Robin Wilton responds to a commentary in the New York Times mentioned previously on this blog: There’s an interesting piece on the New York Times site by Professor Stanley Fish, titled “Anonymity and the Dark Side of the Internet”. A quick disclaimer to start with, though: bear in mind that what you’re reading here is…
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Eleventh Circuit Holds That It is a Federal Crime For an Employee To Use His Employer’s Computer For “Non Business Reasons” After Receiving Clear Instruction From Employer Not to Do So
Last week I reported on an Eleventh Circuit decision concerning a former employee of the Social Security Administration who exceeded authorized access to the database to find out personal information on people he knew or was interested in romantically. I also referred to that case in a blog post reminding us that privacy breaches cause…
California Supreme Court: Court: No right to data privacy if you’re arrested
A significant ruling by the California Supreme Court is reported in the Central Valley Business Times today. The news story begins: If you’re arrested in California, even for a traffic stop, police can rifle through the old text messages, photos, video and voice mail on your cell phone without a warrant, the state Supreme Court…
When everything old is new again: Spokeo.com triggers concerns (updated)
Back in March 2010, this blog started including occasional news stories on Spokeo.com, a site that aggregates personal information from publicly available sources and makes it available to anyone and everyone online. How much information you can obtain on someone depends whether you use their free service or their “premium” service. As the site itself…