Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
History sniffing lawsuit dismissed Recent privacy research has demonstrated the widespread collection of consumer browsing behavior by "history sniffing," as well as by using flash cookies and ETags as tracking…
Note the location of MySpace. Amazing how rapidly the value of Internet-based intellectual property can plummet. Note the cyber-police at the bottom right, as well (image from Mashable.)
ArsTechnica reports that the California legislature is currently considering an anti-piracy bill that threatens to undermine privacy in a big way. Proposed by Senator Padilla, SB 550 would prohibit a…
Available at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110424/ap_on_hi_te/us_wi_fi_warning In Buffalo, a 25-year-old guy logged in to his neighbor house's Wi-Fi connection and downloaded child pornography through the wireless signal. Firstly, the FBI agents suspected the…
Controversy over revelations regarding iPhone and iPad location tracking has been growing quickly. As the New York Times reports, the German, French, and Italian governments have either started or will…
Researchers Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan have discovered a file on the iPhone and 3G-enabled iPads that contain the "latitude and longitude of the phone's recorded coordinates along with a…
http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2011/04/doj-pitches-gps-surveillance-case-to-supreme-court.html http://legaltimes.typepad.com/files/doj_gps_cert.pdf On Friday, the Solicitor General filed a certiorari petition with the Supreme Court to resolve a circuit split on whether a warrant is required for GPS surveillance. The…
Article Link: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-do-not-track-20110406,0,3461978,full.story Link to Bill: http://dist27.casen.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={2C530FAF-6F85-4236-BB30-293D33F815E5} Continuing the groundswell of support for Do-Not-Track across the nation, California State Senator Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) introduced legislation that would force Internet…
Not long ago, denizens of the web were thrown into a frenzy by Chatroulette, an innovative website that randomly paired visitors with webcams for impromptu video chats. Hot off the…
Available at: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748703467304575383522318244234-lMyQjAxMTAxMDAwMzEwNDMyWj.html; Stalkers Exploit Cellphone GPS - Mobile Location Tracking - WSJ.com In August of 2010, the Wall Street Journal reported that global-positioning-system (GPS) technology offered by cellular carriers…