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The Many Legal Statuses of a Like

Courts are not consistent in how they treat 'likes.'

Marlisse Silver Sweeney, Law Technology News

November 5, 2014    | 0 Comments

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Like, totally!  Uptalk aside, “likes” have acquired legal statuses, rights and obligations in this Facebook-era, according to partner Aaron Rubin and associate Cara Ann Marr Rydbeck of Morrison Foerster in this recent blog post,“What’s in a Like?”

Here are some of the ways the word has emerged in law, according to the author

Read more: http://www.lawtechnologynews.com/id=1202675594461/The-Many-Legal-Statuses-of-a-Like-#ixzz3IIlXU2Aw

TWITTER SUES U.S. GOVERNMENT

Justice limits on ability to disclose surveillance orders

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(Washington Post) Twitter, the world’s largest microblogging platform, on Tuesday sued the U.S. government, alleging that the Justice Department’s restrictions on what the company can say publicly about the government’s national security requests for user data violate the firm’s First Amendment rights.

With its lawsuit, the San Francisco-based firm is seeking to go further than five other technology companies that earlier this year reached a settlement with the government on the permissible scope of disclosure at a time of heightened concern about the scale of government surveillance.

“It’s our belief that we are entitled under the First Amendment to respond to our users’ concerns and to the statements of U.S. government officials by providing information about the scope of U.S. government surveillance — including what types of legal process have not been received,” Ben Lee, a Twitter vice president, said in a post online. “We should be free to do this in a meaningful way, rather than in broad, inexact ranges.”

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Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/twitter-sues-u-s-government/#Lg18LM8RA8m53XYO.99

Facebook Fights to Snuff Out Privacy Suit

Ross Todd, The Recorder

September 26, 2014    | 0 Comments

U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton, Northern District of California

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SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton is set this week to be the latest jurist in the Northern District of California to grapple with how decades-old federal wiretapping laws apply to today's technology. On Wednesday, Hamilton is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Facebook Inc.'s motion to dismiss a lawsuit claiming the company scanned users' messages illegally.

Plaintiffs lawyers, headed up by Michael Sobol at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, sued Facebook in December 2013 on behalf of a proposed class of the social network's users. They claimed the company illegally intercepted private messages sent via Facebook whenever users included a link to an outside website.

Read more: http://www.therecorder.com/id=1202671573174/Facebook-Fights-to-Snuff-Out-Privacy-Suit#ixzz3F05vPXAU

Snowden Says He’ll Work on High-Tech Data Privacy

Liz Gannes / Re/code

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NSA leaker Edward Snowden says he plans to work on technology to preserve personal data privacy and called on programmers to join his efforts.

Speaking via a Google Hangout at the Hackers on Planet Earth Conference in New York, Snowden repeated a call he’s made before for the tech industry to embed more security and privacy-protecting technology into everyday tech products.

But today he hinted, without providing any further details, that he’s going to be doing some of that work himself. He also wants like-minded hackers to work with him in some capacity.

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Will Supremes Apply Cell Phone Privacy to Metadata Collection?

Marjorie Cohn 

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In one of the most significant Fourth Amendment rulings ever handed down by the Supreme Court, all nine justices agreed in an opinion involving two companion cases, Riley v. California [PDF] and United States v. Wurie, that police generally need a warrant before reading data on the cell phone of an arrestee. This decision may well presage how the court will rule on the constitutionality of the National Security Agency (NSA) metadata collection program when that issue inevitably comes before it.

The Riley/Wurie opinion provides insights into how the court will decide other digital-era privacy issues. Roberts was concerned that "[a]n Internet search and browsing history, for example, can be found on an Internet-enabled phone and could reveal an individual's private interests or concerns—perhaps a search for certain symptoms of disease, coupled with frequent visits to WebMD." The Chief Justice could have been describing the NSA metadata collection program, which requires telecommunications companies to produce all of our telephone communications every day. Although the government claims it does not read the content of those communications, it does monitor the identities of the sender and recipient, and the date, time, duration, place and unique identifiers of the communication. As Roberts pointed out in the cell phone case, much can be learned from this data. Calls to a clinic that performs abortions or visits to a gay website can reveal intimate details about a person's private life. A URL, such as www.webMD.com/depression, can contain significant information, even without examining the content. Whether we access the Internet with our cell phones, or with our computers, the same privacy considerations are implicated.

http://jurist.org/forum/2014/06/marjorie-cohn-metadata-privacy.php

5 Parts Of Your Life To Keep Off Social Media [MUST READ]

There are many parts of your life to keep private, especially in the social media age. It’s important to think before you post, because you never really know who’s watching what you do.

