State Laws and Cal Bill Sent to Governor On Thursday the California legislature responded to Governor Jerry Brown’s budget veto by passing a new budget that included Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner’s Amazon Tax bill (AB 153)once again (and two companion measures having the same result through expanding sales tax to anyone…
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