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Tamara Thompson's List: Internet Privacy and Security
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May 17, 09
If you're one of the growing number of people who are using more and more products in Google's ever-increasing stable, should you be worried about what the company does with your personal data?
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Jul 03, 09
Two recent and unrelated cases this month involved the unlawful access to private medical records and the posting of them on the internet on MySpace in order to inflict pain in the prosecution of family feuds.
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Jul 03, 09
Focusing on that relationship in this context did not make sense. MySpace didn’t have anything to do with this other than being a passive intermediary. Why should the inquiry at trial have gone to those kinds of questions? Why should the intermediary have been bothered? It shouldn’t have.
The bad act was (I guess we have to again say “allegedly was” now that she’s been acquitted) between Lori Drew and Megan Meier. That’s the space where the factual focus and legal analysis belonged. Not in the legal relationship between Lori Drew and MySpace. -
Jul 03, 09
Posting private information on a publicly accessible Internet website satisfies the publicity element of an invasion-of-privacy claim.
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Jul 01, 10
"Among the unsettling findings, 69 percent of 13- to 17-year-olds have included their physical locations on the social networking status updates; 28 percent chat with people they don't know; 43 percent revealed their first name; 24 percent, their email address; 18 percent, a photo of themselves; and 12 percent, their cell phone numbers. More than 15 percent of 13- to 15-year-old girls shared a physical description of themselves."
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