Be smart, follow these simple tips to make sure which parts of your life to keep private and off social media, and you’ll have a social media presence you’re proud of in no time!

Here They Are:

1) LOVE LIFE:

Obviously this point comes with conditions. Talk about your love life on social media if you feel comfortable with it!

However, if you’re in a ridiculous, tumultuous relationship, maybe try to keep it off of social media. This goes back to my first point about
keeping fights off of social media. If you break up and get back together every day, and then post about it on your social media accounts, there’s a fairly good chance that 80% of your Facebook friends are rolling their eyes at you.

2) YOUR WORKOUT REGIME:

- See more at: http://akpraise.com/2014/07/02/5-parts-of-your-life-to-keep-off-social-media-must-read/#sthash.l5aoU717.dpuf

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Supreme Court bans warrantless cell phone searches

by Stephan Dinan - Washington times

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police cannot go snooping through people’s cell phones without a warrant, in a unanimous decision that amounts to a major statement in favor of privacy rights.

Police agencies had argued that searching through the data on cell phones was no different than asking someone to turn out his pockets, but the justices rejected that, saying a cell phone is more fundamental.

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The ruling amounts to a 21st century update to legal understanding of privacy rights.

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Regulation and Enterprise Social Media

Everyone's heard the saying, "opposites attract," but do they last forever? As a culture, we love rooting for hopeless relationships—whether in books, movies, or reality. The naïve pig and prolific spider in, “Charlotte’s Web.” The wealthy, obnoxious woman and struggling carpenter in the movie, “Overboard.” Oil and vinegar or dry wine and steak. We close the book and leave the movie imagining happily ever after. We enjoy contrasting tastes that complement one another. In other real-life scenarios, it’s much more complicated.

Take the connection between regulation and compliance and enterprise social media. They seemingly repel one another. But by embracing differences and making compromises, this relationship can work harmoniously. And we don’t have to dream about it.

That’s why we invited Joanna Belbey, Social Media and Compliance Specialist for Actiance, Inc., Tom Chernaik, CEO of Command Post, and DeShelia Spann, who directs employee advocacy initiatives as the Digital Marketing Manager at Eaton, to steer us in our exclusive, live webinar: Charting the Course for Enterprise Social Media in a Regulated Industry. Join us to explore enterprise social media strategy for regulated businesses on
 Tuesday, June 24, at 12 p.m. EST / 9 a.m. PST.

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Judge Allows Privacy Suit Against LinkedIn to Proceed

By Joel Rosenblatt  Jun 13, 2014 1:05 PM CT  

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LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD) must face a lawsuit claiming the company violated customers’ privacy rights for marketing purposes by accessing their external e-mail accounts and downloading their contacts’ addresses.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh in San Jose, California, means LinkedIn members who sued can continue to pursue damages for revenue the company made using their e-mail address books as they try to expand the case to include thousands of other customers. Yesterday’s ruling follows Koh’s earlier decisions in a Google Inc. (GOOGL) privacy case involving e-mail users that were sharply critical of the search engine company’s policies.

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In Google case, E.U. court says people are entitled to control their own online histories

By Craig Timberg and Michael Birnbaum, Published: May 13

Europe’s highest court on Tuesday stunned the U.S. tech industry by recognizing an expansive right to privacy that allows citizens to demand that Google delete links to embarrassing personal information — even if it’s true.

The ruling has potentially wide-ranging consequences for an industry that reaps billions of dollars in profit by collecting, sorting and redistributing data touching on the lives of people worldwide. That includes more than 500 million people in the European Union who now could unleash a flood of deletion requests that Google would have little choice but to fulfill, no matter how cumbersome.

The impact on American users was not immediately clear, though companies sometimes seek to adopt uniform policies around the world to simplify compliance. Other U.S.-based tech companies, includingFacebook, Twitter, Microsoft and Yahoo, have services that feature information about private citizens and may have to alter their practices in Europe to comply with the precedent set by the Google ruling, legal experts said. The ruling may also inspire similar legal challenges elsewhere in the world.

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