Exam 8: Digital Media Law

Dee Linquint is developing quite a following on social media. She lives in Alabama but has thousands on Instagram followers around the world and her YouTube videos have been seen millions of times. It turns out, though, that 20 years ago when Dee was only 15, she was arrested for public indecency. Dee may be a celebrity but she is not an elected official. Thanks to the Right to be Forgotten, Dee can require online search services (like Google) to disable any links to the 20-year-old news story.

When an "influencer" promotes a product by posting comments online, what is required?

What is the federal court's standing on social media providers blocking users?

Under the NLRA, what posting(s) to social media would be considered legally protected?

What is the federal ruling regarding daily fantasy sports betting?

One of the organizations below has been at the forefront of making website(s) and their content accessible to American viewers with disabilities. Which one?

Under the First Amendment what type of venue is a social media site?

What does the Digital Millennium Copyright Act do?

Which of these examples below would not qualify as an endorsement?

What item below would not be an offense under the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act?

If you were suspected of a crime, could police search your cell phone for possible evidence?

Ella Fant is a huge star. She's seen in movies, on TV and on the cover of all the tabloids. Her Twitter account has over one million followers. One day she tweets out how much she loves milk: to drink, to make cheese, and to bathe in. The next day Ella receives a truckload of milk from the American Dairy Association. Ella must notify her followers of the gift she has received, or she will be guilty of promoting a product without revealing the endorsement.

The Privacy Shield Framework was enacted to allow people to tell companies to delete personal data in what area of the world?

Police units in some parts of the U.S. use this device to track cell phone calls without a warrant; it is called a _____.

Which of the choices below is not a prong of the modified Dendrite test used to unmask anonymous online posters?

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are protected by Sec. 230 of the Communications Decency Act from certain liabilities, and that same protection also extends to which participants below?

How does the UIGEA impact online gambling?

What federal agency responds with legal action against web-based companies that fail to protect user's private data?

What is the best way to define e-personation?

Getting personal data removed from online would be accomplished for what reason(s) below under the Privacy Shield?