American Constitution Society (June 2014) The author discusses Riley v. California and several other previous cases in order to analyze the warrant requirement for searches of cell phones. The full text is available at https://www.acslaw.org…
Facebook has appealed a September 17, 2013 New York County trial court sealed order containing bulk search warrants directing Facebook to produce virtually all records and communications of 381 Facebook accounts. The warrants also included provisions barring Facebook from informing users of the warrants. Facebook unsuccessfully moved to quash the bulk warrants as overly broad […]
Larry Page, Google’s chief executive, warned ECJ’s ” ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling risks empowering repressive governments and their control of the internet”. More information at http://www.theguardian… Follow us on& Like us on
Viviane Reding referenced about the Justice Council’s progress on the data protection reform. According to her press release, the Justice Council agreed on two pillars of the reform: 1) rules governing data transfer to third countries (which will be possible either when the Commission finds that a third country is “adequate” in terms of data […]
The Supreme Court of Canada said anonymity is vital to personal privacy in the digital era. The Court held inter alia that a judge’s permission is needed before asking Internet providers for basic information that would identify their customers. The case deals with a suspected child pornographer in a 2007 Saskatchewan investigation. More information at […]
According to the decision: “47 U.S.C.S. § 230 generally immunizes internet service providers from liability for third-party content wherever such liability depends on characterizing the provider as a “publisher or speaker” of objectionable material”. Plaintiff realtor sued defendants, a competitor, the competitor’s principal, and the principal’s assistant, for defamation and unfair competition by disparagement. The […]
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) – one of the decentralized agencies of the European Union – issued its 2013 Report Fundamental rights: challenges and achievements in 2013 – Annual report 2013. Section 3 deals with Data Protection (Information Society, Respect for Private Life and Data Protection) and in particular with the following: – Mass surveillance revelations spark […]
Article 29 privacy group met on June 4, 2014 to decide whether a special taskforce of European privacy overseers should monitor Google’s attempts to respond to citizens’ requests to be forgotten. They decided it should. The taskforce should analyze how European regulators should react in case of complaint of citizens — which might be likely […]
Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 48, 2014 Abstract from the article: “This article scrutinizes invasive cyber business practices and advocates passage of the proposed European Union right to erasure. The proposed regulation would prevent the indefinite storage and trade in electronic data, placing limits on the duration and purpose for which businesses could retain it. […]
From the document: “In its ruling of 13 May 20141 the EU Court said: a) On the Territoriality of EU rules: Even if the physical server of a company processing data is located outside Europe, EU rules apply to search engine operators if they have a branch or a subsidiary in a Member State which […]