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…
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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…
FL: Scott signs law requiring drug testing for welfare recipients
Kathleen Haughney reports: Thousands of the state’s poorest Floridians will have to take a drug test if they want to qualify for welfare assistance, under a law signed by Gov. Rick Scott Monday. The idea, plugged by Scott and the GOP-dominated Legislature, is that drug tests will root out welfare recipients who are using public…