Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by William McGeveran
Last November, when powerhouse social networking site Facebook unveiled its new “Facebook Ads” programs, company founder Mark Zuckerberg declared, “Once every hundred years, media changes.” (This absurd hyperbole immediately became a punch line, as in the hilarious response from Nicholas Carr at the time.) I have criticized these programs before from a privacy […]
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Filed under: Social Networking, Digital Media, Privacy, Scholarship, Media
Posted on July 16th, 2008 by William McGeveran
I have complained before (here and here) about private entities that make public employee salary data available online. Now my local newspaper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, has jumped on the bandwagon, plopping data about the paychecks of at least 52,000 state, county, and city employees into an online database, conveniently searchable by name. […]
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Filed under: Internet & Society, Digital Media, Privacy, Intermediaries, Media
Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by William McGeveran
What better way to dive back into regular blogging than to discuss the Info/Law implications of a naked blue anthropomorphized M&M in Times Square?
A recent decision by Judge Denny Chin in New York federal court involved two billboards in Times Square advertising M&M candies. The video animation in the billboards depicted M&Ms in various […]
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Filed under: Court Decisions, Privacy, Trademarks
Posted on April 30th, 2008 by William McGeveran
Thanks to the Concurring Opinions gang for inviting me back for another visit!
I will leave it to the likes of the incredible Rick Hasen and SCOTUSBlog’s Lyle Deniston — among many, many others — to talk about the important election law elements of Monday’s Supreme Court decision on voter identification in Crawford v. Marion County […]
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Filed under: Court Decisions, Privacy, Voting, Anonymity
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by William McGeveran
The New Jersey Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision on Monday ruling that the state’s constitution goes further than the United States Constitution by requiring a warrant before the government can obtain subscriber information from an information service provider (such as linking a name to an IP address). Under controlling Fourth Amendment precedent, individuals […]
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Filed under: Minnesota, Court Decisions, Internet & Society, ISP, Intermediaries, Privacy, Anonymity
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by William McGeveran
Back in September 2006 I expressed skepticism about the posting of all congressional staff salaries by a web site called LegiStorm. At the time I said:
It might be different if this were the members of Congress themselves (whose salaries are set by statute) or perhaps their most senior aides. Can it really matter to […]
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Filed under: Internet & Society, Digital Media, Privacy, Voting, Media
Posted on February 29th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Works in more places… I suppose the fake place name would be NSFrancisPying. (Hat tip to an anonymous friend!)
The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of the Sixth Circuit’s ruling that the plaintiffs in the NSA suit here in Michigan lacked standing. The hard part, of course, is it’s extremely difficult to prove standing […]
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Filed under: Internet & Society, Court Decisions, NSA, ISP, national security, Intermediaries, Filtering, Privacy, international
Posted on January 30th, 2008 by William McGeveran
A funny piece at Slate rants about the “security” questions increasingly asked by financial institutions in a doomed attempt to foil hackers and phishers. It links to this funnier rant by David Weinberger. (I’ve also complained about the privacy concerns related to this before, but that’s not so funny). As Slate sums […]
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Filed under: Encryption, Security, Privacy, Intermediaries, Anonymity
Posted on January 26th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
I’ve moved part of this post from my earlier post on the ongoing Vermont divorce saga. This post has two parts: analysis of Judge Devine’s decision on the restraining order, and analysis of how strong a fair use defense Krasnansky could mount for his use of excerpts from Garrido’s journal / diary.
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Filed under: Internet & Society, Court Decisions, Privacy, Copyright, Media, Intermediaries, Blogging
Posted on January 18th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
8 April 2008: The Berkman Center’s Citizen Media Law Project has kindly posted a description of this dispute.
18 January 2008: Updated with response from Susan M. Ellwood, Ms. Garrido’s lawyer
I’ve been fascinated by Garrido v. Krasnansky, the Vermont divorce case written up in the New York Times. It’s a typically ugly divorce - adultery, recrimination, […]
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Filed under: Internet & Society, Court Decisions, Privacy, Copyright, Media, Blogging