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Category: Internet and Society
Privacy Spot - August 07, 2007
Citing the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the Houston Independent School District has refused a request for baseball statistics it gathers during publicly attended baseball games.
FERPA prohibits a federally funded educational institution from allowing the disclosur
InternetCases.com - July 26, 2007
Written by Anthony Burch
I worked for Blockbuster Video for the better part of six months. I was used at several different stores as a shift manager, and had to deal wi
Privacy Spot - July 19, 2007
Sources are reporting that an SSN protection bill has been proposed in the House. The bill would attempt to limit the use of SSNs by government and private entities. New criminal and civil penalties, including prison time, are
Privacy Spot - July 19, 2007
The government can legally obtain IP addresses of websites a person has visited and to/from addresses from a person's emails without a warrant according to a new Ninth Circuit ruling. The case,
Privacy Spot - July 16, 2007
Retailers will be forced to pay for data compromises when they violate industry standards of data protection under a new Minnesota law, detailed
Privacy Spot - July 13, 2007
Ohio is reporting a compromise of the personal data of over one million people and businesses. An intern left a "data device" in an unlocked car and discovered it missing. The state is offering free identity theft protection from Debix for up to a year. So far almost 60,000 people have
Privacy Spot - July 02, 2007
A Sixth Circuit panel recently held that users have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the content of their email, even where the ISP has a contractual right to look at the emails. Unless the user policy provides for monitoring, inspecting or auditing of the account, "there is a societal e
Privacy Spot - April 24, 2007
Google's newly announced Web History product has pushed the "Google is Big Brother" camp
Privacy Spot - April 24, 2007
A personal lubricant company allowed Google to indiscriminately roam through intimate sensitive information about people who requested free samples of its products.
Privacy Spot - April 20, 2007
Several sources, including The New York Times, are reporting that the Department of Agriculture inadvertently published the Social Security numbers of indiv
InternetCases.com - April 12, 2007
Veoh Networks' Viral (for which I am the Legal Correspondent) has released Episode 18. I do a brief piece on the basics of copyright. My part comes in at abo
InternetCases.com - April 10, 2007
State v. A.B., No. 67A01-0609-JV-372 (Ind. App. April 9, 2007) [Download the opinion.]
A middle school girl in Greencastle, Indiana created a bogus MySpace profile impersonating her school's p
InternetCases.com - April 09, 2007
Great Notions, Inc. v. Danyeur, No. 06-656, 2007 WL 944407 (N.D. Tex. March 28, 2007)
Courts faced with the question of personal jurisdiction involving eBay transactions have consistently held that the typical online auction process, in and of itself, is insufficient to conf
InternetCases.com - April 05, 2007
Room 214, a Boulder, Colorado based "search marketing and social media agency" produces the weekly Capture the Conversation podcast. My buddy Kris Smith
InternetCases.com - April 04, 2007
For the past several months the controversy around video blogger Josh Wolf has swirled, as he served time in a federal corrections center for contempt of court. Wolf chose to be incarcerated last year rather than turn over to the feds footage of a San Franci
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