Corey Varma is an attorney in Chicago, Illinois with a focus in Information Technology and Privacy law, Cyberspace law, Social Media law, and Intellectual Property law.
January 1, 2020 brings important new privacy rights for California residents as the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) goes into effect. Following in the footsteps of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the Califor...
In April 2016, the European Union (“EU”) passed a sweeping new regulation, the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), which becomes effective today, May 25, 2018. Because the GDPR is a regulation, as opposed to a directive (such as the 1998 EU ...
Snapchat faces a class action lawsuit accusing it of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”). The suit centers around the Snapchat app’s “lenses” feature, which allows the app to draw animated additions to a person’s face. T...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a last minute Motion to Vacate today’s hearing regarding the San Bernardino terrorist’s encrypted iPhone. The DOJ previously sought Apple’s assistance to modify the iPhone’s software, weakening the mobile phone’s...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently issued guidelines regarding native advertising in a recent enforcement policy statement. These guidelines, more a reaffirmation of previous FTC enforcement actions, are aimed at regulating “promotional mess...
The Fifth Amendment protects individuals from being compelled by the government to criminally incriminate themselves, stating in no uncertain terms: “No person . . . shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.” As discu...
The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution states: “No person . . . shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.” U.S. Const. amend. V. Known as the prohibition against self-incrimination, this clause of the F...
A complaint has been filed against Lenovo in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California for Lenovo’s admitted (pdf) preloading of Superfish adware on their customers’ computers. Superfish injects product recommendations into sear...
On March 25, 2009, The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), filed suit against Dish Network in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois for telemarketing violations. In its suit, the D...
