Helping Your Clients Navigate the Privacy Shoals on the Web 2.0 Information Sea

Program Description

Barely a day goes by without a social-networking web site running aground on a privacy issue. The charts for navigating these issues are incomplete, due to the lack of laws and precedent governing privacy on these sites. How would you advise a client setting up or running a Web 2.0 site to handle privacy issues? Who can you give private information to and when, for marketing purposes or requests from law enforcement? What are privacy implications of UGC?  What law applies or could apply? This program will focus on some of the recent hot issues and cases affecting social networking and bring practitioners “up-to-date” with the latest developments and solutions. 

Topics to be addressed include:

• Identifying the steps your clients need to take to avoid legal or reputational problems when starting or running a social network site   
• Examining current incidents (Facebook/Beacon, Sears, etc.) and measures to enhance a user’s privacy online
• What internal policies should be in place
• Privacy concerning User Generated Content (UGC)
• How to better protect the privacy of teenagers 

Join us as we explore the dangers hidden in the 2.0 Information Sea and chart solutions for your clients when addressing privacy issues concerning advertising, protection of underage users, law enforcement and other uses.    

Program Faculty

William Baker, Moderator, Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, DC

Parry Aftab, The Privacy Lawyer, Irvington-on-Hudson , NY

Stephen N. Hollman, Business & Technology Law Group, San Jose, CA

CLE Credit*

1.5 hours of CLE credit in 60-minute states/1.8 hours of CLE credit in 50-minute states have been requested in states accrediting ABA teleconferences and live audio webcasts.*

NY-licensed attorneys: This non-transitional CLE program has been approved for experienced NY-licensed attorneys in accordance with the requirements of the New York State CLE Board for 1.5 total NY CLE credits.

The following states accept ABA teleconferences for mandatory CLE credit:
AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, KY, LA, ME, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NH, NM, NV, NY, OK, OR, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY.

*States currently not accrediting ABA Teleconferences: DE, IN, PA, KS, OH