Month: April 2017

Meng Wang Information Privacy Law Professor Ira Rubinstein April 6, 2016 Article: Rhys Dipshan, “Short Circuits: 3 Areas Where Tech Law Is Falling Behind”, Legaltech News, February 27, 2017 http://www.legaltechnews.com/id=1202780021771/Short-Circuits-3-Areas-Where-Tech-Law-Is-Falling-Behind Established technology-related laws are outdated and may become anachronistic burdens to those organizations they’re enacted to regulate.…

Caitlin Schultz Information Privacy Law Professor Ira Rubinstein April 4, 2017 Title of Blog Post: Turning the Tables: Publishing Congress’s Browser History Article: Travis M. Andrews, Protesters Raise More than $200,000 to Buy Congress’s Browsing Histories, Wash. Post (Mar. 30, 2017), https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/30/protesters-raise-more-than-200000-to-buy-congresss-web-histories-theyre-likely-in-for-a-surprise…

Hernán Garcés Information Privacy Law Professor Ira Rubinstein April 3, 2017  The highest court of the European Union rules that Member States may not impose a general obligation to retain data on providers of electronic communications services  Last December, four days before Christmas, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) made a present to the European citizens in a major privacy decision declaring that indiscriminate storing of private citizens’ communications data is illegal under EU law.  In 2015, two cases from Sweden and United Kingdom were referred to the ECJ on the general obligation imposed on telecommunication service providers to retain data relating to electronic communications.…

Yu-Jean Liu Information Privacy Law Professor Ira Rubinstein April 3, 20 Last year, Second Circuit in Microsoft Corp. v. United States 829 F.3d 197 (2d Cir. 2016) held that the government cannot compel Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to turn over data that is stored overseas.…

Qianyao Li Information Privacy Law Professor Ira Rubinstein April 3, 2017 Pennsylvania magistrate judge’s ruling requires Google to turn over data stored outside United States to FBI On Feb 3, 2017, Pennsylvania Magistrate Judge Thomas J. Rueter granted the Government’s motions to compel Google to comply with search warrants to turn over data stored outside United States.…

Jeffrey Bishop Information Privacy Law Professor Ira Rubinstein March 30, 2017 Ninth Circuit to Address Police Surveillance of Cell Site Location Information Do consumers possess a Fourth Amendment “reasonable expectation of privacy” in the location data collected by cell phone service providers, such that police must obtain a warrant supported by probable cause to access this information?…