Net Neutrality
Net Neutrality in the United States The First Net Neutrality Decision In January 14, 2014, in the case “Verizon v. … Read more
Internet
Internet activity is now engaged in by hundreds of millions of individuals and businesses of all sizes, requiring 21st century lawyers to have an understanding of the legal issues in the cyber domain. Internet Law entries explore a range of legal issues in cyber domain, including cyber security, privacy, network ownership and access, private versus public regulation of cyberspace, speech in cyberspace, content as property and intellectual property in cyberspace, jurisdiction over cyberspace activities, liability of intermediaries, state and local regulation of cyberspace, and the interrelationship between technology and law as mechanisms of regulation.
Internet
Internet in the United States Internet privacy issues The regulatory framework for privacy issues worldwide is currently in flux and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. Practices regarding the collection, use, storage, display, processing, transmission and security of […]
Cybersquatting
Cybersquatting in the United States Cybersquatters by Emmett Berg Cybersquatters turn IP attorneys into URL police. In response to cybersquatters who hijack the online presence of popular brands, intellectual property lawyering on the wild, wild Web has taken a strategic turn. Early on, […]
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence in the United States Benefits and risks of Artificial Intelligence After years of steady but slow progress on making computers “smarter” at everyday tasks, a series of breakthroughs in the research community and industry have recently spurred momentum and investment […]
Computers
Computers in the United States Introduction According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, the "rapid advance of computer technology has drastically expanded our ability to store, analyze, and disseminate information. This development has implications for three areas of […]
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in the United States The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a group of people (lawyers, technologists, volunteers, and visionaries) who share a passionate commitment to defending digital information, innovation, and technology from attempts by […]
Twitter Violent Extremism
Violent Extremism using Twitter in the United States How Extremists Use Twitter Although individuals and organizations worldwide use Twitter for a variety of legitimate reasons, violent extremists, gangs, and terrorist groups use it to connect with their supports. (1) The following […]
Online Radicalization
Online Radicalization in the United States Online Radicalization to Violent Extremism This entry focuses on how domestic and international extremists of all persuasions are using social media to promote their ideologies and what community policing strategies law enforcement can use to […]
Cyber-Insurance
Cyber-Insurance in the United States Cyber-insurance is an insurance product used to protect businesses from Internet-based risks, and more generally from risks relating to information technology infrastructure and activities. Risks of this nature are typically excluded from traditional […]
Internet of Things
Internet of Things in the United States The Internet of Things and Privacy John Beardwood, John ana Mark Bowman, in an article to Computer Law Review International, titled The Internet of Things and Privacy: An Analytic Framework (pages 140-150), wrote that one of the latest emerging […]
Online Services
Online Services in the United States The Internet has been embraced worldwide because of its widespread availability and cost-effectiveness. As access to the Internet continues to spread and the use of social media proliferates, people are spending more time online, connecting with one […]
Electronic Surveillance
Electronic Surveillance in the United States History of the Electronic Surveillance The history of relevant warrantless electronic surveillance is short. Electronic surveillance, without regard to its purpose, was not held to violate the Fourth Amendment until [a]fter the Supreme […]
Cyber Incident
Cyber Incident in the United States Presidential Memoranda Presidential Memoranda relating to the Federal Government Coordination Architecture for Significant Cyber Incidents (July 26, 2016): I. Scope This annex to PPD-41, United States Cyber Incident Coordination Policy, provides […]
Browsewrap Licenses
Browsewrap Licenses in the United States The latest development in mass-market end user license agreements (EULAs) is the socalled browsewrap agreement. It typically states that Internet users may not use a website unless they agree to the site’s terms of service. Mann and Siebeneicher […]
Clickwrap Agreements
Clickwrap Agreements in the United States The clickwrap license displays terms electronically, and the user manifests assent by clicking the acceptance button. (iLan Sys., Inc. v. Netscout Serv. Level Corp., 183 F. Supp. 2d 328, 329, 334 (D. Mass. 2002), describing the ubiquity of user […]
Shrinkwrap Licenses
Shrinkwrap Licenses in the United States Shrinkwrap Licenses to Protect Copyrighted Software by MICHAEL L. RUSTAD and DIANE D’ANGELO The greatest story never told about Internet-related copyright developments is how information age companies use license agreements to protect intangible […]
