Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
By Nick Harmon This past February,the Supreme Court heard oral argument on the constitutionality of warrantless DNA collection from arrestees. When Maryland v. King is eventually decided, it will form yet another brick in…
By: Show Wang Article link: http://www.ediscoverylaw.com/2013/02/articles/case-summaries/court-considers-the-persnickety-but-persistent-question-of-what-qualifies-as-content-under-the-stored-communications-act/ The article contains a link to a court opinion, which can be seen here: http://www.ediscoverylaw.com/uploads/file/Westlaw_Document_Optiver.doc A recent case expands on the distinction between…
By: Su Mien Tee On March 19, 2013, the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations held a hearing on ECPA reform. The Department of…
By: Cindy Hu (Hsin-Yi Hu) Under the U.S. law, the so-called “border search exception” allows government to search the international travelers - including the U.S. citizens - and their…
By: Brian Harris The Department of Homeland Security has recently released a response to an ACLU challenge about its border patrol policies. The ACLU challenged the DHS’s policy of…
By: Ken Chen Researchers at MIT and Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium have conducted a 15-months analysis of mobile phone data for about 1.5 million users and they…
By: Akiva Miller The trustee in the bankruptcy proceedings of Casey Anthony, former murder suspect, has demanded to sell the rights to Casey Anthony's life story as an asset in bankruptcy:…
By: Jimmy Matteucci On March 21, two bills were introduced in the House and the Senate that would prohibit law enforcement and private investigators from utilizing GPS data or…
By Tanata Tantasathien Social networking sites such as Facebook and Google+ enable people to interact and develop relationships in a whole new way- deviated from traditional face-to-face communications and not…
By: John Sadlik Retail-theft databases, which are used by retailers for background checks on potential employees and to track employee thefts, are facing increased scrutiny from private lawyers and federal…