Source: http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/E-discoveryLawAlert/~3/LTe82AhdUuM/
On March 2, 2012, we reported on Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck’s February 24, 2012 decision in Monique Da Silva Moore, et al., v. Publicis Groupe & MSL Group, Civ. No. 11-1279 (ALC)(AJP) (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 24, 2012), wherein Judge Peck issued the first judicial opinion approving the use of predictive coding "in appropriate cases." You can read that blog post here. On April 25, 2012, District Judge Andrew L. Carter, Jr. rejected plaintiffs’ bid to overturn that decision, and [...]
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Following recently passed legislation to allow 30,000 drones to operate over the U.S. by 2020, a newly discovered Air Force document posted by Steve Watson at InfoWars has some interesting implications (Via Drudge Report).
The USAF intelligence brief says that if any of those drones should accidentally capture footage of Americans, the data can be stored for three months to be scrutinized by the Pentagon.
From InfoWars:
“The instruction, dated April 23, admits that the Air Force cannot legally conduct “nonconsensual surveillance” on [...]
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Following recently passed legislation to allow 30,000 drones to operate over the U.S. by 2020, a newly discovered Air Force document posted by Steve Watson at InfoWars has some interesting implications (Via Drudge Report).
The USAF intelligence brief says that if any of those drones should accidentally capture footage of Americans, the data can be stored for three months to be scrutinized by the Pentagon.
From InfoWars:
“The instruction, dated April 23, admits that the Air Force cannot legally conduct “nonconsensual surveillance” on [...]
Source: http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1202552878171
The CLECenter.com website, an online provider of CLE programs, relaunched its website with new navigation and search facilities and an updated media player.
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What happens to your Facebook account when you die? Or your Twitter? Who gets the rights to the thousands of songs in your iTunes library? Or access to your email? These are questions the U.S. government is hoping Americans will begin to consider, and Uncle Sam is now suggesting that every web-savvy citizen create a “social media will” to lay out what exactly your loved ones ought to do with your online accounts in the event of your [...]
Source: http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/WorkplacePrivacyCounsel/~3/CfjdcenTreQ/
Philip Gordon, Chair of Littler Mendelson’s Privacy and Data Protection Practice Group Chair and a frequent contributor to this blog, was recently interviewed by The Lexblog Network about Maryland’s recently-enacted Facebook password law and what it accomplishes.
Video courtesy of The Lexblog Network
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California is taking active steps to protect consumers’ private data from dissemination to third parties, explain Kabateck Brown Kellner
attorneys Richard L. Kellner and Anastasia Mazzella.
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Well here it is again, the favorite (without a U) Techdirt post of the week, brought to you by the one and only me, (and not U), G Thompson from that land down under, Australia, where the brave fear to tread, mainly because we make U appear in color, flavor, and favor on pain of eating Vegemite.
All through this week there was a heap of articles about that new acronym of geek protesters everywhere in the [...]
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Occupy Wall Street websites love adding Google, Facebook, and Twitter buttons–which could give law enforcement a handy back door to track users’ actions–and identities.
Big Data is everywhere. Occupy Wall Street protesters, however, are dealing with a special challenge: Online marketers and analytics firms tracing the minutiae of their lives–including their email contacts and physical location–and possibly passing the information on to law enforcement.
According to technology researcher Tim Libert, protesters affiliated with the Occupy movement have unintentionally aided [...]
Source: http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1202549427690
A federal judge is considering sanctioning prosecutors after finding a federal agent withheld information from the defense about using GPS tracking to investigate the suspected leader of an Iowa drug ring.
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U.S. District Judge William Alsup, of California’s Northern District, has taken the seemingly unprecedented step of bringing in a lawyer to represent a court-appointed expert in the Google/Oracle trial.
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CorpCounsel.com spoke with three experts about what the DOJ’s lawsuit against Apple and five e-book publishers may mean for long-term antitrust enforcement and the digital marketplace.
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Doreen S. Davis and Ann Marie Painter, of Morgan Lewis, review categories of social media policies that often trigger National Labor Relations Act concerns, and how to address them.
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An en banc panel construed the CFAA narrowly in a 9-2 ruling, saying the anti-hacking law is not a tool to criminalize anyone who violates employer computer policies or a website’s terms of service.
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The Texas judiciary made several big strides in electronic filing of court documents last fiscal year, says Casey Kennedy, director of information services for the Texas Office of Court Administration.
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