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May a lawyer ethically instruct a client to delete potentially damaging information from a client’s Facebook page?

A Hong Kong court has found that Google may be liable for defamation based on the words that it used to "auto-complete" a person’s name in a search.

Filling a gap. Gap Inc., the clothing retailer, is using social media to establish a web presence focused on feminism, equal pay for equal work, and progressive values.

These days, Facebook videos, taken as a whole, are receiving a total of one billion views a day, and at least 65% of those views are occurring on mobile devices.

Facebook’s Open Compute concept, unveiled in 2011, already permits it to share the designs for more efficient products such as servers and network switches.

Pin Money. Brands of all sizes have long used the virtual pin board/social media site Pinterest to promote their wares and drive traffic to their web sites.

Lawsuit panned by Court. The popular ratings app Yelp has been cleared by a federal appeals court of allegations in a class action lawsuit.

Disappearing ink. Facebook is testing, for a small group of users, a feature that will permit a user to schedule a post for automatic deletion after a specified period of time.

The media recently reported that app-based ride sharing service Uber misused the company’s real-time location feature to track customers without their consent.

The first in a two-part series, this publication is excerpted from a March 13, 2014, presentation made by noted privacy attorney Scott L. Vernick at the Business Insurance Risk Summit in New York City. - See more at: http://www.foxrothschild.com/newspubs/newspubsArticle.aspx?id=15032393443#sthash.J8qlldhV.dpuf

California AG Rob Bonta sponsored legislation to require social media companies to disclose certain risks associated with youth social media use.

Joe Rosenbaum recently authored an article that has been published in the Small Business Journal highlighting some of the key issues that have arisen for small to medium-size businesses as a result of the emergence and convergence of these rapidly evolving technological platforms.

This month, the Consumer Product Safety Commission is introducing a new template for companies reporting the monthly progress of recalls.

Disinformation and "deepfakes" pose growing threats to the private sector.

The recent press surrounding a gaffe by a Twitter executive who tweeted a private message about acquiring a company underscores the need for companies to put strict controls on their employees’ use of social media accounts for work-related business.

Howard Wexler and Minal Haymond authored a March 6 article in TLNT, "Snap and It's Gone: What to Do About Disappearing Evidence."

California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a new law protecting employee use of social media.