Company Information
Company Information in the United States Legal Materials: Some Basics When someone asks for information about a company, a complete answer will include: company profiles, financial data, news articles and any other information particularly relevant to that company. Some […]
HeinOnline
About HeinOnline in the United States HeinOnline is an international database that provides searchable full text access to numerous legal sources. The database contains full text e-books, US and core international journals, treaties, statutes and cases all in PDF format, which is useful for […]
Internet Law
Internet Law in the United States PATRICIA L. BELLIA ET. AL. in CYBERLAW: PROBLEMS OF POLICY AND JURISPRUDENCE IN THE INFORMATION AGE (3d ed. 2007), notes that the Internet transforms basic assumptions about the nature of communication, knowledge, invention, information, sovereignty, […]
Domain Name
Domain Name in United States Domain Name Definition in Plain-English Law The Domain Name, as defined by Nolo’s Encyclopedia of Everyday Law (p. 437-455), are a combination of letters and numbers that identifies a specific website on the Internet, followed by an identifier such as .com or […]
Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying in the United States Cyberbullying Laws By Barbara Kate Repa. She is a lawyer, writer, and editor in San Francisco. In today’s world of instant communication, bullying has gone beyond the schoolyard: Students have virtually unlimited ways to be mean. New Sate laws attempt to […]
Social Media
Social Media in the United States Social Media in Discovery By Scott E. Atkinson, an associate at Carr McClellan Ingersoll Thompson & Horn in Burlingame. He focuses on business litigation in the technology sector. In discovery, social media sites have the same status as more […]
Safe Harbor
Safe Harbor in the United States In the ordinary course of business, American companies operating abroad collect, store, use and transmit certain types of information that are subject to different laws and regulations. In particular, data security and data protection laws and regulations that […]
CAN-SPAM Act
CAN-SPAM Act in the United States The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, and gives recipients the right to have you stop emailing them, and spells out tough penalties for violations. Despite its name, the […]
Protect IP Act
Protect IP Act in the United States In an effort to protest and raise awareness of two bills introduced by United States government representatives, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), popular websites like Wikipedia and approximately 7,000 other sites in January […]
Law Dictionaries
Law Dictionaries in the United States A Dictionary of Law Enforcement Oxford Dictionary of Law Hein Online, Dictionary of Jurisprudence Legal Latin Australian Law Dictionary (Oxford Reference Online) LexisNexis AU •Australian Legal Words and Phrases •Butterworths Encyclopaedic […]
Electronic Communications in International Contracts
Electronic Communications in International Contracts in the United States Unitad Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts Presidential Memoranda Presidential Memoranda regarding the Unitad Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic […]
Botnet
Botnet in the United States Outline of the Problem Botnets will continue to be an issue: Any vulnerable host can become a bot; and there will always be vulnerable hosts The source of a Botnet will be difficult to determine Without accountability it is impossible to identify the […]
Electronic Transactions
Electronic Transactions in the United States Introduction to Electronic Transactions (State statute topic) The purpose of Electronic Transactions is to provide a broad appreciation of the Electronic Transactions legal topic. Select from the list of U.S. legal topics for information (other than […]
List of Top Popular Reference Sites
List of Top Popular Reference Sites in the United States List of Most Visited Encyclopedia and Dictionary Sites in the United States This list of Most Visited Encyclopedia and Dictionary Sites un the United States was made using Similar Sites, in the end of 2015: Wikipedia.org […]
Copyright Internet Laws
Copyright Internet Laws in the United States Motion Picture Association of America Rather than pursue legislation, in recent years the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has pursued agreements with ad agencies and payment processors, while a “copyright alert” system has been in […]
Online Defamation Law
Online Defamation Law in the United States Defamatory Content Liability: Risks Associated With Online Publication and Posting By Chris Ridder. A partner at Ridder, Costa & Johnstone in San Francisco, he represents clients on transactional and litigation matters related to intellectual […]
Website Terms Of Use
Website Terms Of Use in the United States Website operators can reduce risk by carefully implementing terms of service. Terms and Conditions By Aaron Rubin. He is a Morrison & Foerster partner, based in San Francisco. He co-edits the firm’s Socially Aware blog and newsletter, to which San […]
Intelligence Components Activities
