WPIX11 consults Tim Bukher on NSA collection of Verizon metadata
Tim Bukher, an Internet lawyer who deals with cases involving metadata, says, ”As is the case with any advance in technology, and this has always been the case, legislation lags far behind.” … Fast...
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Facebook shadow profiles allegedly the cause of recent privacy bug
Friday night six million Facebook users, including myself, received an email from Facebook apologizing that a bug “allowed someone you already know outside of Facebook to see your email address or...
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Hulu Users Try to Maintain Class Action Despite Supposed Lack of Injury
Back in October Hulu attempted to dismiss the class action brought against it by users whose information was allegedly shared with third-party advertisers by arguing that the Video Privacy Protection...
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ISPs May Be Tracking User Behavior
Social media websites violating user privacy seem to be an issue of an age long post (Web 2.0?), the current trend — aside from the NSA’s recent antics — is tracking user behavior online by the users’...
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Is A Website URL Meta Data Or Content For Wiretap Purposes?
A class of consumers has asked a federal appeals court to revive a class action against Google and other digital groups for allegedly violating the federal Wiretap Act when they circumvented Safari...
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New Tool That Will Reconcile Global Privacy Principals
The US. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), together with regulators from the European Union and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, have announced a new tool that will help reconcile cross-border...
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New FTC And EEOC Guidance Confirms That Shoulder Surfing Is Dangerous For...
For years I have been harping that businesses accessing employee social media accounts is a bad idea. We have seen federal courts allow privacy violation lawsuits for this behavior while some states...
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Privacy Law: Microsoft’s Cortana Won’t Talk To Kids
In an interesting cross-section between privacy law and virtual reality, it seems that Cortana (Microsoft’s equivalent to Apple’s Siri) won’t talk to kids. According to Gamespot: Like Apple’s Siri on...
View ArticleTim Bukher and Client Signal360 Co-Author Whitepaper on Privacy
I was flattered to have one of my clients, Signal360, ask me to co-author a whitepaper on privacy issues in proximity marketing. The paper, “User Privacy and Beacons: Proximity Marketing and Privacy, A...
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How to ensure compliance with the new HIPAA rule updates
So we all dread the frustrating inefficiency of our healthcare system. Thankfully, there has been a recent increase in the number of healthcare-based software applications and other tech-based support...
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