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Have you ever regretted sending an email? Two Harvard law students developed a free Pluto Mail service, currently in a beta stage, that allows users to reverse the sending. Read more at http://www.abajournal…   Follow us on& Like us on    

In April 2014, the Federation of State Medical Boards approved a Model Policy for the Appropriate Use of Telemedicine Technologies in the Practice of Medicine. The model telehealth policy aims at “guiding the development of model guidelines for use by state medical boards in evaluating the appropriateness of care as related to the use of telemedicine, […]

On April 29, 2014, during the oral argument of Riley v. California (case in which the Supreme Court was reviewing the constitutionality of warrantless cell phone searches by law enforcement officers during an arrest), the issue of social media privacy settings was briefly (and wrongly) discussed. Justice Roberts is reported to have said that there […]

The ABA published an interesting article on Ravel (https://www.ravellaw.com/), a new way to do legal research. The main idea is a different presentation of the search results: rather than displaying only a list of text entries, Ravel draws a visual map of the results, “showing the relationships among cases and their relative importance to each […]

On April 7, 2014 a federal court held that FTC has the authority to bring unfair trade practice claims under the FTC Act for exposing consumers’ data to a security breach and need not issue formal regulations before. In the last ten years the FTC has brought many actions against entities for failing to safeguard […]

In January 2014 the Federal Trade Agency informed that twelve U.S. businesses agreed to settle after they falsely claimed to be abiding by the international privacy framework known as the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor. The U.S.-EU Safe Harbor enables U.S. companies to transfer consumer data between the United States and the European Union, in compliance with […]

The ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility recently issued an opinion addressing lawyers’ review of jurors’ internet presence distinguishing: (i) a “passive lawyer review” (i.e., a juror’s webpage is publicly available and the juror is unaware of lawyer’s review); (ii) an “active lawyer review” (i.e., the lawyer actually requests access to the juror’s […]

On May 13, 2014, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) — Case C 131-12, issued a preliminary ruling (i.e. an interpretation decision) on referral of the Spanish Audiencia Nacional (National High Court). The ECJ found that a search engine’s retrieval […]

The EU Parliament voted a “telecom package” legislation barring internet access providers from blocking specific services for economic reasons and to end mobile phone roaming fees beginning of 2016. If this legislation is approved by the EU Council operators will be prohibited from blocking or slowing down selected services (e.g., free calling services like Skype) […]

Author published a brief study analyzing law firms’ use of social media. The study is part of a broader LMA panel discussion and can be found at this link http://kevin.lexblog…   Follow us on& Like us on