Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
Shaelyn Dawson http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2013/02/19/116575/google_faces_heat_for_privacy_policies?category=technology This article from only two days ago explains how Google is under fire from both Microsoft and the European Union for its violation of privacy…
Marissa Schwartz Brad Smith was an amazing guest speaker! As lead general counsel for Microsoft, he knows the in and outs of the tech market and even more about…
Emi Briggs http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21499190 http://epic.org/2013/02/europe-prepares-action-against.html http://mashable.com/2012/01/24/google-changes-again-launches-one- privacy-policy-to-rule-them-all/ http://ftc.gov/opa/2012/08/google.shtm On January 2012 Google launched a new master privacy policy that created an umbrella policy to cover its…
Chad Sandler Aaron Swartz was indicted in 2011under the CFAA and wiretapping statute for exceeding his authorized access to the research portal JSTOR and downloading and disseminating articles from JSTOR.…
Yoav Simchoni Vertically-integrated tech companies compete vigorously across multiple product lines to try and capture market share. A large part of this competition revolves around marketing and branding campaigns,…
Alina Mejer http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57377084-93/netflix-pays-$9-million-to-settle-privacy-violation-lawsuit/ In keeping with this week’s discussion about statutes that regulate commercial entities’ use of personal data, this recent article about Netflix highlighted how consumers can…
Anisha Mehta Earlier this month the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached an $800,000 settlement with Path for violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (Coppa). The Act regulates…
Johnston Chen http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/26/technology/eu-privacy-proposal-lays-bare-differences-with-us.html?_r=0 In January, the United States government and Silicon Valley lobbied against European efforts to increase consumer information privacy law in the European Union. At that time,…
Catalina Carmona For quite some time now, both industry and privacy advocates have pointed out the need of reforming the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). The main argument is…
Zachary King This past Sunday 60 Minutes aired a report about the enormous amount of mistakes made by credit reporting agencies. (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57567957/40-million-mistakes-is-your-credit-report-accurate/). In the report Steve Kroft cites…