Operator of the Path social networking application agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived users by collecting personal information from their mobile device address books without their knowledge and consent. Path agreed to establish a comprehensive privacy program to obtain an independent privacy assessment every other year for the next 20 years […]
Even if website owners don’t think they need to be concerned about the amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”), the new regulations may prove otherwise. As indicated by the FTC, the final amendments are as follows: • modify the list of “personal information” that cannot be collected without parental notice and consent, […]
Prioritization Draw Because of the huge number of applications submitted for the first round of new gTLDs and internationalized domain names (“IDNs”), the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) held a “Prioritization Draw” on December 17 to randomly choose the order for the release of initial evaluation results of new applications. IDN applications […]
The world is going to get more complicated. Instead of the Internet-universe mainly being defined by .com, net, and .org, potentially thousands of new top-level domains, known as TLDs, are going to be added. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) has posted information about applications to establish new TLDs. The $185,000 price […]
When faced with an uncooperative cybersquatter, trademark owners have several choices, among which are filing a lawsuit or a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) complaint.[1] One of the advantages of a UDRP procedure is that it is quicker and much less expensive than a lawsuit. But that does not mean it should be […]