by Kathy Ossian | Aug 1, 2016 | IT Law Alerts, Link
Bring Your Own Device, or “BYOD”, continues to grow in popularity. As an example, over the past 18 months, the State of Michigan has quadrupled the number of employees using their own devices on the job. Michigan’s goal is to have 90% of employees on the program by...
by Kathy Ossian | Jul 19, 2016 | IT Law Alerts, Link
On July 6, 2016, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that Peter Deacon, a user of Pandora’s free streaming music service, is not a “customer” under Michigan’s Video Rental Privacy Protection Act. Deacon is alleging that Pandora violated the act by sharing his name and...
by Kathy Ossian | Jul 5, 2016 | IT Law Alerts, Link, Quote
On June 14th, the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) issued its 2016 Online Trust Audit & Honor Roll. A self-described “benchmark analysis of businesses’ commitment to security, privacy and consumer protection”, the audit was the eighth consecutive effort by the OTA....
by Kathy Ossian | Jun 20, 2016 | IT Law Alerts, Link
How long should a social media platform allow illegal hate speech to remain on its site before removing it? Unfortunately, social media has become a tool for terrorist groups and others to spread “the public incitement to violence or hatred directed against a group of...
by Kathy Ossian | Jun 6, 2016 | IT Law Alerts, Link
Almost every website has terms that govern a user’s experience and the site owner’s responsibility for the operations and activities of the site. The enforceability of such terms and the limitations of a user “clicking through” was recently addressed by the U.S....
by Kathy Ossian | May 17, 2016 | IT Law Alerts, Link
Automakers Ford and Volvo, ride-sharing leaders Uber and Lyft (in which General Motors is a major investor), together with tech giant Google have formed a lobby called the Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets. The coalition is lead by former National Highway...
