Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced that his Consumer Protection Division, along with consumer protection agencies from 40 other States and the District of Columbia, have entered into a settlement concerning security breaches which...

A federal judge has referred Facebook's lawsuit against spam king Sanford Wallace to the U.S. Attorney's office for possible criminal prosecution.Microsoft has filed a click fraud suit against three individuals and several corporations they control. ...

In just over six hours, Facebook will begin permitting its users to obtain "vanity" URLs for their Facebook profiles.  According to the popular social networking site,"The one placeanity URLs are becoming an important part of one's online social life,...

Time spent on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn is growing.  Since April 2008, time spent on Facebook has increased by 699%, compared to a 31% drop in time spent on MySpace.  "According to the Associated Press, the U.S. military in Afghanistan is...

Over the past few months, a number of people have visited E-Commerce Law looking for a link to our guest post on About.com's Online Business blog entitled "Starting an Online Business:  Licensing Requirements."  Unfortunately, our link to that guest...