BrightTALK Webcast: The Future of Online Notice
By Ryan Calo on August 13, 2009 at 10:54 am
By Ryan Calo on August 13, 2009 at 10:54 am
By Sarah Hinchliff Pearson on March 27, 2009 at 3:26 pm
This week, Harvard’s Cyberlaw Clinic filed an amicus brief with the Illinois Appellate Court in support of hefty procedural safeguards to protect the anonymity of online speakers in defamation lawsuits. The brief was a collaborative effort of a number of organizations, including Berkman’s Citizen Media Law Project, Gannett Corporation, and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. While I agree with the fundamental premise that plaintiffs should have to do more than simply serve a subpoena to compel the defendants to reveal the identity of online speakers, in my view, the position staked out by the amicus coalition simply goes too far. Read more about Accountability and Anonymity: Rethinking the Value of Anonymous Speech
By Amanda Avila on March 11, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Author: José Mauro
Vicki J. Pinero sued Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. (“Jackson Hewitt”) for not complying with its own privacy policy and dumping her tax returns in a public dumpster, together with the returns of 100 other Jackson Hewitt customers. Pinero asserted seven causes of action against Jackson Hewitt, including fraud, breach of contract, negligence, invasion of privacy, as well as violation of Louisiana laws related to database security and unfair trade practices. A federal district court in Louisiana recently dismissed all of Pinero’s claims except invasion of privacy. Read more about Court Allows Invasion of Privacy Claim Against Tax Service Provider for Throwing Away Tax Returns in Public Dumpster
By Zohar Efroni on March 6, 2009 at 2:37 am
This quote belongs to Robin Bienfait, RIM’s Chief Information Office (CIO). RIM makes the BlackBerries, and the title line of this post recites Ms. Bienfait’s answer to the question what information is being recorded on RIM’s internal network (e.g., telephone conversations and email exchange over employees’ devices). Read more about “Everything. I record everything.”