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Section 230 immunity did not protect Omegle in product liability lawsuit
July 17, 2022 - When plaintiff was 11 years old, she was connected to a man in his late thirties using Omegle (a "free online chat room that randomly . . .
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Is it unlawful to access someone else’s Google Drive content that is not password protected?
June 18, 2022 - Plaintiff set up a Google Drive so that he could collect photos and other content related to a local school board controversy. He thought it . . .
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Company president may be liable for vicarious copyright infringement
June 11, 2022 - Plaintiff sued a company and its president for copyright infringement, over some photos that the company published online. The individual defendant moved to dismiss the . . .
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Can a person be liable for retweeting a defamatory tweet?
May 12, 2022 - Under traditional principles of defamation law, one can be liable for repeating a defamatory statement to others. Does the same principle apply, however, on social . . .
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Restraining order issued against domain name seller who refused to transfer
April 25, 2022 - Defendant listed a domain name for sale using DomainAgents. After a couple rounds of negotiation, plaintiff accepted defendant's counteroffer to sell the domain name. But when the time came . . .
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Is storing protected information on an unencrypted server a disclosure of that information?
March 15, 2022 - Back in the 1990s, Congress recognized that stalkers were aided in their crimes by using victims' driver's license information, and states were selling driver's license . . .
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Can you sue a platform for not following DMCA takedown procedures?
March 10, 2022 - Plaintiff sued YouTube after the platform took down one of plaintiff's videos in response to a DMCA takedown notice. She claimed YouTube failed to follow . . .
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Biometric privacy statute does not violate First Amendment
February 15, 2022 - Plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit against a facial recognition technology company and related individual defendants, asserting violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy . . .
