The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Negative Option Rule (the “Click-to-Cancel”), which was designed to significantly impact businesses using online subscriptions, was vacated by the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, just a week before it was due to take effect.
The rule targeted negative option programs where a seller can interpret a consumer’s silence or failure to act ...
The Supreme Court of the United States addressed the constitutionality of Texas House Bill 1181 (H.B. 1181), a law requiring certain commercial websites publishing sexually explicit content obscene to minors to verify visitors are eighteen or older. Petitioners, representing the pornography industry, argued the law was unconstitutional under the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clause, claiming it impermissibly hinders adults’ access ...
On July 14, 2025, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is expected to begin the enforcement of the Click-to-Cancel Rule, which the FTC amended in 2024. The Rule’s primary purpose is to establish requirements for and prevent unfair or deceptive acts and practices in connection with a consumer’s silence or failure to act being considered as acceptance or continued acceptance of ...
The European Data Protection Board issued the final version of its guidelines that clarify the framework in Article 48 of the GDPR for controllers and processors in the EU when they receive requests from authorities in non-EU member states (“third countries”) to transfer or disclose personal data.
The core objective of Article 48 of the GDPR is to assert EU ...
Two recent decisions from the U.S. Federal District Court for the Northern District of California analyzed the complex issue of whether using copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence (AI) models constitutes fair use under copyright law.
In Bartz v. Anthropic PBC, Judge Alsup ruled on Anthropic’s use of millions of copyrighted books to train its Claude Large Language Model (LLM). ...
Legislatures around the world have enacted a number of laws relating to Artificial Intelligence.
A new Arkansas Act directly addresses the ownership of content and model training generated by generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. It stipulates that the person providing input or directives owns the generated content, provided it does not infringe on existing copyrights or intellectual property (IP) rights. ...
The UK Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (“DUAA” or “the Act”) received Royal Assent on June 19, 2025. This wide-ranging Act introduces significant changes to the UK’s existing data protection and privacy legislation. While it will not replace the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the Data Protection Act 2018, or the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) ...
בית המשפט העליון של ברזיל קבע כי רשתות חברתיות יישאו באחריות משפטית להסרת תכנים בלתי חוקיים שמתפרסמים על ידי המשתמשים. לטענת בית המשפט, החקיקה הקיימת אינה מספקת מענה הולם להתמודדות עם הנזק הנגרם כאשר התכנים נותרים ברחבי האינטרנט. על כן, יש לדרוש מהרשתות החברתיות לפעול באופן יזום להסרתם טרם התרחשות הנזק בפועל.
עד כה, החקיקה הקיימת בברזיל התירה הטלת אחריות על הרשתות ...
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