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Legal issues of a user-pic based app?
I'm planning on creating a mobile app based upon the idea of allowing users to take self-portraits and having it shared in a dynamic public gallery (for say, dating purposes, or whatnot). Let's also ...
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Rules and laws on sharing/using customer emails
I'm wondering if there are any specific regulations and laws regarding the use of customer email addresses for companies (more specifically in my case, CA-based corporations). For example, say I had a ...
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Risks of a website that lets users meet up?
I'm looking into creating a website which would be based on users meeting up (nope, not another dating site!). The obvious worry here is users meeting crazy people and bad things happening. Is there ...
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Canadian Hosting issue
My company is Canadian and I'm planning to purchase a VPS account for my business with a Dallas,TX based company. But I'm being told by a friend that this may be a problem for the following reason:
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How to specify that you are not going to share information with third party in Terms of Service
I'm running a site where users generate their data and store it. I do not share it or plan to share it ever with 3rd party. How do you specify that the site is not going to share information with ...
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Legal or Ethical Responsibility to Safely Store Passwords
I'm working as a technical advisor to a start-up company. The company licenses its product (a web and mobile application) to large groups of people who then use it for a relatively short period of ...
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How “private” should a job interview be?
This is the issue of privacy -- and is concerned with keeping everything "open" to an interviewee beforehand.
If you're being "watched" during the interview (through a camera) by other people in a ...
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What is the process to transfer real estate you already own into a newly formed LLC?
I already own several investment properties. However I purchased them in my own name for various financing reasons as the time. Now I would like to move them into LLC's, most likely one for each ...
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Saas - Terms of use, privacy policy
We're getting closer to launching our e-commerce platform, that will be hosted on our dedicated servers, provided by a well known hosting company.
I suppose it's a good idea to have us covered with a ...
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What are best practices for privacy at a web startup?
Beyond the obvious steps -- having a privacy policy, encrypting stored data, supporting https logins and Tor -- what are other best practices for a web startup that wants to do privacy right?
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Address SAAS Data Theft/ Privacy concerns
We have a SAAS product for a specific industry where we host this application for multiple companies. Since they belong to the same industry one of the key concerns of my potential customers is the ...
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List of domain extensions not allowing WhoIs Privacy?
I know that .us domains are not allowing WhoIs Privacy.
Is there any complete or partial list of domain extensions that are not allowing this as well?
Thank you for your time.
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Do terms of service and privacy policy need to be drafted by a lawyer?
I am trying to do a startup web app and I need a terms of service and privacy policy. Is there any way to do it without a lawyer? Why I ask is because I don't have that much money.
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Opt-in rules for Canadian startups
Is it legal in Canada to have lists with single opt-in? (i.e., no confirmation link to click in a confirmation email)
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Is it okay to plagiarize another website's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy?
Let's say you find another website with very similar content and operations. Is it okay to copy their Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, tweaking it to fit your needs?
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Recommendations for a rating/review website
I'm building a web platform to allow users rate/review a niche group of organizations and consultants.
I would love to blog about the development process and design decisions. Should I keep my ...
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Is there such a thing as Privacy Insurance (for storing SSN/EINs)?
Part of my service includes storing social security numbers (SSNs) and employer identification numbers (EINs). I went through the proper protocol of setting up a separate server to store them, ...
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Marketing, Privacy and Being Good
What do you think about drawing the line between privacy and marketing?
For example we're sending e-mail to our mail-list, shall we keep track of their clicks in the e-mail? Personally I hate this ...
