by thefriedfirm | Dec 5, 2018 | Blog
Hashtags have been an easy punchline for about as long as they have been popular on social media engines such as Instagram and Twitter, and this is somewhat propelled by the fact that a good-sized chunk of them serve the one and only purpose of being punchlines to...
by thefriedfirm | Aug 23, 2018 | Blog
In our two previous posts, we talked about what businesses the new European Union privacy laws apply to as well as the basic prohibitions and requirements that apply to those businesses. In this final post of our series on the General Data Protection Regulation...
by thefriedfirm | Aug 3, 2018 | Blog
In the first post of our European Union (EU) privacy law series, we talked about who the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) rules apply to. To put it briefly, the new rules apply to any business in the world (including the U.S.) that stores or...
by thefriedfirm | Jul 18, 2018 | Blog
Public concern over online privacy, data breaches and unauthorized data usage is nothing new. For years we have been hearing about large-scale data breaches at retailers like Target and Home Depot, and the past year alone brought alarming news about the colossal...
by thefriedfirm | Oct 28, 2015 | Blog
Google scored a major victory earlier this month when the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled that the company’s massive undertaking in creating a digital library doesn’t infringe on the rights of authors because it’s fair use. This comes after a...