Socially Aware - Volume 5, Issue 4 - July 2014

“Selfie” Assessment – 4 Key Lessons from Snapchat’s Settlement with the FTC

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Top 10 in Law Blogs: Snapchat Charges, Patenting Cloned Sheep, Mining Tumblr

Friday already? Well, it’s time for one last Top 10 before we head out into the weekend. The FTC dinging Snapchat with privacy charges was big news on the network today—we have a post here in the Top 10 with analysis, and Anna captures the larger context over on LXBN. Total posts on the LexBlog Network today: 177.

• LabMD Rulings May Shed Future Light on “Reasonable” Data Security Practices – Michelle Kisloff and Adam Cooke of Hogan Lovells on the firm’s blog, Chronicle of Data Protection
• Snapchat Settles FTC Charges – Washington, DC lawyer Katherine Gasztonyi of Covington & Burling on the firm’s blog, InsidePrivacy
• Lose 20 Lbs in One Week Without Diet or Exercise!* (FTC Promulgates New Tool for Spotting False Claims) – Washington, DC attorney Kathryne Dickerson of Wiley Rein on the firm’s blog, Wiley on Media

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Messaging Wars: Vine vs. Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat

Vine unveiled private messaging on Thursday. Here's how the new service stacks up.

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BY KURT WAGNER

It’s been hard to ignore the meteoric rise of the private messaging industry over the past two months.

First came Facebook's jaw-dropping $16 billion purchase of standalone messaging service WhatsApp in February. Chat app Viber was acquired by Rakuten for $900 million. Then messaging startup Tango raised $280 million in March, a funding round that valued the company at more than $1 billion, according to Forbes.

SEE ALSO: Why Social Networks Are Crazy for Private Messaging

http://mashable.com/2014/04/04/social-network-messaging-vine/

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