Do you read all of the fine print in the contract when you make an online purchase, or do you scroll to the bottom, click "I accept," and keep moving? Some companies have been inserting non-disparagement clauses in consumer contracts, also referred to as "gag" clauses, which prohibit customers from posting negative reviews of their [...]
A federal appeals court ruled in favor of Google's decade-long project of scanning millions of copyrighted books. The U.S Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit dismissed the lawsuit, Authors Guild v. Google, Inc., which accused Google of copyright infringement claiming that serving up search results for books they have scanned without permission infringes on [...]
On October 6, the European Court of Justice nullified the international data transfer protocol called "Safe Harbor," which had been in place since 2000. Safe Harbor has been use by almost 5000 companies to transfer information about EU residents to servers in the United States without breaking the more stringent EU data-protection laws, but all [...]
If you have signed up for credit monitoring, applied for a loan or credit card, or even purchased a cell phone, you are probably already familiar with Experian, one of the leading credit monitors in the world. According to their own website, they “help businesses to manage credit risk, [and] prevent fraud,” which makes it [...]
An opinion out of the Washington Supreme Court has just come to light regarding a particularly heinous case involving a website and three young women, all minors, claiming to be victims of sex trafficking. The case is still pending, but the crux of the opinion came down to a reading of the Communications Decency Act [...]
Anyone who has tried to enjoy their dinner in peace without being constantly disturbed by robocalls will be thrilled to know that a man named Aaron Foss has figured out a way to block robocalls for good. In 2013, the Federal Trade Commission held their first Robocall Challenge, which was a contest to see who [...]
Along with the recent rollout of Microsoft's newest OS, Windows 10, has been a flurry of privacy concerns due to the amount of data that Microsoft collects on each of its millions of users. As it turns out, the data collection enables those features than makes Windows 10 most convenient. According to an article in [...]
Even in this fast-moving, chaotic world we live in, each of us has an expectation of privacy. You know that when you walk into your home and close the door, what goes on within your walls is your business. You have also worked hard to build a solid reputation and achieved a satisfactory level of [...]
Among the more than 21 million current and former federal employees whose personal information was compromised during two recent data breaches at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, were federal judges and employees of the judiciary. In an article in the National Law Journal, Zoe Tillman writes about how judges and judiciary employees have been [...]
When a Vienna, Virginia man pressed "record" on his smart phone to capture any post-procedure instructions from his colonoscopy, he never expected the shock he would get when he listened to the recording on his way home. It seems as if the man, who wished to remain anonymous, captured everything that was said during the [...]
