Sm@rtEdgeLaw Group™ will be discussing “Privacy and Social Media” in an upcoming American Bar Association webinar May 7th with colleagues at other firms and organizations. Social media is everywhere. Join this webinar for an update on the latest social media legal issues and challenges. Attorney CLE credit available. Register at http://apps.americanbar.org/cle/program//t14pvm1.html?sc_cid=CET4PVM-A Program Description: Program Description: Social media […]
Category: Social Media
Between a Rock and Google Plus
An interesting question has come in from several clients, large and small, lately as to remedies and options they have for recovering a social media account. While the latest inquiries seem, for whatever reason, to be focused on Google+ the same scenarios apply to other social media outlets. Typically two scenarios are common. The first […]
Upcoming Webinar on FFIEC Social Media Compliance
Richard Santalesa, will be conducting an upcoming webinar in connection with MetricStream, discussing the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s (“FFIEC”) proposed recent social media guidance (see FFIEC Social Media Guidance Public Comment Revelations). Date to be announced in the near future.
FFIEC Social Media Guidance Public Comment Revelations
Earlier this year on January 22, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (“FFIEC”), released for public comment proposed social media-related recommendations for financial institutions entitled, Social Media: Consumer Compliance Risk Management Guidance (the “Guidance”) which, according to the FFIEC, was designed to set the foundation for, in final form, “supervisory guidance” to the institutions the […]
FTC Releases Recommendations for Mobile Privacy Disclosures
This weekend’s excellent Superbowl game, which was delayed by a power outage that prompted several announcers in passing to mention the “extra power” used by tablets and smartphones, highlighted that the mobile arena continues to take center stage everywhere. We’ve covered the growing attention on mobile privacy policies and data gathering in recent posts (see, […]
Federal CIO Council Releases BYOD Toolkit
Bring Your Own Device (“BYOD”) is the latest overnight IT sensation. But like most “overnight sensations” the foundational work took years before now familiar names “suddenly” hit the bright lights. In broader response to the ongoing Consumerization of Information Technology trend (“COIT”), no less than the Federal government has jumped on the BYOD bandwagon. Last week […]
ACE USA Social Media Risk Podcast
Richard Santalesa recently joined other attorneys and risk management professionals from the ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group, to record a companion podcast to a joint whitepaper “Social Media: The Business Benefits May be Enormous, But Can the Risks – Reputational, Legal, Operational – be Mitigated?” The free podcast is available […]
Is Social Networking Disclosing Your Trade Secret Customer Lists?
It was inevitable. First came social networks, then came the lawsuits: In the e-discovery context, in impeachment situations (Ledbetter v Wal-Mart Stores Inc.(06-cv-01958-WYD-MJW) (D Colo April 21, 2009); Mackelprang v. Fidelity Nat’l Title Agency of Nevada, Inc. (D. Nev. 2007); and Beye v. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield (D. N.J. 2006)), in the tort context […]
Webinar on “The Legal Issues of Social Networking”
Richard Santalesa, recently hosted an hour long live webinar on The Legal Issues of Social Networking for IT Managed Service Providers (“MSPs”), in conjunction with Zenith Infotech, Ltd. and Redmond Channel Partner MSPtv. While ostensibly targeted at the MSP community, Rich’s coverage of the general legal issues are applicable to any company that has or […]
