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- Court decision poses serious privacy threat
- A little Fourth Amendment law: Warrants are required when law enforcement wants to violate citizens' reasonable expectations of privacy. The Supreme Court has held, for instance, that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy when driving a car, since you are putting yourself in public view and using public streets,...
- Tags: Privacy, Courts
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- EFF filing brief in TorrentSpy case
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation has plans to file an amicus brieffor TorrentSpy as it defends itself against copyright violation charges filed by the Motion Picture Association of America, reports CNET News.comThe case is notable because TorrentSpy had attempted to guard against lawsuits by simply not logging any user information. But...
- Tags: Privacy, Courts
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Maine's attempt to force Verizon disclosure moves to CA
- The Maine PUCs attempts to learn whether Verizon provided customer data to the National Security Agency took another turn this week. The case has been assigned to a federal court in California, The Portland Press Herald reports. Last May consumers tried to learn whether the NSA had been provided...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Courts, Privacy
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- Law that bans datamining of drug prescriptions challenged
- May a state bar data mining companies from discovering which individual doctors prescribe brand-name and generic drugs? Thats the question before a federal court this week, reports the Associated Press. Two datamining companies sued the state days after the law took effect, arguing it violates their freedom...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Courts, Privacy
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- Workplace privacy versus computer abuse prevention, which prevails
- Courts are increasingly holding employers responsible for the actions taken by employees using company-owned computers. On the other hand, employees continue to push back through litigation claiming their privacy is being violated. It might come as a surprise to many that employees are sometimes justified in their expectations of workplace...
- Tags: Workplace, Privacy, Computer, Tom Olzak, Courts, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Download resources 2006-12-15
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- How Internet surveillance, IT sleuth work helped indict suspected terrorist Zazi
- Kinda eerieMakes me wonder if I should delete that "Socialism" picture of Obama as the Joker from my machine.There are 2 Issues HereThe first is whether such forensics have a legitimate place in law enforcement and the second is whether these methods can be misused. I believe that the...
- Tags: Blogging, information technology, Zazi, Internet Surveillance, Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-09-25
- Would you march for Internet privacy?
- We've seen it alreadyRemember the recent outcry from the right about "President Obama trying to take control of the internet"? With, I might add, assurances from the left that it's not so. No different really than the left's alarmism at President Bush trying to "personally eavesdrop on every telephone conversation...
- Tags: Internet privacy, Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- Anonymity exposed, part deux: Google, ISPs ordered to expose academic dissidents
- Freedom of anonimityWell done to the judge, everyone has the freedom of speech, where freedom of anonimity doesn't exist in any constitution.If people are going to make damaging remarks, make personal attacks on people and harm others and calim it as freedom of speech, then they should do so publicly....
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail, SECURITY, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- Give Google a break!
- soooo over googlegoogle has joined microsoft and apple on the dark side.i stopped using google after they ceased being a search engine and became a money factory. security, privacy and ownership issues shouldn't be played out in court after the fact, they should be delt with in the board room...
- Tags: COMPANIES, Google Inc., copyright law
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- Makers offer little help for lost or stolen devices
- Credit card number of thiefI assume that the person using a stolen Kindle must have to provide Amazon with a credit card, in order to buy content (assuming the previous owner's credit card was disabled). If so, that means that Amazon even knows who the thief is.I supposeIf the manufacturers...
- Tags: Sales channel, Amazon.com Inc., subpoena
- Discussion threads 2009-09-07
- Google: Pot, kettle, black, Chrome OS and a potential antitrust
- Apple should also be under fire.----Why can?t Microsoft ship a Windows edition without including a browser or at least come under fire from a zillion lawsuits yet Google can?----Well, what about Apple and its tight integration of Safari on the Mac? They are all doing the same bundling but then...
- Tags: Corporate law, Web browsers, Operating systems, Google Inc., Chrome, Chrome OS, Microsoft Corp., operating system, antitrust, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2009-09-04
- Should the anonymity shroud be lifted online?
- Social Network Sites = FOOLS!ONLY fools put private information on a Public_Domain that is anybodies data once it is there...All of these people will regret spewing all of this data all over the Internet where it will reside forever in cache on servers.....Plus the google search that keeps searches FOREVER!!!enjoy...
- Tags: INTERNET, Vertical industries, industry organization, government
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- German court orders Google to change TOS - a little late
- A little late, but, great to hold Googles feet to the fire on privacy and ownership issues. We can not just depend on Google's "do no evil" clause, we must be vigilant against Google and all other providers.True......but as soon as Google made the change A YEAR AGO, don't you...
- Tags: Google Inc., TOS
- Discussion threads 2009-09-01
- Final thoughts on supermodel-blogger catfight
- A few final thoughts on the "skank" blogger case. I was on The Jeff Farias Show Friday talking about this story. Jeff asked me if I was concerned about courts stomping on Internet anonymity and I said, generally, no, that courts must strike a balance between First Amendment rights of...
- Tags: Court, Judge, Rosemary Port, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-23
- Facebook hit by user-privacy lawsuit
- Facebook Hit by Privacy LawsuitThis is not surprising. Facebook need better counsel from their Internet Lawyers. They keep making the same mistake - trying to monetize their email and contact lists while preventing users from objecting to such use. The first thing that Internet Lawyers do when drafting Privacy Policies...
- Tags: INTERNET, Facebook, user-privacy, user-privacy lawsuit
- Discussion threads 2009-08-18
- Consumer Watchdog blasts Google over privacy
- Consumer Watchdog blasts Google over privacyWow. No real surprise there[i]it certainly doesn?t seem that scary to me[/i]Of course not, you've proclaimed that you "Love everything Google does" and think the world of them (but would you fall on your sword, too?)[i]subscribe to the idea that Google collects information to make...
- Tags: Government, E-mail, Google Inc., privacy, Consumer Watchdog
- Discussion threads 2009-07-11
- PC makers ask China Premier to stop Green Dam
- Tech business organizations around the world have signed onto an extraordinary letter to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, asking for executive clemency from China's Green Dam-Youth Escort software, The Wall Street Journal reports. The letter says in part: [Green Dam] raises serious concerns for us and seems to...
- Tags: China, Developer, Taiwan, Government, Vertical Industries, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Bad Idea Dept.: AT&T's Ed Whitacre to run General Motors
- Ed Whitacre, who built SBC, one of the babies Bell, back into "The New AT&T" has been tapped by the Obama Administration's auto task force to be chairman of the "reinvented General Motors." Seriously. Think about that. AT&T is the template for...
- Tags: Board, AT&T Corp., General Motors Corp., Whitacre, Whiteacre, Corporate Governance, Telecom & Utilities, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Should drug companies know what the doctor prescribed
- One of the big controversies heading for the Supremes Court's docket soon will probably be the case of IMS Health vs. Ayotte. It's an interesting test case on what data can do for medicine, asking whether we want it done or not. At issue...
- Tags: Patient, Data, Doctor, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- TurnItIn's archiving of student papers is fair use, court says
- TurnItIn's archiving of student papers is fair use, court saysBad principles in action = subverted copyrightsFair use is a bit of a red herring, especially the so-called 'transformative' test.Basically, iParadigm is using complete works for its own use with the intent of improving their reputation and thus increase their future...
- Tags: Fair Use, archiving, iParadigms, Turnitin
- Discussion threads 2009-04-21
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