One of the liveliest discussions at the recent Privacy Law Scholar’s Conference was about a paper by Dan Solove and Woody Hartzog, “The FTC and the New Common Law of Privacy.” Because of conference rules, I could not blog about it previously, but the authors have now uploaded it to SSRN, where you can download it for…
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UK: Google wants Safari snooping case heard overseas, claims lawyer
UK Apple users attempting to sue Google over nonconsensual cookies placed in Safari are getting serious pushback from Google. The giant claims it is exempt from UK privacy laws. Caroline Donnelly reports: That’s according to UK law firm Olswang, who is representing a group of UK Apple users who have accused the search giant of…
Groklaw shutters its blog, cites Lavabit’s concerns
Add Groklaw, a tech-related law blog, to the list of sites and services shutting it down in the wake of revelations about NSA surveillance of e-mail. Pamela Jones explains in this blog post. How many more businesses and services will we lose because the government engages in bulk collection of everyone’s records and emails?
Why Google’s Now Encrypting Data In The Cloud
Selena Larson reports: In what seems to be a response to increased anxiety about the privacy of data stored online among both consumers and businesses following revelations of extensive spying by US government agencies, Google announced that Google Cloud Storage, a service used by third-party developers to build cloud apps, now automatically encrypts all data before it…