Prosecutors claim a man on trial in connection with the killing of his wife did a Google search for the words: "neck snap break" and "hold" before she was killed. Apparently the case doesn't hinge only on the defendant's search…
Category: Information Law & Policy
Symposium on “Regulating Search?”
The Yale Information Society Project is hosting a symposium on "Regulating Search: A Symposium on Search Engines, Law, and Public Policy": Search is big business, and search functionality increasingly shapes the information society. Yet how the law treats search is…
Google Files for Behavioral Targeting Patents
Search Engine Journal reports that Google recently filed two patents dealing with ad targeting based on user search history behavior and personalization in what seems an attempt to leverage their Gmail/personal search/toolbar data, reminding us that all those free tools…
DOJ wants your ISP be its watchdog
Representing a greater online privacy threat than cookies or spyware, the DOJ is considering making Internet service providers retain records of their customers' online activities. From the CNet article: The U.S. Department of Justice is quietly shopping around the explosive…
One College Librarian Worries About ‘Atomizing’ Books…
Siva also points to this Chronicle of Higher Education interview with Michael Gorman, president-elect of the American Library Association, a critic of Google's library project. The summary:Mr. Gorman, who is dean of library services at California State University at Fresno,…
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Feds Rethinking RFID Passport
Wired News reports: "Following criticism from computer security professionals and civil libertarians about the privacy risks posed by new RFID passports the government plans to begin issuing, a State Department official said his office is reconsidering a privacy solution it…
Draft of “A Model Regime of Privacy Protection”
Privacy law expert and law professor Dan Solove (I reviewed his latest book, The Digital Person, here) and Chris Hoofnagle (of EPIC) have published the first draft of "A Model Regime of Privacy Protection." From the abstract:Privacy protection in the…
AIM Terms of Service: Waiving your right to privacy
Privacy Digest reports that an update to AOL's Instant Messenger Terms of Service includes an explicit waiver of privacy. From the subsection "Content You Post" (emphasis added):Although you or the owner of the Content retain ownership of all right, title…
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MGM v. Grokster
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has an excellent page summarizing the MGM v. Grokster case and a complete listing of all the supporting court documents and amicus briefs related to the case. From their page:EFF is defending StreamCast Networks, the company…
Google Auto-Link Function Raises Copyright/Trademark Discussion
[source: The Trademark Blog]The new Google toolbar adds links to content through a function named Auto-Link. For example, it is my understanding that if an address appears on a webpage, a program in Google's toolbar can create a link from…
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