Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
"The Android developer who raised the ire of a mobile-phone monitoring company last week is on the attack again, producing a video of how the Carrier IQ software secretly installed…
Facebook has announced its long-rumored privacy settlement with Facebook. The complaint focuses on several allegedly deceptive acts by Facebook, as listed in the press release:In December 2009, Facebook changed its…
Is my Mac laptop using cell tower information to calculate and transmit my location to third parties? I believe the answer is yes. Here is my evidence. I cleared recent…
Joe Hall here. An intriguing story flew past my Twitter stream, that begins: "MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Detailed medical information discovered on the back of a first-grader’s school drawing sent Minneapolis…
That's quite an interesting article! Court makes it official: You have no privacy online Eleni Gessiou
(x-posted from Coffee House Talks) In doing the initial framing for an article on how to apply Helen Nissenbaum's theory of Contextual Integrity to the 4th Amendment, it has become…
Orin Kerr ponders oral arguments in United States v. Jones (reposted from The Volokh Conspiracy): I was at the Supreme Court this morning for the oral argument in United States…
The FTC and ScanScout came to a settlement over ScanScout's deceptive use of Flash cookies. ScanScout used Flash cookies to track users, but its privacy policy merely stated a user…
As a follow-up to Helen's post about Verizon's new privacy practices, EPIC has filed an FTC complaint alleging that the move amounts to an unlawful trade practice.
Michael Degusta has a wonderful blog post up about the history of missing software updates for Android smartphones, compared to Apple's iPhone. A sample: In this chart, green blocks represent…