Alaina Lancaster reports: California’s chief justice warned Facebook Inc.’s Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher attorneys that they can expect more court appearances over criminal defendants’ access to private social media messages in order to build a defense. During a video hearing Tuesday, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye said that the court had never confronted the…
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NYS Education Department rules Success Academy and its CEO violated student privacy
Since 2015, PogoWasRight.org has been reporting on a federal student privacy complaint against Success Academy Charter Schools and its CEO, Eva Moskowitz. The complaint alleged the school and its CEO improperly disclosed an identifiable student’s disciplinary records to a reporter who was investigating complaints against the school. From the outset, this site and blogger noted…
Google’s Privacy Policy Can’t Save it From Smartphone Spying Claim: California Privacy Laws Tested in Suit Alleging Big Tech is Letting Subcontractors Listen in on Your Conversations
Zarish Baig of Squire Patton Boggs writes: It was not long ago when we were first spooked to see advertisements in our browsers directed at things we were talking about “offline” moments earlier. Could our smart phones be recording our conversations? Is it legal? Is it even possible? Well, short answer—your smartphone is always listening to you…
Op-Ed: Coronavirus tracing apps are coming. Here’s how they could reshape surveillance as we know it
Privacy law scholar and professor Woodrow Hartzog has an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times: Last week, the world got a preview of how Google and Apple’s contact tracing project might look and function. Some privacy and security experts have expressed cautious optimism that the effort could be a potentially useful tool to aid public health contact tracers while protecting…