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Cecilia Coelho Romero Information Privacy Law Professor Ira Rubinstein April 12, 2017 The end of unrestrained bulk metadata collection after Snowden’s revelations The USA Patriot Act enacted in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks allowed through its Section 215 the bulk metadata collection, which generated much debate in American society about the proper balance between national security and civil liberties.…

Jian Wu Information Privacy Law Professor Ira Rubinstein April 11, 2017 Title of Blog Post: China’s Cybersecurity Law Goes into Effect June 1, 2017 Article: Katherine W. Keally, China’s Cybersecurity Law Goes into Effect June 1, 2017—Are You Ready?, NACD Online (March 21, 2017), https://blog.nacdonline.org/2017/03/chinas-cybersecurity-law-goes-into-effect-june-1-2017-are-you-ready/ Blog Text: The Cybersecurity Law of China, promulgated by the National Congress Standing Committee of China, will become effective on June 1, 2017.…

Caroline Alewaerts Information Privacy Law Professor Ira Rubinstein April 10, 2017 Uncertain Future of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Reduced to only one member since the beginning of the year, many news reports warn that the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) may have become a dead shell, and will remain so unless decisions are made to replenish it.…

Alessandro Cocco Information Privacy Law Professor Ira Rubinstein April 8, 2017 The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (“FISA”) governs foreign intelligence, and introduces a legal regime different from the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (“ECPA”, the statute governing surveillance for domestic law enforcement purposes).…

by Eli Siems The NY Times reports on an ongoing struggle between banks and tech companies over the fate of your financial data. On Monday, Amazon.com launched its new Amazon Cash service, allowing customers to add paper cash to an Amazon account at a physical retail location.…

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Established technology-related laws are outdated and may become anachronistic burdens to those organizations they’re enacted to regulate.…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.  …

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.…