Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
Monte Frenkel Flipping the Script http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/jason-patric-gus-spawns-first-696707 Traditionally, the link between celebrities, privacy, and the first amendment follows a well-worn path—The media invades a famous person’s privacy, the famous person seeks…
David Yin “Tracking the Brothers Katzin” In May, the Third Circuit will rehear en banc the case of United States v. Katzin. In Katzin, a panel of Third Circuit judges…
Wei-Chen Hung http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/microsoft-to-stop-inspecting-private-emails-in-investigations/ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/technology/microsofts-software-leak-case-raises-privacy-issues.html The issue arising here is the legitimacy of Microsoft’s investigation which accessed the Hotmail content of a user who was tracking in stolen Microsoft source code.…
Oliver Richards The fallout of Edward Snowden's revelations continue to echo throughout the world. Under a threat by European Parliament to veto future trade agreements, the U.S. Department of Commerce…
Yali Hu http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/world/asia/nsa-breached-chinese-servers-seen-as-spy-peril.html?_r=0 http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/spying-reform-panel-the-world-is-not-the-nsas-playground/ N.S.A. documents provided by the former contractor Edward J. Snowden indicate that N.S.A. has been conducted surveillance on the Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei, a private company,…
Gabriel Gutiérrez Documents Say NSA Pretends to be Facebook in Surveillance , from the Wall Street Journal’s Big Data Blog, written by Reed Albergotti and Danny Yadron The article “reveals"…
Jeffrey Ritholtz http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-administration-faces-foia-fire-over-ambassador-picks/article/2545253 http://washingtonexaminer.com/examiner-editorial-foia-reform-a-step-forward-for-government-transparency/article/2544763 The Obama administration has come under fire in recent weeks for its failure to publicize the “Certificates of Demonstrated Competence” that the State Department fills out…
Fanny Pelpel http://threatpost.com/justice-dept-eases-gag-order-on-fisa-national-security-letter-reporting/103903 This article deals with National Security Letters (NSL) and the gag order that is applied with regards to them in particular. This issue has generated a lot…
Yael Tzipori http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/02/06/no-fourth-amendment-right-in-metadata-embedded-in-posted-photo-court-holds/ On January 30, 2014, a judge of the Southern District of Texas determined that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in the metadata embedded in a…
Angela Lelo http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/how-sotomayor-undermined-obamas-nsa This article’s author discusses the influence that Sotomayor’s concurring opinion in U.S. v. Jones has already had on the White House, federal judges, and legal scholars. To…