Privacy lawyer Andy Serwin responds to a blog entry by fellow privacy lawyer Daniel Solove on data breaches and “harm:” Dan Solove has written extensively on privacy theory as well as harm in the data breach context and recently posted on harm in the data breach context. Solove’s post discusses the issues plaintiff’s face in privacy litigation…
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Are People Really Harmed By a Data Security Breach?
Daniel Solove comments on the implications of the Maine Supreme Court’s decision that victims of the Hannaford Bros. breach cannot sue under Maine law for effort and time lost because they are not “cognizable injuries.” There’s just so much goodness in his blog entry that I am at a loss as to what to excerpt….
The Fourth Amendment in 2020
Christopher Slobogin comments: Over the past 200 years, the Fourth Amendment’s guarantees have been construed largely in the context of what might be called “physical searches”—entry into a house or car, a stop and frisk of a person on the street, or rifling through a person’s private papers. But today, with the introduction of devices…
NJ man indicted for alleged computer crimes
Lisa Coryell reports: A Robbinsville man has been indicted on charges of computer-related theft and stalking for allegedly installing spyware on a computer he gave to a 12-year-old acquaintance so he could track her online activities. […] “A forensic search of the computer turned up tracking spyware that captured and recorded key strokes, snapshots of…