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The following excerpt, a chapter from 'Video Game Law: Everything You Need to Know about Legal and Business Issues in the Game Industry' by S. Gregory Boyd, Brian Pyne, and [...]

A three judge panel in the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals found that the arbitration clause in the Uber driver app was not enforceable. 'Because the Plaintiffs were not reasonably [...]

U.S. District Judge Joan Gottschall agreed with Microsoft that its arbitration provision was valid and overcame a class action bid. She wrote that the plaintiff had clicked through agreeing to [...]

For the second time in the US and the second time in Washington State, a court has found that an online game could constitute illegal gambling. Big Fish Casino is [...]

Chinese game company, Tencent, has a very popular title among children - Honor of Kings. With 200 million players, the game previously restricted play time by age and was proving [...]

Prior to 2009, Sears paid consumers $10 to download certain software that would track the user's browsing history. The FTC said that the tracking was much more more than was [...]

A complaint by the DOJ and FTC stated that the Kid Connect application by VTech collected children's information in violation of COPPA and failed to adequately protect it. Among other [...]

The ASA recently found that Funplus, developer of King of Avalon: Dragon Warfare should only use images from its own game in advertising. Through its agency, the developer actually promoted [...]

Advertising law practitioners may want to consider what a recent change in Apple video game developer rules means for the ever-popular 'loot boxes.' Loot boxes are in-game items that players [...]

A jury awarded the owners of Grump Cat 710K in a copyright, trademark, and breach of contract case against Grenade Beverage. Grenade exceeded the scope of its 2013 license to [...]

The Alphonso software is a collection of more than 250 games. In addition to the obvious use, the software is capable of listening to what you are watching on television. [...]

On June 1, 2017, Washington State joined Illinois and Texas as the third state to pass a biometric privacy law. The law, H.B. 1493, which goes into effect July 23, [...]

S. Gregory Boyd is a partner, Co-Chair of the Privacy & Data Security Group and co-Chair of the Interactive Entertainment Group at Frankfurt Kurnit. Mr. Boyd has extensive experience negotiating [...]

Here is some news about an important new resource for mobile app developers working in the healthcare space. To help healthcare app developers assess which laws and regulations apply to [...]

On February 2, 2016, EU and US authorities reached an agreement in principle on a new framework for transatlantic data transfers, dubbed the 'Privacy Shield.' In a nutshell, the Privacy [...]

This article originally appeared in Mashable.com The one thing we know about privacy and data security is that we have neither. Those words are more true every day and if [...]

Two app developers recently paid a total of $360,000 to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission ('FTC') that they violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ('COPPA') Rule. The [...]

A recent decision in a long-running data security case is a must-read for corporate executives charged with ensuring the security of personal information. In the Lab MD case, the court [...]

While there is no generally applicable federal law in the United States requiring all businesses to take particular steps to secure their sensitive data, the Federal Trade Commission, has investigated [...]

Starting on September 1, 2015, all companies that collect and use data across sites or apps for interest-based advertising - including carriers, apps, ad networks, brands, agencies and publishers - [...]

The Federal Trade Commission has made clear in recent months that it will scrutinize claims from advertisers about products that allegedly improve cognitive function, including video game products. See e.g. [...]

What is the Internet of Things (the 'IoT')? It's the ability of everyday objects to connect to the internet and collect and transmit data. Examples include the thermostat in your [...]

Last month, the California Attorney General's Office released guidelines for businesses (the 'Guidelines') on how to comply with recent updates to the California Online Privacy Protection Act ('CalOPPA'). We previously [...]

That's the important question currently before a federal appeals court - a question with huge implications for advertisers and other custodians of sensitive customer data. How did the question arise? [...]