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23 Dec 2009, 6:29 am
As indicated by my prior posts, You've Got Email, But Is It Private At Work? and Is Einstein Reading Your Email for the Government?, the questions and arguments about privacy and email are heating up. A recent case in point covered by the ABA Journal in Martha Neal's article, Prosecutor’s E-Mail Sent to His Lawyer on a Work Account is Privileged, Court Says, presents an interesting case. Here Neal reports,
A federal prosecutor's e-mail to his own lawyer is privileged, even though he sent it… [read post]
23 Apr 2010, 11:20 am
At the recent IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington, D.C., many hot topics were addressed:
Privacy by Design, Behavioral Advertising, the new EU Cookie Consent Law, the Smart Power Grid, the Cloud, Web 2.0, the new EU Model Clause Agreements, Controllers, Processors and Sub-Processors, the recent Google convictions, to name just a few.
I interviewed a few prominent privacy professionals, attending and/or presenting at the summit on some of the important issues of the day.
In this video, I… [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 1:35 pm
If you’ve missed this development of late, the word on the street is that prospective employers are not just using Google to search for whatever may be available on the Internet — they are asking applicants to provide their Facebook passwords to allow the prospective employer to peruse their Facebook page.
Our colleagues over at the Mintz Employment Matters blog have written about this and the potential risks. Check it out before you interview that next candidate.
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6 Oct 2011, 2:57 pm
The confidentiality between an attorney and her client is one of the essential features of the client-attorney relationship. The explosion of digital communications – especially email and text messages – has created situations that may undermine attorney-client privilege. Now the American Bar Association has issued a formal opinion stating that attorneys must warn clients that [...] [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 3:31 pm
Yesterday, I got the opportunity to speak with Colin O'Keefe of LXBN TV on the subject of the Dharun Ravi/Rutgers webcam spying case. In our brief interview, I explain why this case received the level of attention that it did, what social media's role was in the proceedings and what we can learn from the case. You can read my post from Friday when the jury handed down the guilty verdict. [read post]
23 Aug 2012, 6:03 pm
On August 15, Philippine President Benigno Aquino III signed into law the Data Privacy Act of 2012, formally titled “An Act Protecting Individual Personal Information in Information and Communications Systems in the Government and the Private Sector, Creating for this Purpose a National Privacy Commission, and for Other Purposes”. The Act is modeled after the EU Data Protection Directive and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Privacy Framework.
The Act applies to “the processing… [read post]
12 Dec 2011, 1:52 pm
The Stanford Law Review Online has just published a piece by M. Ryan Calo discussing the privacy implications of drone use within the United States. In The Drone as Privacy Catalyst, Calo argues that domestic use of drones for surveillance will go forward largely unimpeded by current privacy law, but that the “visceral jolt” caused by witnessing these drones hovering above our cities might serve as a catalyst and finally “drag privacy law into the twenty-first century.”
Calo writes:
In… [read post]
19 Feb 2013, 9:37 am
On February 15, Chris Olsen of the FTC’s Division of Privacy and Identity Protection spoke at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) stakeholders’ meeting in Washington, D.C. to address its recently released Mobile Privacy Disclosures Guidance.
For a full list of the meeting's highlights, please read the latest post on our sister blog, Global Regulatory Enforcement Law Blog.
Our attorneys will be monitoring the situation closely and will keep you informed… [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 6:15 am
On February 13, 2012, Paris Office partner Winston Maxwell published in the French trade journal Edition Multimedi@. His article examines the European Commission's proposed regulation on data protection, focusing on:
the Commission's choice of a Regulation as opposed to a Directive,
the new obligations that would be imposed on companies including
the accountability principle;
Privacy by Design; and
the obligation to conduct privacy impact assessments… [read post]
19 Feb 2013, 9:37 am
On February 15, Chris Olsen of the FTC’s Division of Privacy and Identity Protection spoke at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) stakeholders’ meeting in Washington, D.C. to address its recently released Mobile Privacy Disclosures Guidance.
For a full list of the meeting's highlights, please read the latest post on our sister blog, Global Regulatory Enforcement Law Blog.