Intelligence Components Activities in the United States See more about Intelligence Components here. Excerpted from: Department of Defense, DoD 5240.1-R, Procedures Governing the Activities of DoD Intelligence Components that Affect United States Persons, December 1982: D. ELECTRONIC […]
FISA Amendments Act
FISA Amendments Act in the United States The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008 (FISA Amendments Act), which was signed by the President on July 10,2008. Like the Protect America Act, pursuant to which the Government issued the directives at issue in this […]
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review in the United States The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review was created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to review applications that were denied by the FIS Court. The Court of Review is comprised of […]
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in the United States The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was created by section 103(a) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1803(a)). It was originally comprised of seven district judges from seven circuits named by […]
Online Harassment
Online Harassment in the United States Cyberbullying and Harassment Cyberbullying and Harassment include online threats, harassment, and negative comments, and also stalking through emails, websites, social networks and text messages. Bullying and Harassment It can involve verbal abuse […]
Electronic Commerce Law
Electronic Commerce Law in the United States Scope Electronic commercial law is a permanent and an inherent feature of all commerce. It is not a separate or distinct field that only a few lawyers or companies need pay attention to in their daily affairs. It is commerce and commercial law. […]
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity in the United States Every year a host of cybersecurity bills are introduced in Congress. In 2014, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) was introduced. As part of its focus on cybersecurity, the U.S. Congress passed cyber-threat sharing legislation in […]
Anonymous Internet Defamation
Anonymous Online Defamation in the United States Combating Online defamation: a warning to anonymous posters By Lee S. Brenner and Audrey Jing Faber. They are intellectual property, business, and entertainment litigators in the Los Angeles office of Kelley Drye & Warren. Online posts […]
Google in the United States The Google Gmail Case A class action in San Jose challenges Google’s scanning of email content to gather personally identifiable information. Google says its policies are clear, and users should just get over it. Not only does the case (see below) have profound […]
NSF Security Program
NSF’s Security Program in the United States Introduction The United States faces serious cyber threats upon the U.S. national infrastructures: A massive cyber attack upon our Nation’s critical infrastructures which is credible and that would have staggering adverse consequences […]
Admissions Evidence
Admissions in Evidence in the United States Gathering Evidence from Social Networking Sites By Marcia Hofmann. She is a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and focuses on digital civil liberties issues (2011) The legal pitfalls of obtaining personal information […]
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act in the United States by Pamela MacLean. The federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act expands its reach. Using digital cookies, global positioning, and online behavioral advertising, companies can locate children while they use mobile […]
Internet Service Provider
Internet Service Provider in United States Internet Service Provider Definition Isp in this legal Encyclopedia Internet Service Provider definition in the Law Dictionary Regulation of the Internet Internet services including websites of broadcast stations are subject to regulation […]
Google for Legal Research
Google for Legal Research in the United States WestlawNext and Goolge From Testing the Limits of WestlawNext (by LEE F. PEOPLES), pag. 139, Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 31:125–149, 2012, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC: Google is the search engine of choice for 78 percent of law […]
In Re DoubleClick, Inc. Privacy Litigation, 154 F. Supp. 2d 497
In Re DoubleClick, Inc. Privacy Litigation, 154 F. Supp. 2d 497 (S.D.N.Y. 2001) in the United States This is a Third Party Cookie Collection case. See Cookies legal issues. Background of In Re DoubleClick, Inc. Privacy Litigation This case was a multidistrict consolidated class […]
Law global results of the 200 top searches in Google
Law global results of the 200 top searches in Google in the United States If you has ever thinking about which are the accompanying phrases of the top search in google with the word law, without the websites, here they are: “Bound by Law translates law into plain English and abstract […]
Top 75 adwords competence for attorneys, legal, lawyer and law
Top 75 adwords competence for attorneys, legal, lawyer and law keywords in the United States See: Top global google searches for attorneys, legal, lawyer and law and Top U.S. google searches for attorneys, legal, lawyer and law Top 75 adwords competence for attorneys, legal, lawyer and […]