In something of a departure from a trend in some European countries towards considering IP addresses to be personally identifiable information, a French appeals court last week determined that an IP address could not be used…
The recent ruling in an Italian court against three Google executives finding them criminally liable for violated Italian privacy law by allowing a video to be posted on YouTube predecessor Google Video has been widely criticized…
With a lawsuit filed in federal court last week , school officials in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania are on the defensive over the alleged illegal use of remotely activated webcams in laptop computers issued to students. It…
Now that the House nearly unanimously passed its Cybersecurity Enhancement Act earlier this month, some attention has turned to the plethora of similar draft legislation in the Senate with speculation over which of the bills is…
In a story first reported by the Roanoke Times and picked up by the Washington Post in today’s edition, Virginia Tech’s student newspaper is at odds with the University Commission on Student Affairs over its practice…
With the rapidly approaching March 1 deadline when Massachusetts’ new personal data protection law (201 CMR 17) finally goes into effect, one of many requirements facing organizations covered by the law is the need to encrypt…
In a post earlier this week, we noted that generally speaking, anyone in the U.S. wanting to take legal action over the privacy practices of social networking sites like Facebook would have to do so within…
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