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Facebook Buys Instagram. In a surprise announcement, Facebook has acquired mobile photo service Instagram for $1 billion. According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, “This is an important milestone for Facebook because it’s the first time we’ve ever acquired a product and company with so many users. We don’t plan on doing many more of these, if any at all.” Facebook also stated that the two services would remain [...]
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Facebook Buys Instagram. In a surprise announcement, Facebook has acquired mobile photo service Instagram for $1 billion. According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, “This is an important milestone for Facebook because it’s the first time we’ve ever acquired a product and company with so many users. We don’t plan on doing many more of these, if any at all.” Facebook also stated that the two services would remain [...]
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India’s BBM Tracking System In The Works. Indian security agencies have said that a system to help the government monitor BBM activity on RIM’s BlackBerrys will be up and running soon. For now, authorities have agreed on a protocol for law enforcement to follow before they get approval and access to a user’s data, if they suspect the devices were being used for criminal activity. –NS
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Emily Ward, vice president and deputy general counsel for patents at eBay looks for outside counsel who are not just smart and strategic, but also pleasant to work with.
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Sarah Feingold, GC for online hand-crafted goods marketplace Etsy, makes fine jewelry and is a go-to authority for the Etsy artist community’s IP questions. She shares her insights.
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The third-generation release of Best Authority, software for making tables of authority in Microsoft Word, is delayed until summer 2012, manufacturer Levit & James said.
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Every email to your child. Every status update for your friends. Every message to your mistress.
The U.K. government is preparing proposals for a nationwide electronic surveillance network that could potentially keep track of every message sent by any Brit to anyone at any time, an industry official briefed on the government’s moves said Sunday.
Plans for a massive government database of the country’s phone and email traffic were abandoned in 2008 following a public outcry. But James Blessing of [...]
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The Jones case is back in Washington, D.C., federal district court, and it now turns out that the authorities may not need the GPS data to try to link Jones to the drug house.
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In February 2011, I wrote a post highlighting the relationship between social media and legal ethics. More than a year later, there might finally be some judicial guidance coming in a particularly fuzzy area. A three-judge panel in the Third District Court of Appeals is about to decide whether a jury foreman who posted Facebook status updates about the trial can be forced to turn over his social media data for the months during which the trial took [...]
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A Third Circuit Court of Appeals panel, including the Hon. Thomas I. Vanaskie, one of the leading judicial authorities in e-discovery, has spoken — e-discovery-related cost recovery pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1920 has limits; the costs must bear a reasonable connection to duplication of materials in the traditional sense to be recoverable by a prevailing party. As the first United States Court of Appeals decision to directly address this closely watched issue, this opinion may disarm a potentially [...]
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Google made some changes to its privacy policy last month, and from the outrage one would think they’d announced they were conducting warrantless wiretaps.
The changes have drawn the attention of state attorneys general, French privacy regulators — who submitted a detailed questionnaire for Google to fill out — and, just yesterday, a private class action suit.
All because Google basically decided to stop collecting information from its sites (search, Gmail, YouTube, and so on) separately and start consolidating it. [...]
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Race Tires Amer., Inc. v. Hoosier Racing Tire, Corp., — F.3d —, 2012 WL 887593 (3d Cir. Mar. 16, 2012)
On appeal, the Third Circuit vacated the District Court’s approval of taxable costs related to electronic discovery and remanded with instruction to re-tax in accordance with this opinion. Specifically, the court concluded that the relevant vendors’ charges “would not qualify as fees for ‘exemplification’” and that “of the numerous services the vendors performed, only the scanning of hard copy [...]
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Bloggers aiming to subject enemies to flaming rhetoric should take note of three six-figure verdicts from Georgia courts in the past 15 months for plaintiffs who said they were defamed online.
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Bot Vid: Robo Squirrel
Working with wild rattlesnakes is not exactly the safest or simplest job in the world. It’s harder to study them in a realistic enviroment than friendlier, less fang-y animals…like squirrels. Oddly enough, Northern Pacific rattlesnakes actually do like squirrels (for lunch). That’s why a research team recently built a robot squirrel that, while crude-looking to human eyes, is so realistic, down to emitting the right kind of sounds and flicking its tail in ways that [...]
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Apps for popular social networking sites and games including Facebook, Twitter, Yelp and possibly Angry Birds are accessing confidential personal address book data without user permission, contends a federal suit filed in Austin, Texas, this week. The suit, which was filed in federal district court in Travis County, seeks an injunction barring tech firms from taking confidential data without permission and damages, the American-Statesman reports. It asserts claims including invasion of privacy; unjust enrichment; intentional interception, disclosure or [...]
