ILI Student Blog – Page 31 – Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy

TV Ads Delivered via Google Fiber: Mad Men’s Dreams Come True at the Cost of Viewers’ Privacy?

Ashley Jacques March 27, 2015 11:27 am 0Comments

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…

Consumer Privacy Bill and the role of FTC

Ashley Jacques March 27, 2015 11:23 am 0Comments

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…

RadioShack’s bankruptcy and Auctioning off Customer Data- A violation of Privacy Policy

Ashley Jacques March 26, 2015 4:42 pm 0Comments

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…

Marketing Drones now flying over Los Angeles Area for Cellphone Location Data

Ashley Jacques March 26, 2015 9:24 am 0Comments

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…

The Privacy of Regulators

Ashley Jacques March 12, 2015 4:40 pm 0Comments

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…

The Mosaic Theory, Riley, and the Legacy of Jones

Ashley Jacques March 12, 2015 4:38 pm 0Comments

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…

“Smart” Cars – In the Fast Lane to Government Regulation

Ashley Jacques March 12, 2015 4:36 pm 0Comments

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…

Digital Advertising and the Apple Watch

Ashley Jacques March 12, 2015 3:12 pm 0Comments

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…

Privacy Concerns Rise as Consumers Seek Substitutes for Traditional Television

Ashley Jacques March 12, 2015 1:52 pm 0Comments

March 12th, 2015 Panel 6 Privacy Concerns Rise as Consumers Seek Substitutes for Traditional Television http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2015/03/11/americans-are-moving-faster-than-ever-away-from-traditional-tv/ By: Gerard Cicer For broadcast and cable networks, the writing is on the wall.…

Behind the Times: Playing Catch-Up with Privacy Law

Ashley Jacques March 9, 2015 9:31 am 0Comments

March 9th, 2015 Behind the Times: Playing Catch-Up with Privacy Law By: Otis Comorau Article: Law Firm Founds Project to Fight ‘Revenge Porn,’ The New York Times, Jan. 29, 2015…