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By Omer Tene • April 8, 2014 at 10:02 am
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) resounding victory over Wyndham Worldwide Corporation in a U.S. District Court paves the way for increasing privacy and data security action by the agency, which over the past decade has asserted itself as the most forceful and well-respected privacy enforcement authority in the world. Read more » about In Standoff with FTC, Wyndham Shoots Itself in the Foot
By Jennifer Granick • April 8, 2014 at 9:17 am
Today, the European Court of Justice struck down the European Union’s 2006 Data Retention Directive. That policy required member states to force communications companies to store citizens' telecommunications data for six to 24 months. Read more » about Big Privacy Win in the EU
By Giancarlo Frosio • April 8, 2014 at 7:21 am
Retrospect is the monthly newsletter of the Internet & Jurisdiction Project - a global multi-stakeholder dialogue process that explores the tension between the cross-border nature of the Internet and national jurisdictions. Every month, the members of the Internet & Jurisdiction Observatory expert network identify the 20 most relevant cases through a progressive filtering process to inform the participants of the Internet & Jurisdiction Project on emerging trends around the world. Read more » about March 2014 in Retrospect: Intermediary Liability News and More from the Internet and Jurisdiction Project
"Assuming an adversary, whether a criminal or intelligence agency, has a presence on the network, the working premise here is that the first- and third-party cookies dropped by sites and advertisers can be used to tie a user to web traffic without having to worry about dynamic IP addresses,” said the paper, “Cookies that give you away: Evaluating the surveillance implications of web tacking,” written by Dillon Reisman, Steven Englehardt, Christian Eubank, Peter Zimmerman, and Arvind Narayanan." Read more » about Connecting the Dots Between Cookies and Identities
"Public sensitivity about privacy was heightened by revelations of U.S. surveillance activities by the National Security Agency, as leaked by former spy contractor Edward Snowden, said Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington who recently wrote a paper about the legal and social implications of robotics." Read more » about Poll: Tech Companies Encroach Too Much on Personal Data
"At the conference, cyberlaw professor Ryan Calo discussed his forthcoming paper "Robotics and the New Cyberlaw." Internet law defined the vanguard of cyberlaw issues in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but Calo argues that the next wave of legal showdowns will relate to robotics, which have an altogether different set of essential qualities when compared with the Internet. Robotics blurs the line between people and instruments. More so than any other technology in history, robots feel to us like social actors. Read more » about As human laws grapple with robots, there are no easy answers
"Immigration attorney Ray Ybarra Maldonado said law enforcement needs probable cause to detain or search you. Still, he said it's best to comply - but record the exchange.
"It starts at the checkpoints, and it's going to go to the interior, so unless people exercise their rights and stand up for their privacy today, the future is going to look pretty bleak," Ybarra Maldonado said." Read more » about AZ immigration attorney debunks parody border checkpoint video
"In the United States, someone injured by a small drone would have a strong case against the person remotely flying it, even if the injured party was simply startled by the drone and fell down, Ryan Calo, an assistant professor of law at the University of Washington, told NBC News.
It’s not that different from lawsuits involving any other product. The story might be different, however, if the drone was hacked. Read more » about Drone Crashes Could Cause Headaches and Lawsuits
"To the Editor:
The article throws into stark relief the differences between the United States and Britain and why we should be grateful for the First Amendment. If the United States government were to coerce Internet service providers into installing filtering software by default, that would violate the Constitution." Read more » about Pornography, Children and Parents
