Ask any 1L – personal jurisdiction has always been a tricky issue. But in the internet era, even courts have grappled with how to determine whether an online presence is sufficient to establish personal jurisdiction over a party. Recently, the Eastern District of Louisiana ruled that an internet presence consisting of a website as well as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn pages could not sufficiently demonstrate the “foreseeability or awareness” that a product would reach a forum state’s market required to establish personal jurisdiction. The decision reaffirmed that even in the age of social media, defendants must still directly target a forum to be subject to personal jurisdiction there.
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Does SB 568, California’s New ‘Eraser Button’ law, apply to you?
By Lisa B. Kim on
This post was also written by Joshua B. Marker and Paul Cho.
One of the bills we have been following since May has recently cleared the governor’s desk and been signed into law. SB 568, now popularly known as the “Eraser Button” law, adds two significant, privacy-related requirements for operators of websites, online services, and…
UK ICO to assess website privacy policies as part of a global sweep
By Cynthia O’Donoghue on
The UK’s data protection watchdog, Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), joins the global initiative for improving website privacy policies organised by the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN). Nineteen data protection authorities from around the globe will assess and report on the standards of privacy policies used by websites based in their jurisdictions.
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