Blog Posts: Internet

In an amendment to the Safeguards Rule of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), which was officially announced on October 27, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will mandate that a wide array of nonbank financial institutions report instances of unauthorized acquisition of unencrypted, personally identifiable, nonpublic financial information pertaining to more t...

On October 19, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) unveiled a proposed rule to implement Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act. This section mandates that entities subject to it should provide consumers access to information about financial products or services they have acquired from these entities, in accordance with rules set by the bureau. The p...

In 2012, most employers are engaging the public with social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. These social media sites can be cost effective ways to generate new business in a world where people spend more time on social media sites than ever. Indeed, social media is no longer an option, it is a necessity. Although social media is great for develo...

Video Transcript: There’s two ways that you can find out the identity of an anonymous author online. First, is you can just ask. You can email the website, email the ISP and say “Hey, this person said mean things about me” or inform them of the reason you want to know and just ask. Most of the times, the website won’t actually give you that...

We are all used to clicking the "I agree" button and frequently we click without reading the lengthy terms and conditions.  While many are long, these virtual agreements bring with them rights, responsibilities and restrictions.  By clicking "I Agree", you have created a contract.   In the on-line order process, frequently you will click on an agreement button, ...

There is nothing more frustrating than learning that the technical or product information that you wrote, or the photographs that you took for your website have been stolen and used on someone else's website.  Sometimes the copying is so blatant that the other website looks just like yours! If a competitor steals your website content, it can do real damage to ...

Let's face it, some marketing ploys are pretty clever and some spam is brilliantly disguised as valid e-mail. There are many great reasons to register your trademark with the United States Patent & Trademark Office, including: Constructive notice nationwide of the trademark owner's trademark rights Preventing others from registering and limiting your geograp...

If you used to think that SOPA was a misspelling of soap, after January 18th, 2012 you know better. What is now being called, National SOPA Blackout Day, the internet was flooded with thousands of articles, hundreds of petitions and most chilling to many users - blocked websites. Wikipedia shut down its services for the day and Google's home screen icon contained ...

Whether your business has always been internet based or your traditional brick and mortar business has evolved to a click and mortar business, you have a website. It's likely that you know that you need the fine print - "terms of use" and a "privacy policy."   While you have many options when creating these policies, these are the most common approaches: Let...

This is not only a common legal question but also a great question as the answer is - it depends!  A domain name simply is an address on the Internet.  Computers find web addresses by a series of numbers known as an IP address.  To make the process more user friendly, the numbers are matched to words that, hopefully, can be easily remembered.  ...