The author discusses the statement made by the EU justice commissioner, Viviane Reding, according to which Social media sites like Facebook and Google even if based in the United States must comply with the stricter online privacy and data-protection rules being planned for the European Union when they have a presence in Europe. The full […]
Conclusion of the Article: “With any emerging technology, lawyers must confront ethical issues that arise when the lawyer considers using law technology. Because data security is the lawyer’s primary concern, lawyers need to approach the issue of cloud computing carefully. ‘When going to the cloud, you’ve got to do some due diligence’, to ensure not […]
1 Int’l Data Priv. L. 81, 81 (2011) The article discusses the three major reports on privacy released almost simultaneously at the end of 2010 in the European Union and USA: “The first, published on 4 November, came from the European Commission, ‘A Comprehensive Approach on Personal Data in the European Union’. The following month […]
From the article’s summary: “The openness and the freedom of expression allowed through blogs, social networks, video sharing sites, and other tools of today’s communications technology has proven to be an unprecedented and often disruptive force in some closed societies. Governments that seek to maintain their authority and control the ideas and information their citizens […]
Vermont Bar Association Professional Responsibility Section Digest: “Vermont attorneys can utilize Software as a Service in connection with confidential client information, property, and communications, including for storage, processing, transmission, and calendaring of such materials, as long as they take reasonable precautions to protect the confidentiality of and to ensure access to these materials.” From the […]
Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct Topic: General use of technology by lawyers – reasonable precautions to avoid unauthorized access by third parties. Digest of the Committee: “Whether an attorney violates his or her duties of confidentiality and competence when using technology to transmit or store confidential client information will depend on the […]
Office of General Counsel Formal Opinion 2010-02 Topics: Retention, Storage, Ownership, Production and Destruction of Client Files. Cloud computing. Excerpts from the Opinion and comments from the editor’s of this website: Rules 1.15, 1.16 and 1.6 impose a duty of segregation, safeguarding and production upon request of client’s file (which is client’s property) but not […]
From the article: “Common Sense Media Calls for New Policy Agenda to Protect Kids and Teens’ Privacy Online – New policy white paper outlines key principles that industry should support to protect personal information of kids and teens online, including a Do Not Track Kids policy” The full text is available at: https://www.commonsensemedia…
Author describes European right to be forgotten and how it conflicts with freedom of speech. The full text is available at: http://techliberation…
Committee on Professional Ethics – Opinion No. 842 Topic: Using an outside online storage provider to store client confidential information. Digest of the Committee: “A lawyer may use an online data storage system to store and back up client confidential information provided that the lawyer takes reasonable care to ensure that confidentiality will be maintained […]