Over on Concurring Opinions, Peter Swire explains why he doesn’t teach the privacy torts in his privacy law class. He writes, in part: Privacy torts aren’t about the data. They usually are individualized revelations in a one-of-a-kind setting. Importantly, the reasonableness test in tort is a lousy match for whether an IT system is well…
Category: Misc
Here Come ‘Da Judge: Alex Kozinski on “The Dead Past”
I’ve often commented how much I enjoy reading opinions by Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. His article in Stanford Law Review, The Dead Past, makes for great reading on privacy. The icing on the cake? He ends the article by quoting this blog’s inspiration, Pogo: “We have met…
When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here’s what Facebook sends the cops
Carly Carioli writes: …. One of the most fascinating documents we came across was the BPD’s subpoena of Philip Markoff’s Facebook information. It’s interesting for a number of reasons — for one thing, Facebook has been pretty tight-lipped about the subpoena process, even refusing to acknowledge how many subpoenas they’ve served. Social-networking data is a contested…
Facebook Subpoenas, Open Court Records, Here We Go Again
Deven Desai writes: The Boston Phoenix has an article about what Facebook coughs up when a subpoena is sent to the company. The paper came across the material as it worked on an article called Hunting the Craigslist Killer. The issues that come to mind for me are 1. Privacy after death? In may article Property, Persona, and…