With the advent of social media, people have taken their personal lives online. With photos, wall posts, “likes,” and friend requests, a plethora of information detailing the innermost thoughts of a person are available with just a username and password.…
The past year has shown that for many female celebrities, privacy in their personal photos and videos might be one of the few luxuries that they cannot afford. In late August of last year, hundreds of nude images of alleged…
Samsung has come under fire more than once in recent weeks. In one incident, owners of its Smart TVs have been complaining that Samsung is inserting Pepsi ads during the playback of their own locally stored movies. Samsung initially tried…
“Better safe than sorry right. Channel 13 news was just talking about this change in Facebook’s privacy policy. Better safe than sorry. As of January 3rd, 2015 at 11:43am Easter standard time. I do not give Facebook or any entities…
Recently, it seems almost every week there is a new data breach at a particularly large retailer. If you’ve ever used a credit card at the store, a slight panic sets in that your information could have been stolen. You…
When you click “I agree” on a website’s privacy policy, are you really consenting to all the terms? Is that thick block of small-font text that makes up most companies’ privacy policies sufficient to give you notice of just…
Summary of Ryan Harkins’s presentation in a panel on “Disclosure and Notice Practices in Private Data Collection” at Data Privacy & Transparency in Private and Government Data, April 4, 2014 at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. In addition to making visiting more…
Summary of Lorrie Cranor’s presentation in a panel on “Disclosure and Notice Practices in Private Data Collection” at Data Privacy & Transparency in Private and Government Data, April 4, 2014 at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Privacy policies are everywhere. Nearly every…
Comments from a viewer at the Data Privacy & Transparency in Private and Government Data, April 4, 2014 at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. In June of last year, Edward Snowden revealed to the public the lengths the NSA will go…
Author: Ryan Brewer, J.D Candidate, Class of 2014, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law The Cardozo IP & Information Law Program kicked off its fall 2012 IP Speaker Series with a presentation by Professor Peter Swire. Professor Swire teaches at…
Author: Agatha M. Cole, Staff Editor, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal In August of 2005, a Florida investigator on the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) taskforce—a national network of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies dedicated to preventing…
