Matt Thacker reports on a case that demonstrates just how low some people will stoop in a political campaign. Emphasis in the excerpt added by me: The adult daughter of Clark County Commissioner Mike Moore has filed a lawsuit against Citizens for Decency in Government for political mailings sent out prior to the May primary…
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FTC drops P2P file sharing probe of LimeWire
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: In a rare break for LimeWire, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week decided to drop its investigation into the embattled software company’s controversial Peer-to-Peer file sharing software. In a letter addressed to LimeWire CEO George Searle , FTC associate director Mary Engle said the agency’s decision came after LimeWire incorporated safeguards…
Never Make a Promise You Can’t Keep- Especially in Your Privacy Policy
Kevin Khurana of Proskauer writes: Expect the unexpected from your Web site privacy policy. In a handful of cases, including two which were recently decided, companies have been thwarted in various, unexpected ways by the commitments made in their online privacy policies. Are your intellectual property litigators reading your privacy policy? In FenF, LLC v….
Facebook Places Privacy Falls Short, Part 2: Opting-Out
Mike Zimmer writes: A few days ago I blogged about how I was able to check my wife into a local liquor store using Facebook Places without her permission, despite Facebook’s insistence that “No one can be checked in to a location without their explicit permission”. This check-in has remained visible in my news feed,…