United States: Utah’s New Internet Employment Privacy Law Continues A Growing Trend - Proskauer Rose LLP
Following a growing trend among states, on March 26, 2013, the Utah legislature passed the Internet Employment Privacy Act, which prohibits employers from requesting that job applicants or employees disclose passwords protecting their personal internet accounts.
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Best Buy slashes prices for iPad 3
Retailer Best Buy is offering a 30 percent discount on its current stock of Apple iPad 3 tablets in the United States, a spokeswoman for the world's largest consumer electronics chain said on Wednesday. Retailers typically slash prices on products in the lead-up to a major launch of a new iPad or iPhone as a way of clearing old inventory, analysts have said. "We're not discounting the price of iPa...
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Free Federal Wireless Broadband For All Americans? Fuggedaboutit!
The United States government is not going to be providing free WiFi Internet access to consumers anytime soon. That news may surprise anyone who read a startling Washington Post story on Sunday that seemed to confuse a fairly esoteric telecom policy proposal about the use of so-called “white space” wireless spectrum with some sort of free national wireless Internet access plan. The “free WiFi for all” story, which was passed around uncritically by Internet blogs and news sites, set off a furor because the notion cuts to the heart of ongoing battles over access to the Internet, the “digital divide,” and federal policy decisions that could have major implications for the telecom, cable, and technology industries. But the story was wrong, as Ars Technica pointed out. On Tuesday, outlets that repeated the bunk story began walking their reports back, in some cases apologizing for giving bad information to the public. The episode, which provoked a strong pushback from tech ...
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United States: Amazon Takes A Bite Out Of Apple:Federal Judge Dismisses False Advertising Claim Against Amazon’s "Appstore" - Venable LLP
Though the holiday gift-giving battle between Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle may have quieted recently, the ongoing legal war between the two technology giants continues.
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United States: "Fair, Adequate And Reasonable": Federal Judge Approves The FTC’s $22.5 Million Settlement With Google - Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
As previously reported in this blog , Google, Inc. agreed to pay $22.5 Million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it misrepresented its data collection practices to users of Apple, Inc.’s Safari Internet browser .
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