E-Commerce Law

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of June 9, 2008

• Finally, three of country's largest Internet service providers have agreed to block access to child pornography sites.  The move was part of an agreement reached with the New York Attorney General.

• Google and Yahoo have reached an agreement by which Google would deliver ads next to some of Yahoo's search results and some of its websites in the United States and Canada.

E-Commerce Law Briefs is a weekly feature appearing each Friday afternoon on E-Commerce Law. Each week, E-Commerce Law Briefs will provide a brief summary and commentary on recent legal news affecting e-commerce businesses.

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of June 2, 2008

• Privacy groups complain that Google's privacy policy is not posted "conspicuously" enough to comply with California law.  "The California law in question requires commercial Web sites that collect personal information about their users to conspicuously post its privacy policy on its Web site.' It defines the action conspicuously post' as, among other things, placing a text link to the privacy policy either 'on the home page or first significant page after entering the Web site.' The link itself is supposed to include the word 'privacy' or appear in a larger font than the rest of the page's text. . . . At the moment, getting to Google's privacy policy requires clicking on 'About Google' on its home page, which brings up a page that includes a link to its privacy policy at the bottom.'

• Jeremy Jaynes has appealed his spam conviction to the Virginia Supreme Court.  His conviction was affirmed by the Virginia Court of Appeals.

• 11.7 percent of .info domains are "dangerous," accordingly to McAfee.

Defending a Criminal Case in a Cyber World

Last night, I had the pleasure of speaking at a dinner meeting of the Maryland Criminal Defense Attorneys Association (MCDAA).  The topic was "Defending a Criminal Case in a Cyber World" and I promised the group I would post the outline of my presentation here today. 

If you attended the meeting, feel free to post a comment letting me know your thoughts or asking any questions that I wasn't able to fully answer last night.  If you weren't at the meeting, the outline may still provide some useful information, particularly as to the admissibility of certain information taken from Internet sources.  You can view or print the outline (in PDF format), by clicking here.  (To save the outline to your hard drive, right click the link and select "Save Target As . . .")