Tim Hull reports: A federal law that protects the privacy of emails and other electronic communications extends to foreign nationals, the 9th Circuit ruled Monday, allowing Microsoft to protect the emails of an Indian citizen accused of fraud in Australia. Read more on Courthouse News. What’s particularly nice about this case is that it was…
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California’s Reader Privacy Act Signed into Law
A press release from EFF: California Governor Jerry Brown has signed the Reader Privacy Act, updating reader privacy law to cover new technologies like electronic books and online book services as well as local bookstores. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) were sponsors of the bill, authored by California…
Private Conversations and the Disclosure of Private Facts Tort
Eugene Volokh has a commentary on The Volokh Conspiracy that will likely surprise some people and inform: Occasionally, I see assertions that disclosing certain private information about someone — for instance, details of their sex lives, medical history, or financial affairs — would be tortious, even if the disclosure is in a private conversation. (See,…
Online Safety, an Ongoing Education
Clarinette, a lawyer and fervent privacy advocate, has a thoughtful post about keeping parents abreast of online safety issues for kids. Over on Fly a Kite, she describes her experience at a school meeting for parents about online privacy. The turnout was disappointing, the materials outdated, and Clarinette writes: Do we know everything? Surely not….