Evan Brown writes: Unlike some recent cases such as Romano v. Steelcase, which seem to give the impression that the information in a person’s social networking account is always fair game for discovery in litigation, one New York court has come down on the side of protecting the privacy of a Facebook user’s content. Plaintiff was…
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NYC transit union chief seeks to unmask blogger
Jennifer Peltz of the Associated Press reports: The head of New York City’s transit union wants to go after an anonymous blog that has blasted him, and he asked a court Friday to make Google tell him who’s responsible. John Samuelsen says in court papers that the blog has repeatedly attacked him with false accusations…
Watchdog Planned for Online Privacy
Julia Angwin reports: The Obama administration is preparing a stepped-up approach to policing Internet privacy that calls for new laws and the creation of a new position to oversee the effort, according to people familiar with the situation. The strategy is expected to be unveiled in a report being issued by the U.S. Commerce Department…
Google, Facebook duke it out over user data
Sharon Gaudin reports: Things are getting a bit heated between two of the largest Internet companies as they spar over users’ data. Google and Facebook, which increasingly seem to be rivals, have been engaged in a war of words this week over data portability. The issue boils down to the ability to move user data…