Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
April 2nd, 2015 Robert Durst case; is there a privacy concern on his alleged confession? By: Tomás Kubick Panel 4 Robert Durst, a real state businessman and millionaire, is being…
March 27th, 2015 Wyndham and the Unfairness Jurisdiction By: Ajitha Pichaipillai Panel 5 I would like to write to few paragraphs regarding the Article, “An Era of Rapid Change: The…
March 26, 2015 TV Ads Delivered via Google Fiber: Mad Men’s Dreams Come True at the Cost of Viewers’ Privacy? By: Erin L. Bansal http://www.wired.com/2015/03/google-fiber-ads/ http://www.adweek.com/news/television/google-fiber-may-have-created-game-changer-real-measurement-tv-ad-views-163604 http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/23/google-plans-experiment-with-targeted-ads-for-television/ Google recently announced…
March 26th, 2015 Consumer Privacy Bill and the role of FTC By: Jyotsana Sinha Panel 5 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/03/23/the-ftc-beefs-up-technology-investigations-with-new-office/ http://www.hldataprotection.com/2015/03/articles/consumer-privacy/insights-on-the-consumer-privacy-bill-of-rights-act-of-2015/ While the government is ready to take the next step by enacting…
March 26th, 2015 FTC AND CONSUMER PRIVACY RadioShack’s bankruptcy and Auctioning off Customer Data- A violation of Privacy Policy By: Vasundhara Apte http://www.computerworld.com/article/2901691/new-york-threatens-action-if-radioshack-sells-customer-data.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-24/radioshack-s-bankruptcy-could-give-your-customer-data-to-the-highest-bidder http://www.pcworld.com/article/2902472/about-25-us-states-oppose-sale-of-radioshacks-customer-data.html RadioShack is a leading national…
March 26th 2015 Marketing Drones now flying over Los Angeles Area for Cellphone Location Data By: Sofia Grafanaki Panel 5 http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/23/drones-over-head-in-las-valley-are-tracking-mobile-devices-locations/ http://www.popsci.com/marketing-drones-scanned-la-cellphone-location-data http://www.forbes.com/sites/frankbi/2015/02/23/drones-are-already-intercepting-cell-phone-signals-in-l-a/ A Singapore based marketing company proudly announced…
March 12th, 2015 The Privacy of Regulators http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/us/politics/storing-emails-from-these-senators-will-be-easy-if-they-ever-send-one.html By Emily Naphtal Recently, the New York Times interviewed the “flip phone caucus”, a group of Senators that barely uses email. For…
March 12th, 2015 The Mosaic Theory, Riley, and the Legacy of Jones USA v. Timothy Carpenter (Amicus Brief), Brennan Center for Justice, http://www.brennancenter.org/legal-work/usa-v-timothy-carpenter-amicus-brief “EFF Fights Government's Effort to Get Cell…
March 12th, 2015 “Smart” Cars – In the Fast Lane to Government Regulation By: Thomas A. Warns https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=57d1ca69-4db8-42eb-a56c-c9d198547db3 Last month, Senators Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) announced legislation…
March 12, 2015 Digital Advertising and the Apple Watch By: Daniel Lin This blog post discusses how the material for our March 12, 2015 class, appertaining to models of digital…