New Cal Law Protects Fan From Abusive Resellers A bill designed to protect consumer rights by outlawing robotic ticket-buying software programs used by ticket resellers that jump to the front of a ticket buying line and create instant sellouts of entertainment events before the average consumer has a chance is now law in California. eBay, Inc. and StubHub supported the…
Concurrent with the Obama administration’s press conference in which he discussed reforming current procedures under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the administration released its legal basis for its collection of “telephony metadata in bulk.” The legal white paper has not exactly wowed Obama’s supporters or critics in Washington. Many commentators have objected to seemingly circular…
WashPost Columnist’s Myopic Call to Repeal the Internet In case you missed it, in his most controversial column since calling for the return of the Pony Express, Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson declared earlier this week that if he could he would repeal the Internet. That is right — repeal the entire World Wide Web…
ROBERT ELLIS SMITH RETURNS TO CLBR TO DISCUSS PRIVACY AND MOBILE APPS With California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ enforcement action filed against Delta for its lack of privacy policy for its mobile app and the FTC indicating that it is investigating mobile compliance with children’s privacy protections, mobile privacy has become the hot domestic internet…
DAN TYNAN RETURNS TO CLBR For a Free Wheeling Discussion on Facebook Likes, Broken Internets, Banana Endorsements and a Surprise Dan Ackroyd Appearance (Kind of) Background More Privacy Perils: Facebook Data Is Greater Than The Sum Of Your Likes (Forbes) The Internet: You broke it, you own it. Now fix it. Would you trust a LinkedIn…
FTC Cracks Down on Senders of Spam Text Messages Promoting “Free” Gift Cards Defendants Were Responsible for More than 180 Million Spam Text Messages The Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on affiliate marketers that allegedly bombarded consumers with hundreds of millions of unwanted spam text messages in an effort to steer them towards deceptive…
CYBER ATTACKS FROM IRAN, CHINA & RUSSIA – OH MY! CLBR Veteran Stan Stahl Updates Us on Cyber Security The past few weeks have seen headline after headline and report after report about major Cyber Attacks against the U.S. and U.S. businesses from Iran and China and of an emerging marketplace for Cyber…
Global E-Commerce Sales Surpasses $1 Trillion A report by eMarketer states that global e-commerce sales have surpassed $1 trillion for the first time in 2012. Total sales will reach $1.3 trillion in 2013 led by the big four – United States ($385B); China ($181B); United Kingdom ($142B) and Japan ($140B). China’s market has tripled…
Maryland Attorney General and President of the National Association of Attorneys General Doug Gansler has followed California’s lead and launched a privacy enforcement unit. We spoke with Attorney General Gansler in November on Cyber Law & Business Report and prepared a profile of him in connection with the show.
June 23, 2012 – ICANN Reveal Day Announced That 1,930 GTLD Applications Had Been Filed Early Warning Conplaints 242 Complaints Issued December 20, 2012 – Lottery for Priority Considerations Drawing for priority consideration. No english language gTLD in top 100. Ironically, the same month that the Pope joined the Twitterverse, the Catholic church’s application for…
IC3 – File Your Cyber Complaint Online The IC3 was established as a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) to serve as a means to receive Internet related criminal complaints and to further research, develop, and refer the criminal complaints to federal, state, local, or international law enforcement and/or regulatory agencies…
FTC Strengthens Kids’ Privacy, Gives Parents Greater Control Over Their Information By Amending Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule Rule Being Modified to Keep Up with Changing Technology The Federal Trade Commission adopted final amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule that strengthen kids’ privacy protections and give parents greater control over the personal information…
CLBR YEAR END SHOW NAMES CYBER HEROES AND ZEROES In the final CLBR edition for 2012, a panel of Dan Tynan and Brenda Christensen joined host Bennet Kelley in naming the Cyber Heroes and Zeroes for 2012. 2012 HEROES Big Data Doug Gansler, Maryland Attorney General Kamala Harris, California Attorney General Jayne Hitchcock, Working to Halt…
In March Facebook was hit with an antitrust lawsuit by PageRage which helps users customize their Facebook page. PageRage claims that Facebook not only demanded that users remove PageRage skins from their profile pages but also organized an advertiser boycott. On November 29th, the complaint was dismissed with the judge stressing: There is no fundamental right…
Cyber Report 