Back in September 2010, I noted that the Court of Appeals in Virginia had agreed to hear a case involving the use of GPS to track a man suspected of sexually assaulting women. The GPS device had been place in the bumper of his work van. Thanks to Bob Gelman for letting me know that…
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Article: From Facebook to Mug Shot: How the Dearth of Social Networking Privacy Rights Revolutionized Online Government Surveillance
Interesting law review article by Junichi P. Semitsu: From Facebook to Mug Shot: How the Dearth of Social Networking Privacy Rights Revolutionized Online Government Surveillance, 31 Pace L. Rev. 291 (2011). Abstract: Each month, Facebook’s half billion active users disseminate over 30 billion pieces of content. In this complex digital ecosystem, they live a parallel life…
Lawsuit targeting RockYou data breach gets green light
Dan Goodin reports: A federal judge has declined to dismiss a lawsuit filed against social-media application developer RockYou for exposing the personally identifiable information of 32 million of its users, which the site stored unencrypted when it suffered a major security breach 16 months ago. Judge Phyllis Hamilton of the US District Court in the…
Government publishes cookie law plans and says browser settings cannot give consent
Browser settings alone cannot be used by web users to give consent to their behaviour being tracked under a new EU law, the UK Government has said. The Government said that it will implement the EU law by a 25 May deadline. The Government has confirmed it will go ahead with a previously-announced plan to…