Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
By: Su Mien Tee On March 19, 2013, the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations held a hearing on ECPA reform. The Department of…
By: Cindy Hu (Hsin-Yi Hu) Under the U.S. law, the so-called “border search exception” allows government to search the international travelers - including the U.S. citizens - and their…
By: Brian Harris The Department of Homeland Security has recently released a response to an ACLU challenge about its border patrol policies. The ACLU challenged the DHS’s policy of…
By: Ken Chen Researchers at MIT and Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium have conducted a 15-months analysis of mobile phone data for about 1.5 million users and they…
By: Jimmy Matteucci On March 21, two bills were introduced in the House and the Senate that would prohibit law enforcement and private investigators from utilizing GPS data or…
By Tanata Tantasathien Social networking sites such as Facebook and Google+ enable people to interact and develop relationships in a whole new way- deviated from traditional face-to-face communications and not…
By: John Sadlik Retail-theft databases, which are used by retailers for background checks on potential employees and to track employee thefts, are facing increased scrutiny from private lawyers and federal…
By: Adam Shamah SCOTUSBlog's "Petition of the day" Tuesday was the cert. petition in Jennings v. Broome, which asks the Supreme Court to answer "Whether e-mails stored by an e-mail…
By: Thomas Prieto The Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, better known as the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970, requires banks to create and keep specific records, which…
By: Wesley Horner I used to have a remote control helicopter. OK, I still do. One of the great things about technology is that as it becomes economical to make…