Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
Does your level of Fourth Amendment protection vary inversely with the convenience of your digital life? Matthew Smith Today, Ars Technica published an excellent rundown of the various approaches that…
Kevin Frick “Can You Track Me Now?...Good.” Do Police Need a Warrant for Cell Phone Location Data? Last week, the question of whether law enforcement officials required to get a…
Mu-Chia Kao 9th Circuit: ECPA protects domestic communications of non-US citizens In Suzlon Energy Ltd. v. Microsoft Corp., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit uphold a…
Hannah Bloch-Wehba US continues to receive wholesale financial data from EU banking org. without a warrant The Europol Joint Supervisory Body (JSB) recently released a report confirming that the U.S. continues to…
Patrick McCarthy Supreme Court Ruling Prompts FBI to Turn Off 3,000 Tracking Devices The Federal Bureau of Investigation is scrambling to comply with the Supreme Court’s recent decision…
Christian Oronsaye Privacy Rights Groups Fight FAA on Use of Drones in U.S. Reports have it that some privacy advocacy groups have petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in connection…
Christian Oronsaye Supreme Court Justices say GPS tracker violated privacy rights The United States Supreme Court on Monday (01/23/2012) unanimously ruled that the police violated the Constitution when they placed…
Christopher Poole Private Sector Brushes Up Against EU’s “Right to be Forgotten” In January of this year the European Commission unveiled a series of proposed reforms to the…
Khan Shing Class Action Over Facebook Sponsored Stories Proceeds Late last year, Facebook rolled out its “Sponsored Story” ad program. Among the online marketing community, this was probably…
Felicity Kohn California has reached an agreement designed to protect the privacy of mobile app users with Amazon.com, Apple, Google, HP, Microsoft, and a company called Research in Motion. The…