Over on The Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr notes: Today Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Krause, the prosecutor in the Lori Drew case, filed a notice of appeal of the District Court’s decision granting the motion to dismiss. It’s important to note that this does not mean the case will actually be appealed. The Solicitor General must…
Judge orders Google to deactivate user’s Gmail account, but wait, there’s more…
Wendy Davis reports that in the Rocky Mountain Bank case previously covered here: In a highly unusual move, a federal judge has ordered Google to deactivate the email account of a user who was mistakenly sent confidential financial information by a bank. The order, issued Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge James Ware in the…
Social Network Site Privacy: A Comparative Analysis of Six Sites
Research by Jennifer Barrigar for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada compares Facebook, Hi5, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, MySpace, and Skyrock. This report was prepared for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner by Jennifer Barrigar, a consultant and researcher with experience in both privacy law and developments in internet technology. It was originally commissioned in…
Privacy and the 2010 Olympics
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has created a web page to address privacy concerns and the 2010 Olympics: Next February and March, Canada will host the world at the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. As the first international “mega-event” to take place in Canada in the post-9/11 era, the Vancouver Winter Games…