Judy Lin of Associated Press reports: California lawmakers on Thursday rejected an Internet privacy bill for a second time after heavy lobbying from Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites that objected to more state regulation. The state Senate rejected SB242, which fell two votes short of the majority needed. The bill, which would have required…
Category: Laws
Korea Announces Regulations to Personal Information Protection Act
As reported by Kwang Hyun Ryoo and Ji Yeon Park of Bae, Kim & Lee LLC in Korea, on May 24, 2011, the government of South Korea published draft regulations to the Personal Information Protection Act (“PIPA”), the Republic’s new omnibus data protection law. As we previously reported, PIPA was enacted on March 29, 2011, after past…
The crooks who created modern wiretapping law
Matthew Lasar writes: Meet Roy Olmstead and Charles Katz—one was a Prohibition era bootlegger, the other a ’60s gambler. Neither did anything earthshaking with their lives, but history remembers them both because their arrests, based on warrantless telephone taps, reached the United States Supreme Court. In the two cases that resulted, the Supremes took starkly…
Lawyer Asks: Did The New York Times Violate A 1986 Law For Its “Fabulous Fab” Story?
Katya Wachtel reports: This morning the New York Times published a huge story about Goldman Sachs trader, Fabrice Tourre, and the peculiarity of him being the only Wall Streeter to be prosecuted for creating and selling shoddy mortgage securities. One of the most interesting parts of the story, however, is the way in which the…