Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
Available at: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/03/31/google.face/index.html; Google making app that would identify people's faces - CNN.com Google has announced that it is working on a mobile application that would allow users to take…
Surely most of you have seen Google's "new" feature, Gmail Motion. If not, check out the video below: Gmail Motion The April Fools' posting has become a bit of a…
Google Book Search allows anyone to search a massive library of books that Google has scanned. A few years ago, the Authors Guild sued Google to stop the project and…
The Chinese Government has announced plans to track 1.7 million cellphone users in Beijing through location technology, in order to help city authorities better manage traffic (see http://www.bjjtgl.gov.cn/publish/portal1/tab165/info23222.htm). However, this…
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/opinion/19sat2.html The New York Times March 18, 2011 A New Internet Privacy Law? Considering how much information we entrust to the Internet every day, it is hard to believe there…
The mobile ads boom raises privacy concerns, and creative different forms of self-help that customers have been engaged in, as following: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jeUGlbK8zKnVSVB63DXWt-TLOzYg?docId=CNG.ed01c1f733f7929c0e0ee596f28a0c53.3b1 The vast majority of cell phones and tablet…
In FCC v. AT&T, AT&T argued it was a "corporate citizen" entitled to "personal privacy" and thus, entitled to the FOIA exemption that protects an individual's private data. AT&T was…
Google's Street View is a functionality that U.S. Internet users take for granted. When we're looking up a new restaurant to try or checking out a potential apartment, Street View…
Kathryn Stockett, author of the bestselling book The Help, is being sued by a former babysitter for her family for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Ablene…
A bill has been introduced to Congress that would give consumers a right to block certain companies from tracking consumer Internet activities, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman is predicting…