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City of (Big) Brotherly Love
I imagine the subset of individuals that read the Center's blogs but not, for instance, Boing Boing to be in the (low) single digits. I still could not res…
Notice by Design
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Oh (Big) Brother
Author and fellow SLS fellow Laura K. Donohue brought this deliciously ironic picture to my attention. Click here for a close up. If you happen to be in the D…
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Coming Soon: Smell, Touch, And Dead People
In arguing for the ongoing constitutionality of the commercial/noncommercial distinction in billboard regulation in the wake of City of Cincinnati v. Discovery…
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Ruiz v. Gap, Inc.
Was March National Privacy Month and no one told me? (October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, so don't try to hack anything.) In addition to a…
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No Cause Needed to Search Laptops at the Border
On April 21st, the Ninth Circuit held in United States v. Arnold (pdf) that the Fourth Amendment does not require government agents to have reasonable suspicion…
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Facebook 'Em, Dano
EPIC fellow Guilherme Roschke writes about the sophisticated Facebook presence of Greater Manchester Police and its ramifications for citizen privacy. He notes…
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Bork, Blockbuster & Beacon
Ars Technica reports: "Texas native Cathryn Elaine Harris has filed a lawsuit against Blockbuster, alleging that the company is actively and knowingly vio…
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Personal Genome Services
The MIT/Stanford VLAB hosted an interesting event this week on the impact of personal genome services on the healthcare industry. Privacy was discussed, but no…
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EC Article 29 Working Party Releases Search Engine Report
The European Commission’s Article 29 Working Party has released its “Opinion on data protection issues related to search engines,” recommending a shorter retent…
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The Newspaper Association of America Misreads The FTC
Nestled in among the latest round of public comments solicited by the Federal Trade Commission on “behavioral advertising” was a little gem: a filing by the New…
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Court holds Privacy Act "actual damages requirement" does not require pecuniary harm
I'm breaking blog silence to report on an amazing decision out of the DC Circuit holding that the federal Privacy Act's requirement that Plaintiffs show…
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The Information Revolution in 10 years
I had the pleasure of participating in the excellent Legal Futures Conference sponsored by CIS and Google last month, where I was on a panel of “lightning talke…