Jacqui Cheng reports: Facebook may be making strides in some areas of privacy, but the company is still struggling when it comes to deleting user photos—or not deleting them, as the case may be. We wrote a piece more than a year ago examining whether photos really disappear from social network servers when you delete them, and…
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Cloud Computing Customers’ “Bill of Rights”
David Navetta writes: Needless to say, due in part to our numerous writings on the legal ramifications of Cloud computing, the InfoLawGroup lawyers have been involved in much Cloud computing contract drafting and negotiations, on both the customer and service provider side. As a result, we have seen a lot in terms of negotiating tactics, difficult…
Using RFID tags to track students: peering into the crystal ball
Jennifer Radcliffe of the Houston Chronicle reports that RFID tags for tracking students is in use the Spring and Santa Fe school districts. Spring has been steadily expanding the system since December 2008. Currently, about 13,500 of the district’s 36,000 students have the upgraded badges, which are just slightly thicker than the average ID tag…
More on FBI as “Keystone Kops” sending six to retrieve their found GPS transmitter
Over on FourthAmendment.com, John Wesley Hall follows up on his earlier post about the Afifi GPS case by responding, in part, to one of the questions I had raised as to whether the FBI had a warrant for the surveillance. Pretty much everyone’s assumed they didn’t, but John explains why they probably didn’t: One can…