As reported in today’s Washington Post, a Maryland motorcyclist who used his helmet-mounted video camera to record the state trooper who stopped him and ticketed him for speeding, and then posted the video on YouTube, now…
In a recent federal district court ruling noted and summarized by the always-astute privacy team at law firm Hunton & Williams, an individual user of Facebook, MySpace, and other less well known online communities, who is…
In a move ostensibly intended to aid anti-terrorism efforts, Senators Charles Schumer and John Cornyn issued a joint press release two weeks ago announcing proposed legislation that would essentially end the anonymity of pre-paid cell phones…
A recent ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest in a series of cases where individuals whose personal information was involved in a data breach were unable to successfully pursuit causes of…
Reports of potential breaches of patient privacy at Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, California have garnered the HIPAA-related attention you would expect, but are also raising questions about the availability and use of social networking sites…
As Google continues to accede to demands from several European countries and U.S. courts to turn over copies of data it collected over unsecured wireless networks during its Street View program operations, plaintiffs in a class…
While investigations on many aspects of Google’s wireless data collection practices are ongoing in the U.S. and many other European countries (most recently including the Czech Republic), the first major legal action against the company has…
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