A Criminal Defense Attorney’s take and analysis on how the recent US Supreme Court Decision on 4th Amendment Search and Seizure law affects how Defense Attorneys will challenge illegal searches from now on. The decision provides confirmation that there are 2 separate legal theories for challenging an illegal search: 1) reasonable expectations of privacy and 2) common law trespass. Continue reading
A Criminal Defense Attorney’s take and analysis on how the recent US Supreme Court Decision on 4th Amendment Search and Seizure law affects how Defense Attorneys will challenge illegal searches from now on. The decision provides confirmation that there are 2 separate legal theories for challenging an illegal search: 1) reasonable expectations of privacy and 2) common law trespass. Continue reading
From the press release: In the 2011 Website Edition of its Privacy Index, TRUSTe analyzed the privacy policies of the top 100 U.S. websites (as ranked by Alexa Sept. 2011) to evaluate privacy practices by measuring key policy attributes, as…
EDUCAUSE has released Data Privacy Legislation: An Analysis of the Current Legislative Landscape and the Implications for Higher Education. 18 bills have been introduced in Congress on data privacy. These privacy bills generally fall into three distinct areas: comprehensive online…
Two stories related to computer privacy caught my attention. One is that law enforcement agencies are increasing the amount of warrants sent to Facebook to gather data on individuals. That law enforcement agents are interested in Facebook user details is…
“Daniel Solove is one of America’s leading experts on privacy law. In this engaging book, he explains why privacy is everyone concern; it is a crucial social value that must be integrated into our national security policy rather than simply…
Are Online Privacy Concerns Just "Old People Issues"?
LinkedIn founder, Reid Hoffman thinks so: “all these concerns about privacy tend to be old people issues.” See the video of his comments from the 2010 Davos Conference along with commentary here. [JH]
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