Lawyers got a crash course in social media data law, in...
Lawyers got a crash course in social media data law, in a Practising Law Institute webinar Monday given by Lori Lesser, an intellectual property and technology lawyer who has represented AOL, Google, Microsoft and Viacom. The FTC can investigate unfair…
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and deceptive acts, so once a company develops a privacy policy, she said, “you really have to do everything you say you're going to do.” Lesser said she’s seen companies copy and paste privacy policies from other websites in the hopes of meeting industry standards. “You want to be industry standard,” she said, “but if you say you comply with anything and you don’t,” a company could be investigated by the FTC. There are efforts to ensure “the ‘right to be forgotten,'” Lesser said, which could “be very difficult technically” if it requires erasing an online presence that has already been shared by someone else. Lesser wondered what would happen if one person shared something on their Facebook Timeline that was then shared by another user. Would Facebook be able to delete that information from the second user’s Timeline, she asked. “It’s just bizarre."