Europe is facing the challenges of implementing the European Court of Justice’s recent decision in the Costeja case, C-131/12 and its “right to be forgotten”. Following the decision, search engines were submerged by requests for removal (see article) and were left with the difficult task of balancing the public right to information and the private […]
FTC accused online review site Yelp, Inc., and mobile app developer TinyCo, Inc to have improperly collected children’s information in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. The companies agreed to settle. Yelp will pay a $450,000 civil penalty, while TinyCo will pay a $300,000 civil penalty. Related FTC’s press release here Read more about […]
Tags: DATA PROTECTION, US PRIVACY
Judicial Discipline & Disability Comm’n v. Maggio,2014 Ark. 366,2014 Ark. LEXIS 468(Ark.2014) Judge Mike Maggio admittedly blogged and commented under the pseudonym of “geauxjudge” in public electronic forum “www.tigerdroppings.com”. Among the other posts, he also commented on a confidential adoption of a child by a Hollywood star. On september 11, 2014, the Supreme Court of Arkansas accepted […]
Apple published a new privacy policy. The company reworked its encryption in a way that prevents anyone but the device’s owner to access the data stored on smartphones, tablets or computers. “Apple cannot bypass your passcode and therefore cannot access this data. So it’s not technically feasible for us to respond to government warrants for the […]
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On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 at 12:30PM in NYC, at LFS (11 Broadway, Conference Room A) Nathan M. Crystal will speak about ethical use of social media, discussing in particular the recent NYSBA’s recent guidelines on the ethical use of social media. Topics covered will include: Guidelines regarding social media and attorney advertising Restrictions on providing legal advice through […]
In Melian Labs Inc. v. Triology LLC, case number 4:2013cv04791, a trademark infringement action, plaintiff objected to defendant’s non responsive responses to some of its requests for production. The order of the court (NDCA) is interesting (at least) under two perspectives. First, the order is interesting for the part in which it deals with the […]
Tags: DATA PROTECTION, E-DISCOVERY, LAWYERS' USE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS, US PRIVACY
In this case Defendants filed a Motion to Compel Plaintiff to Respond to Defendant’s Discovery Requests. Defendant had requested Plaintiff to produce information from her Facebook account. Plaintiffs resisted the motion, arguing that “her Facebook account is unlikely to include relevant information, because, as she stated in her deposition, she rarely used the account, and when […]
In the matter of Jared E. Stolz an attorney at law, Docket No. DRB 13-331 (2014) The ethics charges against Attorney arose out of his representation of a defendant in a lawsuit. Throughout the course of the litigation there was a great deal of animosity between counsel. In response to the opposing counsel’s inquiries and […]
An Irish judge has issued an order approving notice of proceedings via LinkedIn in a liquidation of entity where the liquidator could not locate and serve one of the persons connected with liquidating entity in a more traditional way. More here In 2012, another Irish judge approved service via Facebook (read more here) As we recently reported, […]
Merchants may soon be able to accept payment in bitcoin through Paypal. The system should operate via Braintree platform (Braintree was bought last here by Ebay – which also owns Paypal – for $800 million) Read more at http://www.bloomberg… Follow us on& Like us on