Exam 9: Internet Law Social Media and Privacy

An online retailer can track a user's web activities with cookies without violating the person's right to privacy.

State law may protect individuals from having to disclose their social media passwords to potential employers.

Web Invest Inc. buys and sells domain names with the click of a mouse. A domain name can be bought and sold many times. Each change of owner is registered automatically as part of a mass registration. In this environment

In posting statements or photos to a social media site, a person clearly has a reasonable expectation of privacy.

The Federal Trade Commission can effectively force a private company to consent to the agency's review of the company's privacy and data practices.

Grain Mill Company brings a suit against Milled Grain Company under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, alleging that Milled Grain is profiting from a domain name that is confusingly similar to Grain Mill's trademark. If Grain Mill is successful, recovery may include

Online conduct gives rise to only a narrow variety of legal actions.

Anyone can circumvent encryption software or other technological antipiracy protection without penalty.

Skye posts excerpts from comics and graphic novels on social networking sites without the permission of the owners of the copyrights to the illustrations and stories. This is

Cybersquatting occurs when the owner of a trademark registers the mark as a domain name but does not use it for that purpose.

Prodigious Profit, LLC, and other companies operate social media Web sites, issue apps for mobile devices, obtain ad revenue from search engines, and sell directly to consumers from other sites. The privacy rights of the users of these products are frequently defined, not by the courts or legislatures, but by

Under the First Amendment, every U.S. citizen has a right to be forgotten with respect to outdated personal information otherwise searchable online.