Our attorneys will be monitoring the situation closely and will keep you informed… [read post]
5 Aug 2010, 9:29 am
Dr. Guillaume Aucher of the University of Luxembourg Faculty of Sciences, Technology and Communication, Professor Dr. Guido Boella of Università degli Studi di Torino Dipartimento di Informatica , and Professor Dr. Leon van der Torre of the University of Luxembourg Faculty of Sciences, Technology and Communication, have published Privacy Policies with Modal Logic: The Dynamic Turn, in DEON 2010: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Deontic Logic in Computer Science, 7-9 July 2010,… [read post]
23 Aug 2012, 6:03 pm
On August 15, Philippine President Benigno Aquino III signed into law the Data Privacy Act of 2012, formally titled “An Act Protecting Individual Personal Information in Information and Communications Systems in the Government and the Private Sector, Creating for this Purpose a National Privacy Commission, and for Other Purposes”. The Act is modeled after the EU Data Protection Directive and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Privacy Framework.
The Act applies to… [read post]
4 Feb 2010, 12:49 pm
Pursuant to a public complaint, on January 27, 2010, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada announced a new investigation into Facebook. The investigation concerns the social networking site’s introduction of a tool that required its users to review their privacy settings in December 2009. According to the complaint, Facebook’s new default settings allegedly made some users’ information more accessible than previously had been the case. Elizabeth Denham, the Assistant Privacy Commissioner,… [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 6:00 am
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC), and the Offices of the Information and Privacy Commissioners (OIPCs) of Alberta and British Columbia have developed a guide titled Getting Accountability Right with a Privacy Management Program. The guide aims to help organizations implement an effective privacy management program that meets private-sector privacy legislation and to provide consistent direction on what it means to be an accountable organization when dealing with individuals’… [read post]
29 Oct 2010, 1:01 pm
According to a senior health information technology and privacy specialist at HHS Office for Civil Right (OCR), regulations finalizing the July 14, 2010, proposed rule implementing many of the HITECH Act's privacy, security, and enforcement requirements could be published by the end of 2010 or in early 2011. Additionally, OCR, developing a HITECH Act required "periodic audit" plan, which will be targeted to ensure that covered entities and business associates comply with the requirements of … [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 7:23 pm
Jeff Jarvis has this humorous piece about the FTC vs. Santa:
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz today announced a record fine against Santa Claus for violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
“Mr. Claus has flagrantly violated children’s privacy, collecting their consumer preferences for toys and also tracking their behavior so as to judge and maintain a data base of naughtiness and niceness,” Leibowitz said. “Worse, he has tied this data to personally… [read post]
9 Apr 2013, 1:00 pm
Work commitments have prevented me from posting over the past week, but I wanted to take the opportunity to point out that there have been some notable developments in the privacy class action area over the past week. Judy Selby covered these developments in a recent blog post for the BakerHostetler Class Action Defense and Data Privacy Monitor blogs. Selby’s post, titled Hannaford v. comScore – Up and Down Results for Privacy Class Action Defendants, compares… [read post]
25 Apr 2013, 10:39 am
By Elizabeth Dunning Effective May 14, 2013, Utah employers may not request employees or applicants to disclose information related to their personal Internet accounts. The Internet Employment Privacy Act(IEPA), recently signed into law by Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert, prohibits employers from asking an employee or applicant to reveal a username or password that allows access to the individual’s personal Internet account. In addition, employers may not penalize or discriminate against an employee… [read post]
17 Apr 2010, 7:49 am
People believe that privacy violations should be punished — and quite stringently. There are interesting survey results in a new report by Chris Hoofnagle, Jennifer King, Su Li, and Joseph Turow, How Different are Young Adults from Older Adults When it Comes to Information Privacy Attitudes and Policies?
The report focuses primarily on comparing the attitudes of the young with older people and concluding that there isn’t much of a divergence. I blogged about it here.
There is other data… [read post]
21 Jul 2010, 2:03 pm
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published on July 14, 2010, a voluminous Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), containing dozens of proposed amendments to three sets of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) regulations: the Privacy Rule; the Security Rule; and the Enforcement Rule. The proposed amendments are directed principally at implementing the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act), which amended… [read post]