Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
Panel 5 Pierre-Paul’s Medical Disclosure Claim Against ESPN: Issues of Intersecting Privacy Torts. By: Eliza Marshall The New York Giants’ Jean Pierre-Paul’s suit against ESPN, which pertains to ESPN’s publication…
Privacy Blog (1) By: Maggie Kornreich Professor Rubinstein March 24, 2014 http://www.natlawreview.com/article/health-apps-and-hipaa-ocr-publishes-new-guidance-health-app-developers This article addresses whether mobile device applications are subject to HIPAA regulations. In February, the Department of Health…
Information Privacy: Blog Post (Panel 6) By:Harry Grabow http://www.marketplace.org/2016/02/10/business/new-frontier-voter-tracking http://fusion.net/story/268108/dstillery-clever-tracking-trick/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/02/08/company-tracked-iowa-caucusgoers-phones/80005966/ In the first United States Presidential campaign since the 2013 Snowden, candidates have expressed varying opinions of both the…
PRG long-time participant Luke Stark's research on emotion has been published in Information Society: https://starkcontrastdotco.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/01972243-2015.pdf DOJ postpones hearing on Apple case: http://fortune.com/2016/03/21/doj-court-hearing-apple-postpone/ Utah tests online voting in state caucus: http://www.npr.org/2016/03/22/471474745/utah-republicans-to-test-online-voting-in-states-caucus
Privacy Blog By: Mary Churan Huang http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/google-eu-s-data-protection-authorities-have-absolute-focus-on-privacy-1.2556597 This article discusses the positions taken by some of the world’s largest multinational companies in respect of the EU’s incoming General Data Protection…
A Consumer Privacy Legislation? A Highly Debated Proposal since 2012 By: Ida Faustine Jacotey http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/29/technology/obamas-effort-on-consumer-privacy-falls-short-critics-say.html In February 2012, the White House, released “A framework for protecting Privacy and promoting innovation…
Dstillery Tracked 16,000 Iowa Caucus-goers via their phones: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dstillery-iowa-caucus_us_56c12cafe4b08ffac125b591 Facebook faces privacy-related antitrust enforcement in Germany: http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/02/facebook-faces-german-antitrust-privacy-probe/ FCC Settles with Verizon over super cookies: http://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-to-pay-1-35m-to-settle-fcc-probe-of-supercookies-1457372226
On Monday, the European Commission issued the legal texts that will put in place the EU-US Privacy Shield, and replace the former Safe Harbour framework. The Privacy Shield will not…
American tech companies, especially those running social networking sites, often pride themselves on giving voice and information to oppressed netizens around the world. Many commend Twitter’s role in facilitating coordination…
Supreme Court hears oral argument on key exclusionary rule case: http://www.scotusblog.com/2016/02/argument-analysis-court-closely-divided-on-the-exclusionary-rule/ House Judiciary Committee meets on February 25 on International Conflicts of Law Concerning Cross Border Data Flow and Law Enforcement…