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We have a lot of opinions and ideas—and we are not shy about sharing them. Here, you will find fresh content from the Sequel team and guest bloggers about the latest legal, Internet, technology and market developments and trends. Have an idea for a future topic to be addressed and discussed in our blog? Please contact us at info@sequeltechlaw.com with your idea.

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  1. Crowdfunding: A Hot Potato on Which the SEC Must Make Decisions Soon

    At Sequel Technology IP Law, we are calling for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to

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  2. FTC Fines $800,000 for Harvesting Addresses from Customer Phones Costs

    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

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  3. The Children’s Online Protection Act Evolves

    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,

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  4. New gTLD Developments

    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

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what's bugging blakeslee?

These days, there are a lot of things that bug our founding partner, Melise Blakeslee. Odds are, you will find her insights and opinions provocative.

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  1. One State Court Finds Requiring Zip Codes to Be a Privacy Issue

    If you require your customers to supply a ZIP Code as a part of a transactions, you might want to rethink that practice.

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  2. Even If You Think European Laws Don’t Or Shouldn’t Apply To You, It Is Important That You Keep An Eye On Privacy Issues Across The Pond.

    Everyone knows that the Internet is a global medium, that it is no respecter of national boundaries,

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  3. The Claim that Cloud Computing will Solve all Your Data Security Problems

    It really bugs me that businesses are signing up for cloud computing services (“CCS”)  before considering whether the CCS’s contract and service levels actually capture what is promised in advertising claims like this: Web attacks and retribution campaigns are on the rise, and they have become more frequent, more random and more extreme. Distributed cloud

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  4. The Fly on the Wall Decision is Really Bugging Me

    Anyone who distributes news on a website should pay attention to the threat of this decision.

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