Leah Hudson Leva - Page 4
Freelance writer and researcher at TermsFeed
Leah is an editor and writer published by The Spinoff, The Urbanist, UrbDeZine, and Penguin Random House New Zealand. Leah loves to write about sustainable urban development, data privacy, mental health, and matters of the heart. She spends her time reading, walking her dog, and eating unreasonable amounts of chocolate.
CalOPPA: California Online Privacy Protection Act
The state of privacy legislation in the United States is pretty shocking: there's no overarching federal data privacy law at all. The United States lags far behind Europe and the UK, and even behind many up-and-coming economies in Southeast Asia. The primary data privacy law in the US that applies generally, rather...
What's Missing From Your Landing Page: Clickwrap
The typical marketing approach to landing pages is for all navigation bars to be hidden so that the call-to-action is clear and uncluttered with excess unnecessary web components (navigation, other links etc.) While this may make complete sense from a marketing perspective, this is a huge mistake from a legal perspective. Your...
SaaS, Who Owns the Content of Your Users?
When you create a SaaS product, user-generated content is one of the most common ways to build and grow a community within that app. But if that content is created by users rather than you, who owns it? In intellectual property law, copyright is automatically granted to an original work. This...
SaaS Apps: Is SLA the Right Legal Tool?
All apps and websites need to have legal agreements in place to set out the relationship between the user and the app or website operator. There are numerous different types of legal agreements that you can use for your app, such as Terms of Service, Terms of Use, Terms & Conditions,...
3 key things about the new EU Data Protection law
Some form of EU data protection law has been in force since the mid-90s, but the legislation continues to grow and develop to meet the changing pressures and challenges that come with technology and its increasing reach into the lives of individuals. As a startup, business owner, or e-commerce store operator,...
4 Clauses to Have If You Host User-Generated Content
Web sites and apps built with user-generated content are quickly becoming the norm. There's the rapidly growing language-learning app Duolingo, numerous Facebook quizzes and games, as well as photo-sharing websites and news aggregators such as reddit. They all rely on users to create, or contribute, or share things with others. This...