Juan Carlos Perez reports: Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers have been given one more month to rework their agreement to settle copyright infringement lawsuits that the author and publisher groups filed against the search company. At a status hearing today, Judge Denny Chin told the parties they have until Nov….
Category: Business
Privacy groups: Add privacy into Google Book Search
Cindy Cohn of EFF writes: Today EFF along with the ACLU and the privacy authors and publishers they represent, the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries and the Association of College and Research Libraries, CDT, EPIC, SFLC, Professor James Grimmelman sent a joint letter to Google urging it to include privacy protections along…
FTC settles with six companies claiming to comply with Safe Harbor program
Six U.S. businesses have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they deceived consumers by falsely claiming they were abiding by an international privacy framework that provides a means for U.S. companies to transfer data from the European Union to the United States in keeping with EU and U.S. law. According to six separate…
FTC final guides on endorsements affect bloggers, celebrities
The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it has approved final revisions to the guidance it gives to advertisers on how to keep their endorsement and testimonial ads in line with the FTC Act. The notice incorporates several changes to the FTC’s Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, which address endorsements…