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Google Privacy
Google announced today that it is planning to change its privacy policy in the coming months. The official announcement says: "Unless we're legally re…
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The revolution will be televised...on YouTube
I am working in Europe this week with a large technology company, and of course everyone is talking about the filing of a $1 billion copyright infringement case…
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National Security Letters and the FBI Abuses
I weigh in on NSLs and the FBI with today’s Circuit Court column: FBI Slips Demand Patriot Act Cuts. I think the most interesting part of the column is the end…
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On the implementation of the Data Protection Directive in EU
The Commission of European Communities has just issued a communication on the follow-up fo the Work Programme for better implementation of the Data Protection D…
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MySpace Is Not Liable for Third Party Content and Has No Duty to Protect Users from Sexual Assault
Plaintiffs, Jane Doe and her daughter, Julie Doe, filed suit against Defendants, MySpace, Inc. and its parent company, News Corporation, for the role MySpace pl…
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Court Holds Actual Viewing or Recording Unnecessary to Establish a Cause of Action for Invasion of Privacy
Plaintiffs were employed in clerical positions on campus of defendants' residential facility for abused and neglected children. In response to a tip by the…
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Proposal would require Tracking Numbers for FOIA requests
According to National Journal's Technology Daily: The House Oversight and Government Reform Information Policy Subcommittee on Tuesday approved legislation…
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Free Speech 2.0?
The Washington Post ran a story yesterday about postings on the website AutoAdmit, which calls itself "the most prestigious law school admissions discussio…
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Patently Bad Move Gags Critics
Last week, RFID access device company HID Global got IOActive researcher Chris Paget to pull his talk from Black Hat DC because they claimed that demonstrating…
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Bay Area Blawgers Meet Up - March 28
Eric Goldman and the High Tech Law Institute are hosting a legal bloggers meet up in Santa Clara on March 28... Mark your calendars and rsvp. Here are the detai…
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4th Amendment Symposium Audio available
Audio from our January symposium, Search and Seizure in the Digital Age, is available for three of the five speaker panels. * Freiwald panel: Jennifer Granic…
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Government May Retain Intermingled Evidence Seized from MLB Drug Testing Labs
As part of its ongoing investigation into the Bay Area Lab Cooperative (“Balco”) and its alleged distribution of steroids to professional baseball athletes, the…