If you missed Susan Freiwald and Kevin Bankston discussing ECPA at CIS on January 24th, you can see it on YouTube, complete with Ryan Calo introducing them. CIS Speaker Series – Data Privacy – 1/24/2011 Does the Fourth Amendment protect the privacy of your webmail? Does the government have to get a search warrant before…
Category: Court
Sex Offender Sues MySpace Over Privacy (updated)
Janon Fisher reports: A convicted Georgia sex offender is spearheading an effort to prevent media companies like Yahoo, Myspace and Comcast from honoring search warrants from out-of-state law enforcement, claiming in a Manhattan federal lawsuit that they violate the companies’ privacy policies and federal wiretapping laws. Cory Hubbard, 34, who was convicted in 2008 of…
AMA Responds to Wall Street Journal Lawsuit on Physician Payment Data
Leigh Page reports that the American Medical Association has issued a statement in response to a lawsuit filed by Dow Jones seeking to overturn a long-standing ruling that denied the press access to physicians’ Medicare payment records: In a statement, AMA President Cecil B. Wilson, MD, argued that physicians have a right to keep complex…
Why Corporate Counsel Should Lose Sleep Over the Federal Wiretap Act
Philip L. Gordon writes: Once seen only in the shadows of the war against organized crime, the Federal Wiretap Act should now be moving steadily and rapidly toward the top of the corporate compliance checklist. Robust civil remedies, recent court decisions and technological developments have transformed the act’s risk profile from a nonevent to a…