Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
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…
Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has ruled that plaintiffs suing the producers of the “Girls Gone Wild” videos for filming them engaging in sexually explicit…
Professor Ira Rubinstein's comments to the FTC: Comments Professor Helen Nissenbaum's comments: NissenbaumIPTFComments
At a recent conference on information ethics, organized by the Uehiro Center at Oxford University, I met David Erdos, who presented work on challenges confronting the EU approach to data…
A in-depth report Monday in the Washington Post describes the expanding apparatus of US domestic intelligence since the September 11th Terrorist Attacks, including fusion centers, the new Suspicious Activity Reporting…
On December 16, 2010, the U.S. Commerce Department released its report, Policy Framework for Protecting Consumer Privacy Online While Supporting Innovation. It will be interesting to compare and contrast.
From the FTC: "The Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s chief privacy policy and enforcement agency for 40 years, issued a preliminary staff report today that proposes a framework to balance…